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10 October 2026 · from German · 8 sentences

The Lord's Prayer

Source: Matthew 6:9–13, Luther Bible 1912 (public domain), text from bibel-online.net. The English sentences follow the King James Version (1611, public domain).

Literal: PL = ma, NOT = ne, REQ = vo, NEAR = hi. Compounds with hyphens.

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ma mi sene va lisalafa ma mi, je fale di goka. vo meba tu lavape! vo fela tu gole! vo dura tu nabe di bida si dura je nabe di goka! vo tu beve buga nupa va ma mi di nupa hi! su vo tu nate tama vurali ma mi! ma mi mo nate ma mela je bine po tama vurali va ma mi. su vo tu vukipe ne ma mi va dura vurala, ho tu famene ma mi ko vurala, ke tu bure nalo fela su naka su noba! vo lo mefe!

Unser Vater in dem Himmel! Dein Name werde geheiligt. Dein Reich komme. Dein Wille geschehe auf Erden wie im Himmel. Unser täglich Brot gib uns heute. Und vergib uns unsere Schuld, wie wir unseren Schuldigern vergeben. Und führe uns nicht in Versuchung, sondern erlöse uns von dem Übel. Denn dein ist das Reich und die Kraft und die Herrlichkeit in Ewigkeit. Amen.

Our Father which art in heaven! Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.

Sentence by sentence (8 sentences)

ma mi sene va lisalafa ma mi, je fale di goka.

PL I speak to parent-male PL I, who be-located in sky

Unser Vater in dem Himmel!

Our Father which art in heaven!

Notes (3)
  • The address is paraphrased: “We speak to our Father …” (when speaking: va + the person addressed). A short sentence would not work: it has no verb, but the relative clause brings one with it.
  • An exclamation mark only comes after vo, so a full stop.
  • “In heaven” must not hang directly on the noun (prepositional phrases belong to the sentence), so a relative clause with “be located”.

vo meba tu lavape!

REQ name you holy-be!

Dein Name werde geheiligt.

Hallowed be thy name.

Notes (1)
  • New root: lavapi = holy. The passive is dropped: “Your name shall be holy.”

vo fela tu gole!

REQ power you come!

Dein Reich komme.

Thy kingdom come.

Notes (1)
  • “Kingdom” in the sense of rule = fela (from feli = powerful).

vo dura tu nabe di bida si dura je nabe di goka!

REQ will you happen in world like will which happen in sky!

Dein Wille geschehe auf Erden wie im Himmel.

Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.

Notes (1)
  • si (like) only takes a noun, not a prepositional phrase. “As in heaven” = si dura je nabe di goka (like the will that happens in heaven;). si compares with the subject dura tu, and the relative clause comes at the end of the sentence.

vo tu beve buga nupa va ma mi di nupa hi!

REQ you give bread day to PL I in day NEAR!

Unser täglich Brot gib uns heute.

Give us this day our daily bread.

Notes (2)
  • “Daily” = bread of the day (noun + noun). nupi would mean “like a day”.
  • With vo the subject (tu) stays.

su vo tu nate tama vurali ma mi! ma mi mo nate ma mela je bine po tama vurali va ma mi.

and REQ you forgive thing bad PL I! PL I also forgive PL person who do PST thing bad to PL I

Und vergib uns unsere Schuld, wie wir unseren Schuldigern vergeben.

And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.

Notes (2)
  • “Debts” is paraphrased: our wrongdoing, and that is the object of nate. “Forgive us from our wrongdoing” (ko tama vurali) would not work, because ko without a time noun only means “from, out of”. “Debtors” = the people who have done us wrong.
  • Request and statement are different kinds of sentence, so two sentences. “As we” = ma mi mo (we too).

su vo tu vukipe ne ma mi va dura vurala, ho tu famene ma mi ko vurala, ke tu bure nalo fela su naka su noba!

and REQ you lead NOT PL I to wish bad-thing, but you free-make PL I from bad-thing, because you have always power and strength and beauty

Und führe uns nicht in Versuchung, sondern erlöse uns von dem Übel. Denn dein ist das Reich und die Kraft und die Herrlichkeit in Ewigkeit.

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever.

Notes (6)
  • lead = vu- + follow (vukipe); deliver = set free = free + -en- (famene).
  • “Temptation” = the wish for what is bad (dura vurala); “evil” = what is bad (vurala).
  • “But” = ho after a negated part. The vo at the start also applies to the part with ho.
  • “For” as a ke clause at the end; a sentence must not start with ke.
  • “Glory” = noba (beauty). “For ever” = nalo (always), as an adverb before the object.
  • A list has su between all its members; a comma alone does not separate nouns.

vo lo mefe!

REQ it true-be!

Amen.

Amen.

Notes (1)
  • “Amen” = “So be it”, here: let it be true.