pakupaku habitually do something; make something (form something) / [...]

Part of Speech vt/vd
Variant Form(s) papaku
Morphology paku-paku
Gloss RED-do
    • habitually do something; make something (form something)
      • unclassified
      • Example 286:
        O araa na pakupaku raara bono kururu vai o manoto.
        The fishing rod is made from mature kururu bamboo. (lit. The fishing rod, we make from mature kururu bamboo.)
        Source: Eno 16W 007
      • Example 5325:
        ahiki, a nahu kasuana na pakupaku roho a moon vaa nabunuu bono kasuana.
        no, clay pots were made by the woman of former times from clay.
        Source: Iar 02RG 030-031
      • Example 5326:
        E iaa a moon a pakupaku taba.
        Mum was a woman doing many things.
        Source: Sii 01R(Sii) 423
      • Example 5327:
        e sinanae vai na pakupaku bata bona matapaku vai saka mataa haana.
        his mother was behaving in a way that was not good. (lit. was doing a practice not (being) good)
        Source: Nan 03R 022
      • Example 5328:
        Pakupaku tamuana vo teebona.
        (They) always did (it) like this.
        Source: Mom 01R 102
      • Example 5329:
        Enaa he teitei vaan, a skul na pakupaku ori.
        When I lived in the village, they conducted school.
        Source: Pur 01R(Pur) 005-006
    • affect someone
      • Example 5330:
        mea maa sii vahara kamis vai to pakupaku bata bona
        and minor sicknesses affected him
        Source: Sii 01R(Sii) 195

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  • See also:
    • paku2 make something; make something from something; make something into something