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, pro.you (nonemphatic, plural).
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Examples:
> Who is wise enough to count the clouds and tilt them over to pour out the rain?
> I'm leaving, but I don't know if I really want to (lit., my heart keeps returning).
> I've finally gotten to study because Toki has left.
> It's sort of or like a Japanese song.
> Something's wrong between Satsko and Tony.
Proverbs:
> You're like a floating log without a resting place.
You have no fixed abode.
> Like Kerosene, poling his canoe with no obvious destination
Under the German administrator Winkler before World War I, a Palauan named Ngirakerisil (Mr. Kerosene) was employed as a canoe operator. Daily he would take the tireless administrator to a different part of Palau to inspect the various economic programs (largely coconut planting) instituted by the now legendary Winkler. The operator, least of all, could predict where they would be going next. The idiom is applied to any aimless person or action; indecision; a changeable person.
> Like Ngiramesemong, rehashing what has been finished.
Pertains to a person who repeatedly reminds another of past favors or continually recalls the mistakes of others. (My sources no longer recalled the episode or story from which this idiom derives.)
> Like Tangerekoi
The tangerekoi is a portion of the rafters of a club or community hall that serves as a shelf (rekoi). It is also the name of a demigod ranking with several figures who are mentioned in the origin legends. The idiom refers to the multiple functions of the tangerekoi (even as rafters, or shelf), as resembling the work of a woman's world. When a person is already busy and is asked to take on another task, he may say: "Who do you think I am, Tangerekoi?
> Like receiving in Airai.
According to this saying, the people of Airai (central Palau) are likely to ask for those things they have in abundance. A wealthy man asking for financial help; a person asking for a cigarette when he has a pack in his pocket.
More Examples:
> It's raining here but only lightly.
> I feel like eating burnt grated casava.
> She looks so beautiful with her traditional grass skirt and decorations except her lips look inside out with that lipstick.
> I am so starving.
> You all are so pretentious and fancy and meanwhile we are just eating scrap.

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