pau¹ pay something back; pay something off

Part of Speech

vt

• • pay something back; pay something off
  • • economics
    • social interaction

  • • Example 1287:
      

      mene pau bona maa meha dinao vaa tea Circuit

      to pay off some other debts of the Circuit

      Source: Rum 01R 213

    • Example 5465:
      

      A haihai tean saka antee haa nom naa tea pau.

      I cannot repay your help.

      Source: SiiSen 01W 069

    • Example 5466:
      

      Enam na pau amaa moonii to gono maa roho nam tere bubuu.

      We repayed all the money that we had got from the grandparents.

      Source: VaaSen 01W 423

Related entries

• See also:
  • dinao¹ debts
  • vapaupau exchange something
  • paupau change many things
  • tapatapau change (said of many things); exchange things
  • tapau¹ change by itself; be exchanged
  • vapaupau mi exchange something with someone