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6 3. Would you use ol or ols in the following sentences ?: "Are you an American ?" "Will you take seats ?"

4. Read these numbers in Volap&uuml;k: 2, 5, 33, 42, 3, 41, 6, 25, 50, 75, 100, 7, 77, 777. 7777, 8, 18, 6, 99. 15, 13, 64, 51, 84, 77, 333, 1887, 12.

5. Express in Volap&uuml;k, aloud : 5 men (remember the order is 'men five') ; 3 boys ; 12 years ; $20 ; 10 years ; 3 months ; 6 mice. $50 ; 16 houses ; 3000 books ; 100 sheep ; 55 boys ; 32 years and 10 months ; 7 days ; one week ; 30 days, one month ; 365 days ; 12 months ; 52 weeks, one year ; $2769.

6. Read aloud, thinking of the meaning, Mans bals ; gan bal ; obs ; muls kil ; doms fol ; yels baltum ; jips tel ; mugs z&uuml;l ; doabs balsetel ; buks teltum ; muls balsetel ; yel bal ; dels kiltum m&auml;lselul; yel bal ; ols ; obs tel.

7. Give the English of each of the above phrases.

It is not sufficient to go through these exercises once ; they should be repeated again and again, until they can be spoken with the greatest rapidity.

Each Volap&uuml;k exerclse is to be first read aloud, thinking of the meaning, but not of the English words. Then it should be translated into English, the translation written down and compared with the key. After a time the key should be translated back again and compared with the original. = CASES =

The case endings are the first three vowels, For example, The names of the cases are : „kimfal, kimafal, kimefal, kimifal,“ taken from the cases of kim, with the word „fal,“ meaning "case."

1. The kimfal, who-case or nominativ, is the simple form without any added vowel. It answers the question, "Who ?" It is usually translated by the English nominativ.