ngera
/ngerang
/ngarang
/ngara
, pro.what; which; what kind of; anything (but or except).
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ng diak a ngerangpro.nothing.
ua ngarangpro.how.
ngera meexpr.why? for what reason?
ngera ngar ngiiexpr.what's up? what's happening?
ngera uchul meexpr.why? for what reason?
Examples:
> What are they studying?
> Why are you acting like a Japanese?
> He's young and unexperienced (lit. his buttocks are covered with sores) and doesn't know anything.
> What do you want?
> He doesn't want anything but or except a beer.
Proverbs:
> From the mature tree the sapling dribbles.
Eseos is a mature tree, dalm is a sapling; olengimch means to drip, drizzle, or dribble. Application is to the similarity of the child to its parents, generally its father.
More Examples:
> Do tell, what happened last night?
> What's the shape and texture of mangoes?
> What chores do you do at home?
> What subjects are you studying at
> How's your meat?
Ngerang, n.hamlet in Melekeok.
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Examples:
> What is that (thing near you)?
> What is that light?
> It's as if I live somewhere so far away that I don't know what's going on.
> They both don't know anything and yet they're trying to explain.
> What are you drinking?
More Examples:
> Why are you frowning all the time?
> So what if he holds a title?
> How was your labor?
> Wonder what they are thinking.
> What is good to see at the movie theaters?

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