Palauan Language Online: Palauan-English Dictionary

> Our new house was built by my father.

> You, children, are to be pitied because your father has died.

> All those things you learned from your father won't work or won't be of any use.

> Droteo is following in his fathers footsteps (i.e., following his father's way of life).

> Do you have a father?

> Like his father, for he ate his father's premasticated food.

> I went fishing with my dad yesterday.

> This chelebucheb that I am wearing was for the marriage of Sue that my father received/earned.

> Sometimes, i really miss my father and mother.

> I am not possessed by a devil; but I honor my Father, and you dishonor me.

> What's your father's name?

> It's my friend who my brother has hit.

> It's my brother who has hit my friend.

> The boy whose brother I hit is my friend.

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> How old is your older brother? (only said by a male)

> What is your older brother's name?

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> My brother's name is John.

> Droteo is carrying out an obligation to his sister.

> My sister got married.

> I had an affair with my brother in laws sister.

> My brother used to get the betelnuts. Now that he left, it's my duty.

> It was Ngiradaob, Dirasils's brother, who received the keldait that was put in for the marriage.

> What's your opposite sex sibling's name?

> How old is your younger brother? (only said by a male)

> My brother borrowed my net and now it's all tangled.

> I have one younger brother. (Can only be said by a maile).

> What's your younger brother's name? (male to

> My younger brother and I were making our canoe.

> That old man goes fishing often./That old man is quite a fisherman.

> I wonder what the approximate age of the old man may be.

> Now that the Syrians say that God is the lord of the hills and not the lord of the plains, I will give you victory over their huge army.

> This is evil in the Lord's sight, and it will make him angry.

> The old man is using a vise grip to hold his spear so he can sharpen it.

> Like the running elder.

> You're like the old man of Ngerechelong who uses a cloud to mark the location of his fishtrap.

> Old men had their ears pierced.

> Her father picked his daughter onto his shoulder as her foot was hurting and they walked home.

> This old man says that strong storm may be coming.

> This old man stayed stiff and contorted as he died.

> Men, young and old wore loin clothes.