| Part of Speech | preposition |
| Phonetic Form | teve |
| Variant Form(s) | tev‘ |
| Tanema Equivalent | ao |
| Lovono Equivalent | wate |
| Morphology | Cf. tevie ‘side’ |
| Syntactic Restriction | foll. by Directional |
Example 2433:
Apali pon ka i-vilu i-le tev' iu re!That child ran away in that (upward) direction!
Example 2436:
Ie da viñevi tev' tawo, ka ie da penuo tev' iu.The [house] for women is downward, the one for men is upward.
Example 855:
Mwaliko iape i-romo emel' iape i-wene teve iawo.The man saw his wife lying by the fire.
- Example URL
- https://doi.org/10.24397/pangloss-0003353#S14
| Typical Subject | s.o. |
Example 849:
Laperus i-ka tev’ kiapa ne kulumoe iakapa Vanikoro.Lapérouse came among us, in our island of Vanikoro.
| Syntactic Restriction | after existential verb |
| Typical Subject | s.th. |
Example 1111:
Uña ngatene pi-romo na, ngaliko ngatene pe i-ke tev' emel' enone.All those things you're seeing, are things that appeared to my wife.
Example 2437:
Monone adapa kape i-wene teve kia na.Their trunk will remain with you and me.
- Example URL
- https://doi.org/10.24397/pangloss-0003269#S12
Example 2438:
A-rom, na vilo engaiote! Vilo pon i-vio teve kiapa tae.Look at this strange plant! We don't have it (in our island). [lit. That plant doesn't exist with us.]
- Example URL
- https://doi.org/10.24397/pangloss-0003353#S25
Example 281:
Awa ene ni-ko ne-sava teve teliki.I want to buy it from the chief.
Example 859:
Li-le li-wamabu teve ai’ iape me ete iape.They went to ask (permission) from her parents.
Example 882:
Bwara le-ko le-watebo iepiene teve uña dapa wopine.We should rather enquire about those traditional stories from the elders.
Example 1436:
Iepiene pon na, ni-lengi tev' et' one.This story, I heard it from my mother.
| Syntactic Restriction | after some stative predicates |
| (Part of) Antonym (for) |
Example 2439:
vitoko teve eneclose to me
Example 2440:
Nganae li-ko li-ajau, na i-wene moli teve dapa.Everything they wanted to do ended up being easy to them.
Example 2441:
Ni-romo viko i-aiae teve ene.I realise that money is a problem for me.
Example 2442:
Tev’ eo!It's up to you!
- Example Comment
- predicative
| Sense Comment | rare |
Example 905:
Tae, ini tae. Iote teve.No, it's not her. It's someone else. [lit. another one from her]
- Example Comment
- predicate