jelo - yellow, yellowish
+ laso - blue, green
+ loje - red, reddish
+ pimeja - black, dark, unlit
+ walo - white, whitish; light-coloured, pale
++ there's not really much special to say about colours. i just thought + it'd be a nice break from grammar. +
+soweli jelo pimeja
+~ black and yellow dog
+soweli pi jelo pimeja
+~ dark-yellow dog
+ taso - but, however, only
+ wan - unique, united
+ tu - separate, cut
+ - interacting with the official toki pona book
+ selo - outer form, outer layer; bark, peel, shell, skin; boundary
+ pan - cereal, grain; barley, corn, oat, rice, wheat; bread, pasta
+taso can be used at the start of a sentence to mean "however,"
++ mi la mi pali pona. taso, jan ante la mi pali ike. +
+~ i think i work well. however, other people think i work poorly
+you can also modify words with taso to mean "only"
+mi wile e mani taso
+~ i want only money
+ nanpa - (ordinal number particle); numbers
+ lupa - door, hole, orifice, window
+ namako - embellishment, spice; extra, additional
+ linja - long and flexible thing; cord, hair, rope, thread, yarn
+ akesi - reptile amphibian
+
+ toki pona has three words to describe numbers; wan, tu, mute
+ meaning one, two, many
+
+ the reason it works like this is because counting is unnecessary. often + it is better to explain the quantity in question, rather than reducing + it to a meaningless number. +
+you can use nanpa to express ordinal numbers
+soweli nanpa tu
+~ the second animal
+psst, hey. yeah, you!
++ you feel unsatisfied with this number system? i can tell you about more + number systems. just come with me +
+ nanpa - (ordinal number particle); numbers
+ lupa - door, hole, orifice, window
+ namako - embellishment, spice; extra, additional
+ linja - long and flexible thing; cord, hair, rope, thread, yarn
+ akesi - reptile amphibian
+don't feel like the main counting system is okay, huh?
++ that's okay. i'll give you the forbidden knowledge of more advanced + counting systems. +
++ (but be aware that the reason they're overcomplicated is still because + toki pona is fundamentally anti-nanpa +
+this counting system uses 5 words:
+
+ wan - one
+ tu - two
+ luka - five mute - twenty ale - one hundred
+
+ this counting system is additive, meaning you chain together the words + to create bigger numbers +
+luka luka tu
+~ five + five + two
+= 12
++ ale ale ale ale ale ale ale ale ale ale ale ale ale ale ale ale ale + ale ale ale mute tu +
+~ 2022
++ as you can see, it's still not very convenient for big numbers - this is + the point! +
++ there is yet another system, for extra big numbers. it's the same as the + previous system, except you can multiply ale by putting numbers + before it. +
+mute ale tu
+~ 2022
+ open - begin, start; open; turn on
+ palisa - long hard thing; branch, rod, stick
+ unpa - have sexual relations with
+ noka - foot, leg, organ of locomotion
+ kili - fruit, vegetable, mushroom
+ en - (between additional subjects)
++ to say and, you repeat the particle. for subjects you say the particle + en +
++ this means you repeat en for subjects, li for predicates, + e for direct objects, and repeat the preposition for multiple + preposition phrases. +
++ jan en soweli li tawa li pali kepeken noka kepeken ilo +
++ ~ the person and the dog is walking and working using legs and tools +
+no more vocab, you're done!
+sina pini e lipu sona la nimi sin li lon ala!
++ (i wanna put tips here that i would've liked to know when i first + started learning toki pona but i gotta think of some first or maybe get + some ideas from others or smth idk bare with me) +
+practice, talk to people, have fun!
+ meli - woman, female, feminine person; wife
+ mije - man, male, masculine person; husband
+ kipisi - split, cut, slice, sever; sharp
+ leko - stairs, square, block, corner, cube
+ monsuta - fear, dread; monster, predator; threat, danger
+ soko - fungus, fungi
+ lanpan - take, seize, catch, receive, get
+ misikeke - medicine, medical
++ kijetesantakalu - any animal from the Procyonidae family, such as + raccoons, coatis, kinkajous, olingos, ringtails and cacomistles +
++ n - (indicates thinking, pondering, recognition, agreement, or + humming) +
++ jasima - reflect, resound, mirror, be on the opposite/polar end of +
++ meso - midpoint, medium, mediocre; neither one not the other, neither + fully is nor isn't +
+ ku - interacting with the Toki Pona Dictionary by Sonja Lang
++ my reasoning for excluding these words was to create a compromise + between my own style and pu's style - i use some ku suli, but they + weren't included because they're not pu. pu has meli and + mije, but i don't, so i also didn't include that. +
++ another reason for not including meli and mije is that i + see these words as pretty unnecessary, and beginners often use them far + too much. i just want to encourage you to think extra hard about whether + or not you really need to use meli and mije in most + contexts. +
++ you don't have to be as extreme as i am about meli and + mije, though. +
+