mei
/me		, v.i.come; arrive.
mei
a
okedongel
a
chad;
mei
er
tiei,
mei
me
kulekoi,
ka
mei.
bev.imp.
be
a
ta
er
a
telengtengil
a
tekoi
el
mengai
er
a
tekoi
el
mei;
be
bong,
be
metengel.
blev.s.hypo.
meracont.mei er a
merekung
/merkung		v.i.pred.is about to come or arrive.
mermang
/meremang		v.inch.
meremang
a
merael
mei;
ngar
er
a
omerolel
el
mei;
dumiang
er
a
dmuil.
mlei
/mle		v.pastcame; arrived.
mlei
a
mla
mei
me
ngar
tiang;
skoki
a
mlei
er
a
tutau.

mle
a
melekoi
er
a
rrekui;
Bung
a
mle
tmuu;
ng
mle
mekerang?
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:
Dosei
te
mla
mei,
me
bechere
me
lebe
ltuu
er
a
blai.
> They've come after all, so you might as well let them into the house.
Ng
mle
ngiuk.
> I was sent for.
A
Ulang
a
kot
el
olsebekakl
me
ng
mo
el
suebek
er
a
eolt.
> Ulang weighs so little that she can be blown away by the wind.
Ng
mle
kisets.
> He was in a faint or knocked out.
Me
motebedii
a
tekoi
me
lemeterob
tirke
el
chad
el
meleketek
er
a
beluu.
> Therefore you are to issue orders that those men are to stop rebuilding the city.
Proverbs:
Ke
ko
er
a
kuaol
el
sbungel
er
bab
me
iou.
> You're like a fish bait which can be eaten or pecked from the top and bottom.
You don't know what to do because chores keep coming in from left and right.
Ng
mlenga
a
telochel
a
demal
me
ng
uai
ngii.
> Like his father, for he ate his father's premasticated food.
Applied to a child by adoption, with the implication that the adopted child resembles his adoptive father
Kau,
ke
ngelekel
a
Redechor,
me
ke
di
dechor?
> Are you the son of Redechor
is that why you're standing around so much?
Ak
meruul
me
kau
er
a
terudel?
> 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.
Ng
ko
er
a
debar
er
a
Ngechur,
el
klungang
e
me
ngal
modekriker.
> Like the duck of Ngechur, he became industrious after growing old.
The idiom is applied to a person who has more or less vegetated into maturity and old age and who, already far past his prime, suddenly tries without success to do all the things he might have done when younger. It may be used with reference to an elder who tries to be a dandy.
More Examples:
Kmal
mle
klou
a
ieleb.
> It flooded.
Ak
mesobil.
Ng
dirkak
a
tang
me
ng
bechiil.
> I'm single. I have never been married.
Ke
mera
el
ko
er
a
aika
el
bidabd
el
diak
a
bo
tab
er
ngii.
> You're like the jellyfish that do not have a destination.
A
elii
e
ng
mle
Sandei.
> Yesterday was Sunday.
Ng
mle
kirel
el
melilt
el
kmo
ng
mo
mesiou
er
techang.
> He had to choose whom to serve.

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