kom
/ko
, pro.you (nonemphatic, plural).
ko
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Examples:
> All the animals were starting to be really glad and they were somewhat comforted.
> We are completely uninformed because we don't know any information (about that).
> I'm leaving, but I don't know if I really want to (lit., my heart keeps returning).
> Are you already rich?
> I'm kind of sick.
Proverbs:
> Like the kingfisher, chattering while taking to wing.
The kingfisher, a restless, bullying bluebird, may be heard to chatter loudly when flying up from the ground or from a perch. The saying applies to one who suddenly spouts instructions to a group, then leaves, or to a leader at a meeting who impatiently interrupts a discussion with a burst of pronouncements, then ends the meeting.
> It's like the feast of Ngchesar, postponed till tomorrow, then the next, and forever.
You keep saying tomorrow, tomorrow. You're lucky there's a tomorrow. Presumably, in the past the village of Ngchesar in central Palau tried and tried again to schedule a mur, the largest, villagewide feast conducted in Palau. But for various reasons the feast was forever postponed. The saying applies to the risk of procrastination.
> Like Ngirekolik
Ngirekolik never completed a task before he ran off to do another. The name can be translated "Mr. Fruitbat," apparently in reference to the animal's eating habit
> You're like a fish bait which can be eaten or pecked from the top and bottom.
You don't know what to do because chores keep coming in from left and right.
> Like the ilaot [coconut juice] of Ngetkib, mixing itself.
Probably of folk-tale derivation, the idiom may be applied to a man who has married too close to his own clan, thus not gaining the assistance of the wife's clan in food and services, since this would amount to the clan giving to itself. Also applied to a situation where a person expects to have some service performed for him but ends up doing it himself.
More Examples:
> Be honest and say you don't want to go instead of going and then regretting it.
> You are so like them seaweeds at Kosiil!
> John is really in a hurry; what's wrong?
> My mother in law is a bit under the weather.
> Have you all agreed what we will be doing tomorrow?

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