Palauan Language Online: Palauan-English Dictionary

> What are they studying?

Ngara

olibngokl

kau

rengelekel

morael.

> Why are you always leaving your children behind when you go out?

ngara

chetul

blim?

> What's the condition of your house?

> How is it?

Ngara

chimi

ailecha

tekingem?

> What do you mean by that?

More Examples:

omechar

> What are you going to buy?

Aike

> What are those?

kmu

> What do you say?

bedengel

mlim?

mellemau

adang

bekerkard?

> What is the color of your car? is it blue? or is it red?

locha

omdasu

aika

bderrir.

> Wonder what they are thinking.

Ngerang

, n.

hamlet in Melekeok.

Ngerang

a

rengedel

a

beluu

er

a

Melekeok.

Examples:

dichel

> What is that light?

Tilecha

> What is that (thing near you)?

Tia

> What is this?

ngii

kiei

iemoch

meng

uoi

diak

kudengei

ngerang.

> It's as if I live somewhere so far away that I don't know what's going on.

diu

diak

lodengei

leko

mesaod.

> They both don't know anything and yet they're trying to explain.

More Examples:

Tia

siasing

kau

ngar

chelbacheb,

tiang

dengchokl

ngii?

brer

lechub

totang?

> Your picture at the rock island, what are you sitting on? Is it bamboo raft or tin canoe?

chomobekuk

> So what if you're my older brother?

Tiang

beldoel

ngii?

dekool,

diak

lboes.

> What is in your hand? It is a cigarette, not gun.

diak

dil

moruul

lengelem.

> Don't always cry.