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, pro.you (nonemphatic, plural).
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Examples:
> Droteo and Toki are quite close or always doing things together.
> I've finally gotten to study because Toki has left.
> We are completely uninformed because we don't know any information (about that).
> All the animals were starting to be really glad and they were somewhat comforted.
> Including yourself how many people live in your household?
Proverbs:
> Like a person somewhere taking a bath, but I'm cold.
Applies to any embarrassing act, such as boasting or gossiping, on the part of a friend.
> He's like the sea urchins between Ngiwal and Melekeok, on the ocean floor with its cover.
The sea urchin can be seen lying quietly on the lagoon floor, occasionally with a leaf like a hat covering its head. Applied to a man who acquires a wife or great wealth without working for it.
> She's like the clams at Murael, lying face up (and open) and asking for news.
i.e., she just sits at home asking passersby about what's going on outside. Murael is a reef near Ngerechelong where, as elsewhere in Palau, the various kinds of tradacna shell bask, open and feeding, in the shallow lagoon. The saying applies to gullibility combined with high curiosity for news and to persons who simply sit at home, letting the happenings of the community come to them via passing persons.
> You're just like a cat washing yourself.
i.e., you have to do everything yourself because your relatives are neglecting their obligations to you.
> It's like the way they eat in Ngeraus (where food is scarce): as soon as they get to like or enjoy the food, it's gone.
Just as something becomes popular, it becomes unavailable. Ngerraus is a small village in Ngchesar (central Palau). The idiom suggests a person who begins to feel hungry just as the food runs out. The reference is to the meager food resources of a small village. In contemporary Palau the idiom may be applied to some popular import that soon disappears from the shelves of the stores.
More Examples:
> Your clothes are piled up like you're a snake shedding its skin.
> You all are so pretentious and fancy and meanwhile we are just eating scrap.
> Would you clean them taros as you are closer to them.
> It's raining here but only lightly.
> You're like the jellyfish that do not have a destination.

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