mooz/мұз/ice

A line by line translation and grammatical notation of Mooz/Мұз/Ice by Ninety One. Below you will see a series of what are called 'glosses', a linguistic term to describe breaking down a sentence into its constituent parts and identifying grammatical properties of each word. As the reader, you should use this as a guide to see what exactly each word is doing in each sentence.

The glosses consist of four lines:

• Kazakh
• Linguistic break down
• English translation from the YouTube video
• My English translation

You can learn more by reviewing some of the terminology found on the webpage for the Leipzig Glossing Rules.

After each gloss will be additional notes on the grammatical items at play.

Enjoy!

References

These resources were invaluable in helping figure out and confirm the sometimes subtle meanings and usages of the lyrics. They are ordered by perceived usefulness. Abbreviations used in the glosses are given in bold before the citation.

Grammars

• RW Kazakh: A Comprehensive Grammar by Raihan Muhamedowa, Routledge 2016.
• KK Kazakh (Qazaq-) Grammatical Sketch with Affix List by Karl A. Krippes, Hieroglyphic Press 1993, accessed online.
• Engime «Кәсіби қазақ тілі» пәнін оқыту-әдістемелік кешен, Engime.org 2016.
• AM A Learner's Dictionary of Kazakh Idioms by Akmaral Mukan, Georgetown University Press 2012.

Dictionaries

• KP Knowledge Partners Dictionary, online.
• 30k 30000 word KZ-EN/EN-KZ dictionary, Аруна 2015.
• sozdik.kz sozdik.kz, online.

Miscellaneous

• MEREY Merey I., Personal Communication, WhatsApp 2017.

Grammar Points

In order to keep the size of this page reasonable, I have moved most of the information on declensions to another work-in-progress page. Commonly seen declensions and conjugations are listed below, singular usage will be inline under the appropriate gloss. Within the notes for each gloss, some of the Kazakh may be written variously in capitals, like ГАн. This indicates that Г and А will change based on the consonants and vowels the word they are attached to (this is called consonant assimilation and vowel harmony, respectively).

accusative (ACC)

object of a verb

converb (CONV)

the converb is a marker to indicate that the verb in question is modified by an auxiliary to the main verb which supplies information like aspect (how a verb functions relative to time)

dative (DAT)

the indirect object of the verb, e.g. to whom/what

genitive (GEN)

possessor of something marked with the posessive

imperativeRM §1.3.5, 26 (IMP)

verbal mood that indicates commands ('Clean your room!')

instrumental (INST)

the noun with which the verb is performed

locative (LOC)

the location of a clause (e.g in my mind)

possessive (POSS)

a noun possessed by another noun, commonly used in other grammatical functions

present tense (PRS)

the verb is either currently going on or will happen in the future

Full Text

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Сонымен, білемін əркімнің таңдауы бар,
Ал менде арман бар,
Солай де, білемін сенің де таңдауың бар,
сенде арман бар

Сенбеген таптайды, сен құлағанда тайып,
Болмайды олай!
Білмеймін кім қандай,
Бірақ сенуге əрдайым мендік жүрек дайын!

Неге бəрі мұз?
Неге бəрі мұз?
Мүмкін күн шыққанға дейін, бірге күте тұрамыз?
Мүмкін күн шыққанға дейін, бірге күте тұрамыз?

Жоқ шекаралар, ол сенің миыңдағы мекендерде бар тек.
Оу, мен кеткен едім үйлеріңнен: «тар» деп,
Енді қарамаймын терезеден,
Алаңдамаймын:»уайым іштен келмесе» деп,
Қысымынан құлаймын көздерінің,
Немесе, мен оны байқамаймын қиялымен теңесе де,
Көре алмаған сайын, алыстаймын екі есе мен,
Сен іш дайындаған «шайыңды» «кесемен»!

(Сонымен?)
Сонымен, бəрі ойдағыдай, берілмеймін оңай.
(Солай де…)
Солай, иə
Бəрі ойдағыдай, берілме оңай!

Сенбеген таптайды, сен құлағанда тайып,
Болмайды олай!
Білмеймін кім қандай,
Бірақ сенуге əрдайым мендік жүрек дайын!

Неге бəрі мұз?
Неге бəрі мұз?
Мүмкін күн шыққанға дейін, бірге күте тұрамыз?
Мүмкін күн шыққанға дейін, бірге күте тұрамыз?

Анам айтатын маған:»тізеңді құшақтама» деп,
Ал мен түсінбей тұрмын, не үшін солай отырғанымды əлі…
Бөтен бе бəрі? Бір күннің астында бөтен бе бəрі?
Əлемде расында бөтен бе бəрі?
Ай ай ай, жалғасса əрі, шынайы бақыттың жоғалды мəні! Ай ай ай ай

Ай ай солай иə, Ай ай солай иə
Ай ай ай ай
Ай ай солай иə, Ай ай солай иə
Ай ай ай ай

When you feel alone,
You can breath with the world
Just keep our rhythm,
One love, one rhythm.
So if you feel alone,
You can breath with the world
Just keep our rhythm,
One love, one rhythm.
One love, one rhythm.

Glosses

• This sentence uses a nonfinite noun clause, i.e the "that" in the phrase "know that". These types of clauses are marked with either +ГАн, +АтІн, or +у.RW §1.5.1 In this case, it's marked with +у, represented by VN, as it is the verbal noun marker.
• Within the clause, there is an existential sentence, using the GEN + POSS form to mark the subject and object, respectively.RW 4

• Similar to above, this is an existential sentence, but instead it uses the locative to indicate the dream's existence.RW 4

• See line 1.

• See line 2. There is no explicit "and" in the Kazakh.

• сенбеген is marked as a headless relative clause, using +ГАн, thus it has no explicit subject.RW §1.6.4
• +ГАндА is a method of expressing a temporal relationship between clauses, in this case, between the trampling and the falling clause.RW 48 Because the subordinate clause (falling) is telic (completed) and punctual, the main event (trampling) occurs after the subordinate clause is complete.RW 50
• таю:to slip, verbs whose stems end in й are spelled with +ю rather than +у in the dictionary form.MEREY
• +Іп adverbializes the verb, thus тайып:slippingly.RW 256

• A verb noun plus the dative indicates a nonfinite purposive clause, i.e. "for the purpose of verbing".RW §1.11
• əрдайым:ready is also given as "pretty often" or "more often than note", but neither of those are as inspiring.
• +ЛІк is a denominalizerRW §2.11.1 that has a variety of uses, none of which seem to indicate the possessive relationship that meaning "my heart" would expect. From sozdik.kz, one of the definitons is свойственно только мне, more or less "mine alone". I think it is being used here to express a more personal ownership than what the possessive pronoun might indicate (one of the examples given is мендік бол:my soul.)

• This is the title of our song! All of the dictionaries give "ice", so the "coldness" of the given English translation appears to be figurative.

• мүмкін:maybeRW §1.2.5
• +ГАндА дейін expresses posteriority.RW §1.8.5 Thus, the sun coming out occurs after the action. This phrase is given in an example RW.
• (І)п + тұр-:delimitive, an action that is performed to a definite limit.RW 127

• дағы is the "locative adjectival" affix,KK but knowing that alone doesn't really describe what it's used for. A site on using computers in Kazakh translates it as indicating "the one that is/belongs", thus "the place that is in your brain".Engime

• үйлерің is not indicating "houses", but rather "your.(polite) house".
• е is an irregular verb from which auxilaries are formedKP. KK lists еді as the 3SG.PST of етіс and RW has едім attested for on page 175.
• The past tense modifier -ДІ indicates "anterior events that are presented as a whole"RW 176, implying that the leaving and saying "it's cramped" is the entirety of the past event.
• The ablative is used to describe an action way from, e.g. left (away) from your house.

• Literally, «уайым іштен келмесе» is something more like "Grief/woe couldn't come from my stomach", but since "from my stomach" is a common Kazakh idomatic structure,AM I translated it as an idiom.

• I'm pretty sure that нан here is the ablative, but I would have expected дан instead. That said, if it is the ablative, then it's likely the usage of the ablative as the "adverbial of cause",RW 229 indicating that "the pressure of your eye" (i.e. judgement) will cause me to fail.

• теңеу:to equalize with is given in the dictionaries, but "correspond to" words better with "imagination".
• The use of -сА + ДА marks a finite concessive clause, that is, a condition that occurs in contrast to the subordinate clause: "although ...-сА + ДА, XYZ happens"RW §1.10.
• The English and the Kazakh differ here (plus the previous sentence) in the number of adjectives. Putting on my critical-lens cap, it seems to imply NinetyOne is trying to walk a fine line between not succumbing to societal pressures either negative or positive. The other option is that I got the grammar wrong and the negatives corresond to the English translation as expected.

• есе:portion, share and екі:two, thus "twofold".
• көре алмаған:to be enviousRW §1.15.5

• іш could mean "inside" or the impartive of "to drink" (ішу). Since the imparative doesn't really work here, I think it's "inside".
• кесе is a traditional tea drinking bowl.
• I don't know why the lyrics use quotation marks.

• -АтІн marks the habitual past tense.RW 179

• -А тұр is used to indicate that the action is not done for the momentRW Pers. Comm., i.e. "I do not understand for the moment".
• үшін:for is a post-position that follows verbs or verbal nouns
• -ҒАН is also used to indicate nonfinite noun clauses, which "function as the object of transitive verbs".RW §1.5.1

• бөтен:describing a person who is considered foreign, alien, or deemed an oursider, or strangerKP
• бәрі:all, everyoneRW 249
• МА, given here as бе is a question particle, indicating the phrase is a question.
• Possesive marked postpositions (аст in this case) are used to express a temporal relationship between the GEN marked noun. Thus, күннің астында is the time one is "under the sun".RW 260

• əрі:there refers to the state of the world in the line preceding.

Last Updated: 2018-01-22 20:58:42