Try some reasoning questions that ask you to translate English words into an artificial language. Firstly you will be given a list of three “nonsense” words and their English word meanings. The question that follow will ask you to reverse the process and translate an English word into the artificial language. Your best approach to this type of question is to look for elements (parts) of the “nonsense”words that repeat. This is the best way to translate from the imaginary language to English. For example, if you know that linsmerk means oak tree and linsdennel means oak table, then you know that lins means oak. And, if lins means oak, merk must mean tree, and dennel must mean table. When you discover what a word element means in English, write it down. Then, look for the word elements that appear both on the list answer choices.
1. Here are some words translated from an artificial language.
granamelke means big tree, pinimelke means little tree, melkehoon means tree house
Which word could mean “big house”?
a. granahoon
b. pinishur
c. pinihoon
d. melkegrana
2. Here are some words translated from an artificial language.
lelibroon means yellow hat, plekafroti means flower garden, frotimix means garden salad
Which word could mean “yellow flower”?
a. lelifroti
b. lelipleka
c. plekabroon
d. frotibroon
3. Here are some words translated from an artificial language.
moolokarn means blue sky, wilkospadi means bicycle race, moolowilko means blue bicycle
Which word could mean “racecar”?
a. wilkozwet
b. spadiwilko
c. moolobreil
d. spadivolo
4. Here are some words translated from an artificial language.
daftafoni means advisement, imodafta means misadvise, imolokti means misconduct
Which word could mean “statement”?
a. kratafoni
b. kratadafta
c. loktifoni
d. daftaimo
5. Here are some words translated from an artificial language.
dionot means oak tree, blyonot means oak leaf, blycrin means maple leaf
Which word could mean “maple syrup”?
a. blymuth
b. hupponot
c. patricrin
d. crinweel
6. Here are some words translated from an artificial language.
agnoscrenia means poisonous spider, delanocrenia means poisonous snake, agnosdeery means brown spider
Which word could mean “black widow
spider”?
a. deeryclostagnos
b. agnosdelano
c. agnosvitriblunin
d. trymuttiagnos
7. Here are some words translated from an artificial language.
myncabel means saddle horse, conowir means trail ride, cabelalma means horse blanket
Which word could mean “horse ride”?
a. cabelwir
b. conocabel
c. almamyn
d. conoalma
8. Here are some words translated from an artificial language.
godabim means kidney stones, romzbim means kidney beans, romzbako means wax beans
Which word could mean “wax statue”?
a. godaromz
b. lazbim
c. wasibako
d. romzpeo
9. Here are some words translated from an artificial language.
tamceno means sky blue, cenorax means blue cheese, aplmitl means star bright
Which word could mean “bright sky”?
a. cenotam
b. mitltam
c. raxmitl
d. aplceno
10. Here are some words translated from an artificial language.
gorblflur means fan belt, pixngorbl means ceiling fan, arthtusl means tile roof
Which word could mean “ceiling tile”?
a. gorbltusl
b. flurgorbl
c. arthflur
d. pixnarth
11. Here are some words translated from an artificial language.
hapllesh means cloudburst, srenchoch means pinball, resbosrench means ninepin
Which word could mean “cloud nine”?
a. leshsrench
b. ochhapl
c. haploch
d. haplresbo
12. Here are some words translated from an artificial language.
migenlasan means cupboard, lasanpoen means boardwalk, cuopdansa means pullman
Which word could mean “walkway”?
a. poenmigen
b. cuopeisel
c. lasandansa
d. poenforc
ANSWERS
1. a. Grana means big; melke means tree; pini means little; hoon means house. Therefore, granahoon means big house.
2.b. Leli means yellow; broon means hat; pleka means flower; froti means garden; mix means
salad. Therefore, lelipleka means yellow flower.
3.d. From wilkospadi, you can determine that wilko means bicicyle and spadi means race. Therefore, the first part of the word that means racecar should begin with spadi. That limits your
choices to b and d. Choice b, spadiwilko, is incorrect because we have already determined
that wilko means bicycle. Therefore, the answer must be choice d, spadivolo.
4. a. Dafta means advise; foni is the same as the suffix –ment; imo is the same as the prefix
mis–; lokti means conduct. Since the only word in the answer choices that hasn’t been
defined is krata, it is reasonable to assume that krata means state. Therefore, kratafoni is
the only choice that could mean statement.
5. c. In this language, the adjective follows the noun. From dionot and blyonot, you can determine that onot means oak. From blyonot and blycrin, you can determine that bly means leaf. Therefore, crin means maple. Because the adjective maple comes after the noun, patricrin is the only possible choice.
6. c. In this language, the noun appears first and the adjectives follow. Since agnos means spider and should appear first, choices a and d can be ruled out. Choice b can be ruled out because delano means snake.
7. a. Myn means saddle; cabel means horse; cono means trail; and wir means ride. Therefore,
cabelwir is the correct answer.
8. c. In this language, the adjective follows the noun. From godabim and romzbim, you can determine that bim means kidney. From romzbim and romzbako, you can determine that romz
means beans. Therefore, bako means wax. Because the adjective wax must come after the
noun in this language, wasibako is the only choice.
9.b. Tam means sky; ceno means blue; rax means cheese; apl means star; and mitl means bright. So, mitltam means bright sky.
10.d. Gorbl means fan; flur means belt; pixn means ceiling; arth means tile; and tusl means roof. Therefore, pixnarth is the correct choice.
11.d. Hapl means cloud; lesh means burst; srench means pin; och means ball; and resbo means nine. Leshsrench (choice a) doesn’t contain any of the words needed for cloud nine. We know that och means ball, so that rules out choices b and c. When you combine hapl (cloud) with resbo (nine), you get the correct answer.
12.d. Migen means cup; lasan means board; poen means walk; cuop means pull; and dansa means man. The only possible choices, then, are choices a and d. Choice a can be ruled out
because migen means cup.
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