ngele who / er – / someone; anyone

Part of Speech interrogative
Phonetic Form ŋele
Tanema Equivalent ngela
Lovono Equivalent enge
    • who
    • Syntactic Restriction in questions
      (Part of) Antonym (for)
    • er –
    • Syntactic Restriction when hesitating on s.o.'s name
      Sense Comment freq
      • Example 1966:
        Ka dapa ka li-odo ngele, Laperusi.
        So they went to search for, er, Lapérouse.
    • someone; anyone
    • Syntactic Restriction indefinite
      • Example 1967:
        N-i, ia ni-lengi ngele i-laiaini tae.
        I called out, but I didn't heard anybody reply.

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