| 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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> The amount of money has become more than the cost of the house. |
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> I'm afraid I won't have any money to go to America. |
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> My money's run out. |
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> There is no more money. |
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> If Droteo hadn't had the money, (then) he wouldn't have gone to Guam. |
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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 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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> I'm borrowing money not less than a thousand dollars. |
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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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> Did you pay back your debt to your father, the money you borrowed last month? |
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