| ududek | n.poss.1s | |
| ududem | n.poss.2s | |
| ududel | n.poss.3s |
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| ududam | n.poss.1pe | |
| ududed | n.poss.1pi | |
| ududiu | n.poss.2p | |
| ududir | n.poss.3p | |
| ududek el lluich el kluk | expr. | my twenty dollars. |
| ududir a rengalek | expr. | Palauan money given to children by father's family when either parents died. |
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See also:
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Examples: |
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> Give me your money! |
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> If Droteo hadn't had the money, (then) he wouldn't have gone to Guam. |
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> If only I had some money, then I'd be able to go to America. |
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> Toki wanted to go to Guam, but her money ran out. |
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> I have less money than you. |
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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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More Examples: |
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> The sum of all the money that was collected, I was able to buy my house. |
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> My budget was low, I could not buy cigarettes. |
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> My cousins and I helped with some money for my uncle's wife. |
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> The value of such stone money is not only the sheer size of the discs, but the physical and treacherous labor of carving them, and then transporting them back to Yap via outrigger canoe. |
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> Father/mother, I need money to go to college/university. |
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