awoiu pon then, after that

• • then, after that
  • • Disc

  Literally	once it was over
  Sense Comment	freq

  • • Example 2134:
      

      Li-ae kie tepapa i-dadai awoiu pon, li-iu tepapa ene.

      They dug holes for the dancing boards all around (the village area), and then they buried the boards in them.

      Example URL

      https://doi.org/10.24397/pangloss-0003351#S122

    • Example 2135:
      

      Li-vesu iuro; awoiu pon li-avi otovo. Li-kamai li-wete; li-wete awoiu pon li-ejau telemoe. I-su awoiu ponu ponu, i-vete “Wako”.

      They erected the post; after that, they went to pick sago leaves. Brought them, began sewing them; once they had sewn them, they made the roof. Once it was over, he said “Alright!”

      Example Comment

      tail-head linkage

Related entries

• Contains:
  • ponu¹ that, close to or associated with you: 2nd-degree demonstrative, anchored on the addressee / that, mentioned by you or in our dialogue. Points to an easily retrievable referent / definite determiner, referring either to discourse or to shared knowledge / noun-phrase topicalizer / 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’