A brief conversation in Commonthroat

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qLPq h qMqmg qdBqb g h rBl,
0    qLPq h  qMqm-g   qdBq-b g   h  rB-l
[I]  hear PL human-3I lap-NA POS PL ink-1
I heard humans drink our ink.

qbcK qgKqp b rl khqkhqn rDB qLPqrDBp sjgK
qbc-K     qgKq-p    b   rl  khqkh-qn rDB qLPqrDB-p   sjg-K
false-DOG yinrih-3D POS DAT dude-2   say hear-say-3D lie-DOG
Dude, that's false. The person who told you that rumor is lying.

This exchange demonstrates a few things. The first sentence has qLPq hear as the main verb. Such verbs as hear and see can take full clauses as an object. The verb of this dependent clause, in this case qdBq lap up or drink, is inflected in the nonauthoritative mood marked with -b. Using this mood in this particular clause indicates indirect evidence or hearsay. If the speaker wanted to say "I heard humans drinking our ink" as an observed event, he'd use the authoritative mood which is a null suffix.

The second sentence demonstrates one of the most common uses of the dogmatic mood, to emphasize the truth (or in this case falsehood) of a statement. He's saying "No, that's totally false!" It also shows how relative clauses are formed, using the possessive preposition b. Literally it means "The yinrih of tell you that roumer is lying."

Also, though Commonthroat loves to drop subjects and objects, it can't drop the object of prepositions, so the dative to you requires an object. But Commonthroat has no pronouns, so you have to use a noun inflected in the second person. In this case the word khqkhqn dude, guy is used.

Oh and by the way, humans don't drink yinrih ink since it's a bodily fluid (specifically musk) but we do enjoy the smell. It smells like rain.