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Part of Speech conj
Morphology me
Gloss and4
    • and
      • grammar
      • Comment <me> introduces clauses and sentences that encode subsequent actions and are preceded either by another clause or an adjunct. It functions as the host of articles, pronouns, and the tense-aspect-mood marker <paa> TAM3
      • Example 1824:
        Oro vai o panasu me oro me oro mepaa no hagoro.
        The raft floated now and floated and floated, and it arrived at the beach.
        Source: Aro 15R 115-116
      • Example 4348:
        E mutanae nomaa vai mepaa no ropusu bona subaaka, mepaa no huraka bona.
        His wife came now and went (and) took the flying fox off (the tree) and went (and) gutted it (removed its intestines).
        Source: Aro 11R 046-047
      • Example 4349:
        Tea nubunubu mepaa gono bono taapeau ae o pakoo mepaa peha teo overe, ...
        In the morning (he) got his spear and the club and climbed the coconut palm, ...
        Source: San 01E(Eno) 075

Related entries

  • See also:
    • mean and you (sg,)
    • menaa1 and I
    • mepaa and
    • meve and he, she, or it
    • ae and, conjoining a third coordinand in the case of three coordinands in a single NP / and, conjoining phrases
    • meam1 and you (pl.)
    • meara and we (including you)
    • menam and we (but not you)
    • meno2 and go
    • meori and they
    • murinae2 after that
    • murino after the ...