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| ma | cont. | me a |
| mak | cont. | me ak |
| maki | cont. | me aki |
| me | conj. | and.
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| meng | cont. | me ng |
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> I was eating those bananas and that apple. |
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> You go on ahead to school, and then I'll follow. |
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> How did you fall off the dock? |
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> Why are you acting like a child? |
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> No one is to come here./No trespassing. |
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Proverbs: |
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> 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.) |
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> Are you the son of Redechor is that why you're standing around so much? |
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> He's like Ngerechebal Island, which is neither closer to Imeliik nor closer to Ngerekebesang. i.e. He's indecisive or not clearly taking sides. A person who is "on the fence," changeable and indecisive. The saying may also be applied to a partly westernized Palauan. |
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> I receive it and you ask for it? A man asks for and receives that which he needs from a second party. A third party, learning of this, asks the first party for it. Used as implied or generally about any unreasonable request |
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> When the purple swamp hen appears, it brings remembrance There is a song (Oumachas) from which this saying derives: Once there was a young couple who made love in a secluded spot in the taro garden. While they were lying together a purple swamp hen darted out of the brush startling the couple. Eventually love cooled, but thereafter whenever the girl saw a purple swamp hen while she worked in the gardens, she recalled her lover. Hence any occurrence that brings back fond memories. |
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More Examples: |
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> A librarian's job is to take care of all the books and documents in the library. |
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> He thought he could give me the silent treatment so I ignored him. |
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> Look at where you came from let alone your household before you try to wise up a stranger. |
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> What was said this morning will stay as is until we resume tomorrow. |
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> Because of the love between us we care about each other's well being. |
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| omeng | , v.t. | put hand over (mouth; nose; etc.); put (mouth; face) against; put (mouth) on opening of bottle; stop up (bottle).
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mengii
/mengir | v.pf.3s | |
| milengii | v.pf.3s.past | |
| meng | v.pf.3p.inan. |
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| mileng | v.pf.3p.inan.past | |
| bengoel | v.a.s. | is to be covered with hand; is to be stopped up.
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bleng
/blengoel | v.r.s. | covered with hand; stopped up.
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Examples: |
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> He's bought his car so he's bicycle is now left unused. |
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> It's as if I live somewhere so far away that I don't know what's going on. |
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> He's so busy playing around that his responsibilities are neglected. |
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> She's an amazing cook that she doesn't even need anyone to try the food she makes. |
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> Ulang weighs so little that she can be blown away by the wind. |
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Proverbs: |
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> Destroying his money. Marriage within the clan, generally
considered incestuous, limits the value of the
food-money exchange, since the materials
simply change hands within the same clan
group. A man so married is criticized as
having destroyed his source of wealth. |
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> With persistence the village of Ngersuul was maintained When the men's clubs of Koror could not proceed as far as Melekeiok, a major village to the north that stood in political balance with Koror, the clubs would often stop over at Ngersuul and sack the small village. Yet the people of Ngersuul, over and over defeated, clung to their village and persisted through history. (Sometimes the village of Angaur is used, with a similar meaning, in place of Ngersuul.) The saying may be applied to the harried individual who is about to give up a task because of repeated failure. |
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More Examples: |
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> The wind got so strong that it broke down the chicken house / cage. |
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> I fell on the stone path and cracked my head. |
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> Why are Ngerkumer's eyes blinking so much? |
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> I like this child because he's/she's very polite. |
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