sanäl (noun): chair, seat, place (at a table); role, position.
- yöser
- able.to
- in-sanäl-i
- my-seat-ACC
- roth
- he
- näderwon
- NEG.find.PERF.PAUS
“he does not deserve a place [at] my [table]”
The noun sanäl is very often encountered in the collocation sanäli derwono, literally ‘find a seating-place’, but often used in the sense of ‘to be welcome’ (especially at a place, or to participate in a discussion). Sometimes, this is accompanied by the adverb yöser ‘able to’, as in the example above.
