puṯu
See also: putu
Pitjantjatjara
Adverb
puṯu
- unsuccessfully, in vain
- 2010, Re-awakening Languages: Theory and Practice in the Revitalisation of Australia's Indigenous Languages, Sydney University Press, 2010, p. 85:
- Mungaṯu nyangangku katjangku wangkangu, Ngunytjimalu wangkangu, "Maḻu anytjapiri mantjila", ka tjitji kutju kunyu puṯu kuliningi, "Nyaa, nyaa?" Puṯu alatjitu kuliningi anytjapiri.
- Recently this person's son was saying, Ngunytjima was saying, "Get some whole kangaroo", and that child [to whom he was speaking] apparently couldn't understand [literally "unsuccessfully understood"], [saying] "What, what?" He couldn't understand anytjapiri at all.
- Mungaṯu nyangangku katjangku wangkangu, Ngunytjimalu wangkangu, "Maḻu anytjapiri mantjila", ka tjitji kutju kunyu puṯu kuliningi, "Nyaa, nyaa?" Puṯu alatjitu kuliningi anytjapiri.
- 2010, Re-awakening Languages: Theory and Practice in the Revitalisation of Australia's Indigenous Languages, Sydney University Press, 2010, p. 85:
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