| Part of Speech | verb-object idiom |
| Literally | fold mats |
| Infobox | Folding away the deadman's mats: At the end of the funeral vigil (~bei bete*), comes the time when we fold the mats away. These are the mats, and the house, of the person who died. So we clean the house, both inside and outside. We collect the garbage (including the mats) and we go throw them in the sea. |
| Infobox (Teanu) | Li-lu bete: Idi le-bei bete awoiu, kape le-lu bete. Bete ka mwoe pon, ie mwaliko pe i-bu. Li-aneve lema mwoe, ka maro. Awoiu, le-loko ajekele le-iui ne revo. |