kukan three

Part of Speech numeral
    • three
      • quantification
      • Example 2076:
        Bea aba rahi maa bona hinae, eove repaa rom kukan bona, hee ri bona naba bebeera vaa vaan, eori repaa ani bari.
        When someone angles a seaperch, he cuts it into three pieces, and gives them to the chiefs of the village to eat.
        Source: Sii 42W 021-022
      • Example 2396:
        Gagai bono kukan o vuri teo peho bon.
        Drink it three times a day.
        Source: Sii 31W 082
      • Example 3856:
        Hua nao ta kukan ta otei!
        Paddle there, three men!
        Source: Aro 15R 126
      • Example 3857:
        A kukan a beiko vai paa bebeera mau.
        These three children had grown up now.
        Source: Sii 07W 011
      • Example 3858:
        O kukan o vinu to sikuuru maa roho naa teebona.
        Three years I went to school there.
        Source: Tav 01E(Joy) 052
      • Example 3859:
        ... meve paa mate kahi bona, evehee kukan sivao nana.
        and she died when he was three months old. (lit. died leaving him, but was three months)
        Source: Joy 14W 011
      • Example 3860:
        murina maa kukan amaa tookiu
        after every three weeks
        Source: Sii 07W 230
      • Example 3861:
        ... naa ne paa voosu, naa ne paa nao Gaulim Teachers' College bona maa buaku ge amaa kukan amaa bon, ...
        (At other times) I would go home and then go to Gaulim Teachers' College for two or three days ...
        Source: Sii 03R 285-286

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