me a, conj.and.
macont.me a
makcont.me ak
makicont.me aki
meconj.and.
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Examples:
> People tend to start arriving at one o'clock.
> Can I request that you please drop me off?
> When your heart wants to come close to my heart, it's like a person who wants to travel to the rocks in the reef.
> I went to meet Droteo, but he didn't come, so I went home instead.
> Droteo reminded his wife to prepare the food.
Proverbs:
> Like his father, for he ate his father's premasticated food.
Applied to a child by adoption, with the implication that the adopted child resembles his adoptive father
> I receive it and you ask for it?
A man asks for and receives that which he needs from a second party. A third party, learning of this, asks the first party for it. Used as implied or generally about any unreasonable request
> The heart and assessment.
This might better be translated, "Assessment with knowledge." The mind or head is thought to be the locus of knowledge in Palau, but such knowledge is made useful or is measured with the heart (reng). Chodab, in this context, would appear to mean "to take stock of" or "to measure." In essence, then, the phrase cautions one who seems on the point of making a rash decision to temper his thoughts with his heart.
> If it is my lunch it can be divided, if it is yours then it cannot
Two men habitually trapped fish in the same region of the lagoon. One would occasionally ask the other to join him at lunch, the other would always refuse. One day the man who refused arrived with no lunch. When the usual invitation was extended the man refused, saying that, anyway, he had no lunch. The invitation was insistently pressed until the reluctant one gave in. As they split the taro between them the one who shared made the above statement. The idiom is a mild rebuke of a retentive person
> 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.
More Examples:
> Your picture at the rock island, what are you sitting on? Is it bamboo raft or tin canoe?
> The value of such stone money is not only the sheer size of the discs, but the physical and treacherous labor of carving them, and then transporting them back to Yap via outrigger canoe.
> My father had always made ropes from coconut husks at the boating house with his friends.
> What can you do in your household that would help relieve your stress?
> Why are Ngerkumer's eyes blinking so much?
omeng, v.t.put hand over (mouth; nose; etc.); put (mouth; face) against; put (mouth) on opening of bottle; stop up (bottle).
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mengii
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v.pf.3s
milengiiv.pf.3s.past
mengv.pf.3p.inan.
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milengv.pf.3p.inan.past
bengoelv.a.s.is to be covered with hand; is to be stopped up.
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v.r.s.covered with hand; stopped up.
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Examples:
> He's bought his car so he's bicycle is now left unused.
> The attorneys will attempt at a settlement to avoid trial.
> Be careful so you do not break the cup.
> He's so busy playing around that his responsibilities are neglected.
> It's as if I live somewhere so far away that I don't know what's going on.
Proverbs:
> Destroying his money.
Marriage within the clan, generally considered incestuous, limits the value of the food-money exchange, since the materials simply change hands within the same clan group. A man so married is criticized as having destroyed his source of wealth.
> With persistence the village of Ngersuul was maintained
When the men's clubs of Koror could not proceed as far as Melekeiok, a major village to the north that stood in political balance with Koror, the clubs would often stop over at Ngersuul and sack the small village. Yet the people of Ngersuul, over and over defeated, clung to their village and persisted through history. (Sometimes the village of Angaur is used, with a similar meaning, in place of Ngersuul.) The saying may be applied to the harried individual who is about to give up a task because of repeated failure.
More Examples:
> The wind got so strong that it broke down the chicken house / cage.
> I like this child because he's/she's very polite.
> Why are Ngerkumer's eyes blinking so much?
> I fell on the stone path and cracked my head.

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