skin and bones lū ja nǭ’gõ
Every bone hurts. [~All bones hurt.] Amād lūd pȯ’ddõbõd.
It is not the sort of job that breaks [one's] bones. Se ä’b ūo mingi lūd murdtõb tīe.
He is sitting with [~behind] a book. Ta istāb rǭntõ tagān.
He only spends time with books. [~He sits only by books.] Ta istāb rǭntõd jūsõ set.
A lout is sort of dull-witted who does not know or understand anything. Lemp u’m seļļi sangdõ, kis midāgõst ä’b tīeda un ä’b mūošta.
Such a wasteful person, [someone] who wastes his/her life away, who does not keep track of [~does not calculate] anything. Seļļi plindõrmaņ, kis plīndartõb eņtš jelāmiz jarā, kis midāgõst ä’b rēk.
