lesson 8 - locative and temporal statements

vocab

~ temporal

󱥫 tenpo - time, duration, moment, occasion, period, situation

~ locative

󱤅 anpa - bowing down, downward, humble, lowly, dependent; bottom, lower part, under, below, floor, beneath; low, lower, bottom, down

󱥒 poka - hip, side; next to, nearby, vicinity

󱤸 monsi - back, behind, rear

󱥟 sinpin - face, foremost, front, wall

󱥚 sewi - area above, highest part, something elevated; awe-inspiring, divine, sacred, supernatural

lesson

~ locative

to express relative location, use the locative words.

you can combine them with the preposition lon to say "at (place)

lon sewi
~ up, above, in the sky

~ locative examples

jan li lon anpa tomo
~ people are under the house

waso li tawa lon sewi pi soweli sina
~ birds are flying above your house

~ temporal

the word tenpo is useful for talking about time.

to say what time something happened, you could say it happened "lon tenpo X"

~ temporal examples

mi tawa sina lon tenpo kama
~ i go to you in the future

jan li pali lon tenpo ni
~ the person is working at that time

mi wile ala pali lon tenpo lon
~ i don't want to work right now

waso li tawa sewi lon tenpo ale
~ birds always move in the sky

exercises

~ repetition

~ translate from toki pona to english

~ translate from english to toki pona

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