mei
/me		, v.i.come; arrive.
mei
a
okedongel
a
chad;
mei
er
tiei,
mei
me
kulekoi,
ka
mei.
bev.imp.
be
a
ta
er
a
telengtengil
a
tekoi
el
mengai
er
a
tekoi
el
mei;
be
bong,
be
metengel.
blev.s.hypo.
meracont.mei er a
merekung
/merkung		v.i.pred.is about to come or arrive.
mermang
/meremang		v.inch.
meremang
a
merael
mei;
ngar
er
a
omerolel
el
mei;
dumiang
er
a
dmuil.
mlei
/mle		v.pastcame; arrived.
mlei
a
mla
mei
me
ngar
tiang;
skoki
a
mlei
er
a
tutau.

mle
a
melekoi
er
a
rrekui;
Bung
a
mle
tmuu;
ng
mle
mekerang?
mleracont.mlei er a
be kbongexpr.goodbye; I'm leaving.
me e mong
/memong		expr.pass by; go on; "(in a direction) towards me and then keep going (past me)."
nguu el meiexpr.bring.
ta el buil er mla me e mongexpr.one month ago.
Examples:
Ak
mo
kolii
se
el
ringngo
me
aike
el
tuu.
> I am going to eat up that apple and those bananas.
Ke
mera
el
meoud!
> You're very late!
Ng
eru
el
klok
me
a
tedobech.
> It's two thirty.
A
Dios
a
milskak
a
deurreng
me
a
cherchur.
> God has brought me joy and laughter.
A
elolem
el
klok
me
a
tedobech
e
ak
mo
melechong
e
buras.
> At 6:30 a.m. I take a shower and brush my teeth.
Proverbs:
Ke
ko
er
a
kuaol
el
sbungel
er
bab
me
iou.
> You're like a fish bait which can be eaten or pecked from the top and bottom.
You don't know what to do because chores keep coming in from left and right.
Ak
meruul
me
kau
er
a
terudel?
> I build it and you destroy it?
May be applied to a person who feels his aims or projects are being destroyed by the actions of another.
Ke
mera
el
di
medochii
el
rouar.
> You grab and then you pick it up.
Like telling a joke, you're still telling it yet you laugh like you just heard it.
Ng
diak
kobetik
rengii
recheroid
e
me
douchi
er
a
rebai.
> Without looking afield, it was cut down behind the house.
From the folk tale concerning Mesubed Dingal, the inventor of the Palauan kite (see also No. 73). After his wife had been kidnapped, he constructed a kite using feathers from all the birds of Palau and he needed also wood from an Edebsungel tree to fashion the body of the bird-kite. After looking all over Palau and being on the point of giving up, he found the tree he needed behind his own house. The saying may be applied to anyone who does things the hard way, or who goes far afield to find something which is close at hand.
Ng
mlenga
a
telochel
a
demal
me
ng
uai
ngii.
> Like his father, for he ate his father's premasticated food.
Applied to a child by adoption, with the implication that the adopted child resembles his adoptive father
More Examples:
Me
a
odekial
aika
el
rokui
el
udoud
el
mlechudel
e
ng
mlo
sebechek
el
mecherar
a
blik.
> The sum of all the money that was collected, I was able to buy my house.
Ak
mo
omechar
a
kelam
el
beras
me
a
kansume.
> I'm going to the store to buy rice and canned meat.
Ng
sebechek
el
mo
mechiuaiu
me
a
klukuk.
> May I go to sleep until tomorrow.
Ng
locha
bai
kirel
el
lmuut
el
mo
er
ngii
a
bul
er
a
beluu
e
meruul
a
skoki
el
di
me
soiseb
se
el
mellomes
el
ua
ngar
e
mong.
> I think there should be a curfew on land and have flights only come in during the day like before.
Ngka
el
John
a
mera
el
chelideuid
a
otechel.
> John has a reallly fast pitch.
sekkak, v.i., [From Japanese] go to special effort or trouble for; make a point of.
sekkak el meiyou went to all the trouble to come here
Examples:
Ak
kmal
sekkak
el
me
el
melai
er
kau,
e
kau
a
chetim.
> I've gone to all this trouble to come and get you, and (now) you don't want (to go).
A
Toki
a
kmal
sekkak
el
mengetmokl
er
a
blil
el
kirel
a
party,
e
dimlak
a
chad
el
mong.
> Toki made a special effort to fix up her place for a party, but not a single person came.

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