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Teanu dictionary (Solomon Islands): Example 1521
Word senses:
~maliawo
make a fire
~mamei
feel cold, shiver with cold
ponu
clause topicalizer: marks a clause as backgrounded, before introducing a foregrounded main clause; hence ‘since X…, Y’, or ‘as X…, Y’, or ‘X…, then Y’
Ka i-mamei ponu ka i-maliawo ka i-wene teve.
As she was feeling cold, she lit a fire and lied down beside it.
Example URL
https://doi.org/10.24397/pangloss-0003353#S13
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Teanu dictionary (Solomon Islands)
by
Alexandre François
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