# Sônnavend ja sôndag — The Weekend

*Daily-life prose stretch II under `college/DAILY-LIFE-BRIEF.md` — the same narrator as
`daily-life-workday.md`, off the clock: errands and money, the house, the beach, guests and music,
and the slow Sunday. Play is where a language shows its warmth registers; errands are where it
shows its numbers. Canon-only (v5.77); gaps harvested below.*

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**1 · Sônnavend, matī — the errands.**

> Sônnavendôl mä magā kuni klôk deveñç — nagu kuning! Tôl turgôlô. Mä komprā pat, vôidôt, kalāt,
> ja kōk läpxôs per. Kôg maksā elva rā; mä maksā dünak ja sāmā jedôn drobô. Komprāji tēdô män:
> "Moin! Samā nagu alatü?" — "Samā nagu alatü."

> On Saturday I sleep till nine — like a king! Then to the market. I buy bread, some butter, some
> fish, and a cake for the kid. It all comes to eleven rā; I pay with a twelve and get one back
> in change. The stallholder knows me: "Morning! Same as always?" — "Same as always."

**2 · Kōtôl — the house has its own list.**

> Kōtôl naisô jubā tȫdô: tä pesä klamôtôd ja finestôd, mä panā kambôrd ôigus. Läpx "abī": tä
> kōrrô ümbär ja kantā. Lôunāl mēg küpsā kōkôn — läpx panā liig magūsūt, muidū.

> At home the wife's already at it: she washes the clothes and the windows, I put the rooms
> right. The kid "helps": runs around and sings. At midday we bake the cake — the kid puts in
> too much sweet, of course.

**3 · Strāndôl — the sea is free.**

> Pǟrast mēg kǟvô strāndôlô. Sol! Lopõks! Mer um kylm, agā läpx vōigā nagu kalā; mä vōigā hetk
> ja tôl istā rāndôl. Naisô lugē; mä nǟgô lainôd, ja makā midagü. Se um se: makā midagü, kôg pǟvô.
> Sellü tȫ mä volē elkü pǟvô.

> Afterward we walk to the beach. Sun! At last! The sea is cold, but the kid swims like a fish;
> I swim for a moment and then sit on the shore. The wife reads; I watch the waves and do nothing.
> That's the whole thing: doing nothing, all day. That's the job I'd take every day.

**4 · Vespôrôl — guests, music, the long table.**

> Vespôrôl tulē külalüd: nabôr, dva amīkôd, ja vana talçāji, ken parlā liig mult agā tēdô kôgõn.
> Mēg sȫ, jōdô olūtôt ja vīt. Amīk spēlā instrumentôn, naisô kantā vana kançōn, ja lopõks kôg
> kantā — mal, agā rôimõ. Läpx dansā kuni tä langô. "Skōl!" — "Skōl!" Havs tulē tard.

> In the evening the guests come: the neighbor, two friends, and the old teacher who talks too
> much but knows everything. We eat, we drink beer and wine. A friend plays, the wife sings an
> old song, and by the end everyone's singing — not *correctly*, but happily. The kid dances till
> she drops. "Cheers!" — "Cheers!" Good-night comes late.

**5 · Sôndag — the slow day.**

> Sôndag um lent pǟvô, ja se um ses tȫ: lent um. Kafē, pa, vaikõ kōt. Mä lugē; läpx pēlā
> etāxôl. Pǟrast lôunāt mä kǟvô rāndôlô, vana nabôrôk: tä kalāstā, mä istā. "Sāmā miskü?" —
> "Midagü. Agā se äb um se." Mēg istā kuni vespôr.

> Sunday is a slow day, and that's its job: being slow. Coffee, bread, a quiet house. I read; the
> kid plays on the floor. After lunch I walk to the shore with the old neighbor: he fishes, I sit.
> "Getting anything?" — "Nothing. But that's not the point." We sit till evening.

**6 · Ja tôl — mōndag.**

> Vespôrôl mä valmistā klamôtôd demās per. Nixō: mōndag tulē, muidū. Agā nū
> kōt um vaikõ, läpx magā, ja mēg istā veel hetk. "Jôvā vekk?" dī naisô. "Jôvā vekk." Se um kôg,
> ja se piisā.

> In the evening I lay out clothes for tomorrow. Anyway: Monday's coming, of course. But right now
> the house is quiet, the kid's asleep, and we sit a moment longer. "A good week?" says the wife.
> "A good week." That's all, and it's enough.

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## What the weekend exercises

- **Money in dozenal, in passing:** *elva rā; maksā dünak* "pay with a twelve" (comitative *-k*
  as instrument), *jedôn drobô* "one back in change" — the base-12 economy working in a market
  sentence, no ceremony.
- **The benefactive, now canon:** *kōk läpxôs per* "a cake for the kid" (§1) and *klamôt demās
  per* "clothes for tomorrow" (§6) — the postposition **per** (`../coursebook/` Part One) takes
  the linking **-s** and marks the intended recipient, cleanly distinct from *eest* "in exchange
  for." An earlier draft dodged this hole; the ruling filled it.
- **do/make and bad, now canon:** *makā midagü* "do nothing" (§3) and *kantā mal* "sing badly"
  (§4) — the general verb **makā** and the evaluative **mal** (the missing pole of *jôvā*) landed
  in the same ruling. The language can now answer *Mis sä makā?* "what are you doing?"
- **Warmth registers:** *nagu kuning* (like a king), *nagu kalā* (like a fish), *mal agā rôimõ*
  (badly but happily), *kuni tä langô* (till she drops), *se piisā* (it's enough) — small-scale
  figurative language, no coinage.
- **The play and house lexicons hold:** *spēlā instrumentôn, kantā kançōn, dansā, pēlā, vōigā,
  kalāstā, skōl* for leisure; *pesä* (wash), *etāxô* (floor), *vī* (wine), *finest, kambôr,
  kōk* for the home — all already canon.

## Gap-list (updated — the ruling that followed this text closed the top three)

| # | Gap | Where it pinched | Status |
|---|:---|:---|:---|
| 1 | **benefactive "for"** | §1 *kōk läpxôs per*; §6 *klamôt demās per* | ✅ **CLOSED** — postposition **per** (+ linking *-s*), distinct from *eest* |
| 2 | **"to do / make"** | §3 *makā midagü* "do nothing" | ✅ **CLOSED** — **makā** (Low German *maken*) |
| 3 | **"bad / badly"** | §4 *kantā mal* "sing badly" | ✅ **CLOSED** — **mal** (Romance *mal*), invariant adj./adv. |
| 4 | **"to rest / take rest"** | §3 said it by picture (*makā midagü* "do nothing") | ⟨open — or bless the idiom and skip the verb⟩ |
| 5 | **"like/love (a thing)"** | §3 *sellü tȫ mä volē* (want) | ⟨open — the affection verb for things vs people⟩ |
| 6 | **"weekend" as a word** | the title still says *sônnavend ja sôndag* | ⟨open — compound needs an "end" noun ruling first⟩ |

*Register: metrolect. This was the text that surfaced the benefactive, do/make, and bad/badly holes;
the fills above are now in the coursebook, and the prose has been updated to use them — the corpus
and the dictionary moving together. Companion pieces: `daily-life-workday.md` (I), this (II),
`school-morning.md`, `doctor-visit.md`.*