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pe ive?
why?
Part of Speech
interrogative
why?
Literally
because it's why?
Syntactic Restriction
clause-final
(Part of) Synonym (for)
pe i-kae?
Example 976:
Eo a-mokoiu ai-ovili pe ive?
Why are you sleeping so late?
Related entries
Contains:
ive
interrogative verb enquiring about a whole situation / what happens? what's up? how's things? / what? Used when the speaker looks for his words to describe a whole event / (be) why? / what's up with ‹s.o., s.th.›?
Dictionary
Teanu dictionary (Solomon Islands)
by
Alexandre François
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