VOCABULARY
ilo - tool, device, machine jo - to have; ownership, possession kili - any fruit or vegetable lukin - to see, to look at; vision, sight ni - this, that pakala - destroy, mess up,; accident ale - everything,all unpa - have sex with; sex; sexual pipi - insect, spider, bug wile - to want, to need, to have to; desire ma - land, country, region, outside area
GRAMMAR TIP
The use of li Phrases such as mi moku can have two potential meanings: I'm eating or I am food. There is one way to specify that you want to say I'm eating versus I am food. Observe: kili = fruit mi moku = I am eating - I eat mi moku e kili = I eat fruit. Sentences with mi or sina as the subject In Toki Pona there is no form of the verb to be, so, the basic sentence is: mi pona = I am good sina suli = You are tall Simply mi or sina and complete the sentence with a verb or adjective.
Sentences without mi or sina as the subject use LI to separate a 3rd person subject from its verb
mi moku > I drink sina suli > You are tall ona li suli -> She is tall ona li moku -> He drinks
ona li lukin = He watchs - He is watching ona li lukin e pipi = He's watching the spider. ona moku e kili = He eats fruit
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