| Part of Speech | prep |
| Morphology | ki |
| Gloss | DAT |
| comment | This preposition typically marks an adjunct as referring to an addressee, beneficiary or recipient. But when it is incorporated in the verb complex (VC), these roles are encoded by the primary object. Secondly, it marks pronominal objects of the first and second person that depend on a verb complex marked by the applicative <ni> or the incorporated preposition <mi> 'with'. Thirdly it is used in a special kind of comparative construction, see <vaarutaa ki> |
Example 1260:
Me teiee to paa dee ki mau vuan bona?And who gave it to you?
- Source:
- Aro 11E(Eno) 066
Example 3332:
e sinanae paa sue ki bona, "Gaagin, ..."his mother said to him, "Gaagin, ..."
- Source:
- Aro 05R 078
Example 3333:
Mea sii beiko paa sue ki maa bona, "..."And the child said to him, "..."
- Source:
- Nan 03E(Eno) 167
Example 3334:
me vaanoto vai mepaa nahunahu vai ki bene sinanae,and (she) lit (the fire) and cooked for her mother
- Source:
- Aro 06R 022-023