kom
/ko
, pro.you (nonemphatic, plural).
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Examples:
> You're not paying any attention (i.e. it's as if you were sleeping).
> Droteo has the idea that Toki is a little crazy.
> It's the first time it's rained in a long while.
> We are completely uninformed because we don't know any information (about that).
> Droteo's mouth is small and narrow (like that of a trigger fish).
Proverbs:
> You're like the old man of Ngerechelong who uses a cloud to mark the location of his fishtrap.
i.e. you depend too much on people who are unreliable.
> You're getting involved with someone too closely related.
Possibly derived from an incident in which a coconut syrup maker was incestuously involved with his wife's sister.
> He's like the rabbit fish in Ngetmeduch, which jumps into the net (seemingly) of its own will.
i.e. He always drops by without having been invited. At one point in their life cycle the meas, a tasty, black reef fish, school close to the surface in the shallow lagoon near Ngetmeduch (Koror) and may be easily caught with the derau, a two-part net consisting of two scoop nets, one held in each hand (hence sometimes "butterfly net"). The idiom is applied to a person who habitually appears without invitation at parties or feasts.
> Like the man of Ngerechemai, who lost his turtle and lost his canoe.
Relates to a fisherman who jumped from his canoe to catch a turtle only to find that his canoe had drifted beyond recovery. Applies to any situation where a person fails at a task, or, aptly, to a situation where a man, through his own foolishness, loses both his wife and his mistress.
> You're like the Ngcheangel banana (meduch a ngerel).
You're all talk and no action).
More Examples:
> Your clothes are piled up like you're a snake shedding its skin.
> Where did you go last night?
> John is taking too long and his wife is "like a decorated lobster" waiting for him.
> As the sky turns red I am perplexed about my thoughts for you.
> Would you clean them taros as you are closer to them.

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