mei
/me
, v.i.come; arrive.
mei
a
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mei
er
mei
me
ka
bev.imp.
be
a
ta
er
a
a
el
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el
be
be
blev.s.hypo.
meracont.mei er a
merekung
/merkung
v.i.pred.is about to come or arrive.
mermang
/meremang
v.inch.
a
er
a
el
er
a
mlei
/mle
v.pastcame; arrived.
a
mla
mei
me
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mle
a
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mle
ng
mle
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:
> The image of your face is always appearing in my mind.
> At 6:30 a.m. I take a shower and brush my teeth.
> Why don't you sit down (lit., are you standing up because you don't have a bend in your legs)?
> Droteo and Toki are quite close or always doing things together.
> Toki and Droteo each have separate house.
Proverbs:
> 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.
> Like seaweed at Kosiil, out with the tide and in with the tide.
Kosiil is a location in the lagoon where the seaweed can be seen to bend in and out with the tide. The idiom is applied to a leader who is too flexible and unreliable. In the short form (Kora char ra Kosiil) it may simply mean, "I'll go along with what you decide."
> It's like the rat of Ngerard, which eats up all your coconuts and (then) all of ours.
It's a decision, plan etc. that will backfire. A pet rat owned by Mad, chief of Ngaraard, ate the coconuts of most of the chief's neighbors, then, still hungry, ate the chief's own coconuts.
> 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.
> Are you the son of Redechor
is that why you're standing around so much?
More Examples:
> I was sleeping on the bench and listening to the waves breaking on the shore.
> I used to get spanked with a ruler or yard stick when I was in school.
> I fished at the dock. I only caught squid.
> Is that your dream or did it really happen?
> It is really hot.

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