kom
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, pro.you (nonemphatic, plural).
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Examples:
> He's quiet and motionless (like a carved doll).
> Droteo and Toki are quite close or always doing things together.
> Toki's party was just getting interesting when it ended.
> Droteo persuaded Maria to finally go to the police.
> We are completely uninformed because we don't know any information (about that).
Proverbs:
> Like the man who made coconut syrup in Ngesebei, dipping from half-filled containers to keep one overflowing.
Pertains to a situation which may have occurred in Ngesebei, a small hamlet in Ngardmau (northern Palau): a coconutsyrup specialist always kept one coconutshell container full and in sight of guests, who, thus, would think that all of his containers were full. The idiom applies to any pointed display of opulence. It's a deceptive display of wealth.
> 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.
> Like the honey bee, celebrating without first boiling down the coconut syrup.
Once coconut syrup, dripping from the cut flower stem, is collected it is thickened by boiling. The honeybee, however, collects his nectar, puts it in the hive without boiling it, then proceeds to fly around noisily as though celebrating the completed task. Hence, to talk or boast loudly about successes and accomplishments when one has none; to make plans but never carry them out; to celebrate without cause.
> You're like the Ngcheangel banana (meduch a ngerel).
You're all talk and no action).
> A male child, though small, is yet like a small barracuda that braces against the flowing stream.
The small barracuda (mersaod, a small ai) can be seen bracing, without apparent motion, against the stream, usually where fresh water flows into the lagoon, or where tide water runs off the reef, until suddenly it dashes into the stream to grab a small fish. Then it retreats once more to its place of watchfulness. This watchful, quiet, reserved, almost crafty approach to life is much admired, and parents will encourage their male children with this saying.
More Examples:
> Do you still remember when you were young?
> I am so starving.
> As the sky turns red I am perplexed about my thoughts for you.
> Would you clean them taros as you are closer to them.
> John is taking too long and his wife is "like a decorated lobster" waiting for him.

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