| ududek | n.poss.1s | |
| ududem | n.poss.2s | |
| ududel | n.poss.3s |
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| ududam | n.poss.1pe | |
| ududed | n.poss.1pi | |
| ududiu | n.poss.2p | |
| ududir | n.poss.3p | |
| ududek el lluich el kluk | expr. | my twenty dollars. |
| ududir a rengalek | expr. | Palauan money given to children by father's family when either parents died. |
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See also:
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Examples: |
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> If only I had some money, then I'd be able to go to America. |
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> Toki always used to borrow money. |
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> If I had money, (then) I'd go to Guam. |
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> Toki wanted to go to Guam, but her money ran out. |
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> I'm afraid I won't have any money to go to America. |
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Proverbs: |
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> 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. |
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More Examples: |
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> Did you pay back your debt to your father, the money you borrowed last month? |
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> My budget was low, I could not buy cigarettes. |
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> Father/mother, I need money to go to college/university. |
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> I'm borrowing money not less than a thousand dollars. |
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> 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. |
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