Step 10 - Commands

Covers: 14a 14b

inkatan inkatan - memory, nostalgia, remember, reminiscent
pawole pawole - infinite, uncountable, unbounded, free
jasima jasima - mirror, reflection, opposite
talika talika - list, chart, table, series
tijan tijan - attention, focused, attentive
meta meta - ego, egotistic, proud, self referential
kajasa kajasa - specific, exact, precise
ojana ojana - vague, mysterious, ambiguous, broad
kanpe kanpe - shake, wiggle, vibrate, vibration
poka poka - hip, side, area next to, nearby
kake kake - result, effect, result in

sipaja sipaja - lost, losing, lose, defeat
wisaja wisaja - victorious, winning

kikolo kikolo - bitter, acrid
lete lete - milk, dairy, cheese, ice cream
lowo lowo - raccoons, coatis, kinkajous, olingos
lisi lisi - rice, beans, corn, lentils

To say you forgot, or you cant remember, you can say:

mi ken no inkatan

I can't remember.

Or alternatively:

inkatan mi e weka

My memory is gone.

Commands are the 4th and last type of sentence in English, and instead of giving information like statements or asking for information like questions, they give instructions to get something done. The command particle in Toki Pawole is o.

Replace (or insert) o in the place of li (or its versions) or, e to change the sentence to a command.

si li kanpe

You are shaking.

si o kanpe

You, shake.

The subject becomes the recipient of the command, and what comes after becomes the instructions.

si o notuwan e osa ni in ni

You, place that peice in there.

There are 3 ways you can use o. There's the vocative, for when you're trying to get someones attention:

ami o!

ami o

Friend! (Trying to get their attention.)

moku ni li peson nun

This food needs salt.

With all that out of the way, see if you can follow this conversation between two people. Click on spoilers to reveal how I translated sentences. (Remember that Toki Pawole sentences can mean a wide variety of different things, so it doesn't matter if your translations aren't exact.)

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seme ante ala wetu tuntan weson

mun epiku inku inpali isala janwa

jesen keke kita mani lon misa

mu tana munkin namako notuwan nun

oliwa powe sawan sawapu wawasa soko

In this step, we went over 18 new words, in total that's 284 out of 312 Toki Pawole words, and next, we'll introduce 3 new ones!

(Next is Step 11 - Context)

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