As you may remember from the first two lessons, sentences normally begin with si-words, the two most common of which are Tasi (meaning "this") and Fasi (meaning "that"). But what if you want to refer to yourself ("I"), the person you're talking to ("you"), or more than one thing? It turns out there's a si-word for each of those cases!
It is believed that the Parseltongue for "I" and "you" is derived from English: my predecessor theorised that snakes did not start referring directly to themselves (or the people they were talking to) until they observed Parselmouths doing so in English. When snakes incorporated these concepts into Parseltongue, they simply took the sounds in English and approximated them as best they could in Parseltongue; just as you did for your own name back in the first lesson!
They ended up with the following: ai for "I" and ou for "you". Just like other si-words, they can start a sentence; the word order of the rest of the sentence does not change.
NOTE: Although snakes do not do this often, you can refer to someone by their name in Parseltongue; if so, the name takes the place of the si-word.
If you want to refer to more than one thing, the easiest way to do so is to use the word for "many", which is sisisisi. When you learn number words in the next lesson, you'll learn that you can also use the exact number of things in place of sisisisi... and that sisisisi is itself a number!
You - ou
I - ai
Many - sisisisi
Examples:
I am cold. Many rats are running.
I cold am. Many rat run.
Ai bana aʃe. Sisisisi kata akaʃe.
Visli'un is a human.
Visli'un human.
Visli'un ʃen.
(NOTE that in the last example, ʃen does not refer to a specific human, but to the general concept of being human; as such, it is used as a na-word instead of as an object! Therefore, it does NOT need a si-word before it.)
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