Part of Speech | numeral |
Phonetic Form | june |
Tanema Equivalent | omwano |
Lovono Equivalent | tilioko |
Syntactic Restriction | when counting or measuring |
Example 942:
Ni-nabe jokoro lea iune ka kula.I measured the bamboo to be one fathom and a half.
Example 943:
uie kwate tamana iunepage thirty one
Example 944:
rea iune tamana iuneone hundred and one
Example 945:
wik iune pioteone full week
Example 946:
Ka metele iune pon!Alright, it's been one moon!
- Example URL
- https://doi.org/10.24397/pangloss-0003351#S148
Example 947:
La-te ra ra, bwara kata kape ebieve iune.They stayed there, perhaps a whole year.
- Example URL
- https://doi.org/10.24397/pangloss-0003351#S15
Syntactic Restriction | indefinite value |
Sense Comment | rare |
Encyclopedic Info | Phraseol.: A new singular referent is normally introduced using the ordinary indefinite determiner iote ‘a, an’. |
(Part of) Synonym (for) |
Example 948:
Emele iune, ini da men’ iape, la-te ne kulumoe.[There was once] one woman, with her child, who were living in the village.
Syntactic Restriction | with negation |
Example 949:
Li-bu awoiu. Iune i-te tae.Everybody died: nobody survived. [lit. a single one wasn't there]
- Example URL
- https://doi.org/10.24397/pangloss-0003352#S117
Example 950:
Vesepiene iune, i-vete ngatene tilu.It is the same word, but with two distinct meanings.