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# Fixed Expressions
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| Purpose | English | Hàäsdáïga literal translation[^1] |
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| Greeting | Hello | |
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| Apologize | Sorry | I hope that you me.acc forgive.sub.fut |
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| Express sympathy | Sorry | |
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[^1]: For the sake of simplicity and generality, only noun cases (if not
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nominative) and verb mood (if not indicative) is used.
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# Proper name and translation
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## Given name gender
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As a tradition, ancient Gaidaanan people gave names to newborns based with
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gender based on the month of the year, as did people during the story
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timeline. This is obvious with Hàäsdáïga month names, but it is not that
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transparent to use in our world, which use 12 months in both solar and lunar
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calendar (I am not aware of any other calendar system). For that reason, I
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propose that we instead decide based on lunar months:
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- Wood if the person is born from month 1-3
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- Fire if the person is born from month 4-6
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- Metal if the person is born from month 7-9
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- Water if the person is born from month 10-12
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This corresponds to the four seasons. Optionally, people born in month 6 or 7
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can be assigned gender Earth.
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## Family name gender
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Family names usually have meaning. If it is a noun (e.g. Poisson, Rice, Wood,
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Pierre, Lagrange, ...) or adjective (Legrand, Leblanc, Weiss), they carry the
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same gender as that corresponding noun or verb, even if it is not translated.
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If it is a profession, which does not have a default gender, it would
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theoretically be the gender of the first person carrying that name. That is
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however not feasible, so instead it is associated with the thing that
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profession works on. For example, Smith → metal, Gärtner → wood. For names of
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unknown origin (Johnson, James, Nguyễn), just choose the first vowel in the
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name for gender.
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All family names in Hàäsdáïga are nouns, though most people don't use it.
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# Time
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## Months
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In the Gaïdaäna calendar, there are ten months, named after the five phases
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and yin-yang:
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- Yang Wood
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- Yin Wood
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- Yang Fire
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- Yin Fire
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- Yang Earth
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- Yin Earth
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- Yang Metal
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- Yin Metal
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- Yang Water
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- Yin Water
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Colloquially, they are also called by number from 1 to 10.
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