mairamé
Nheengatu
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old Tupi mba'ereme. By surface analysis, maã + ramé.
Adverb
[edit]mairamé
- (interrogative) when
- 2017, Rodrigo Godinho Trevisan, chapter 10, in Tradução comentada da obra Le Petit Prince, de Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, do francês ao nheengatu [Commented translation of the work Le Petit Prince, by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, from French to Nheengatu][1] (overall work in Portuguese, French, and Nheengatu), São Paulo: Universidade de São Paulo, archived from the original on 2024-11-27, line 45:
- – Mairamé taá kwá usika kurí? – upurandú muruxawamirĩ.
- – When will this happen? – asked the little prince.
- (negative) never
Conjunction
[edit]mairamé
- when
- 2017, Rodrigo Godinho Trevisan, chapter 1, in Tradução comentada da obra Le Petit Prince, de Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, do francês ao nheengatu [Commented translation of the work Le Petit Prince, by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, from French to Nheengatu][2] (overall work in Portuguese, French, and Nheengatu), São Paulo: Universidade de São Paulo, archived from the original on 2024-11-27, line 1:
- Mairamé arikú puyepé akayú amaã, yepé ara, yepé sangawa amurupí retana, yepé papera resé kaawasú resewara sera waá Mbeusawa uyusasá ana waá-itá.
- When I was six years old I saw, one day, a very different image, in a book about the virgin forest which had the name Stories That Happened.