mei
/me
, v.i.come; arrive.
mei
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mei
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mei
me
ka
bev.imp.
be
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ta
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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
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el
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mlei
/mle
v.pastcame; arrived.
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mei
me
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mle
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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 tree is obstructing or bothering the road so I cannot go to the other side.
> He was very rich.
> I was sick, so I didn't go to school.
> Someone or other came looking for you.
> The boat will stop for a short while and then go on.
Proverbs:
> 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."
> Really a child of the back.
A child (sometimes an adult) that behaves well whether its parents are present or not; a child that is good when one's back is turned.
> I receive it and you ask for it?
A man asks for and receives that which he needs from a second party. A third party, learning of this, asks the first party for it. Used as implied or generally about any unreasonable request
> 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.
> 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
More Examples:
> As the sky turns red I am perplexed about my thoughts for you.
> He was running late this morning and left without his lunch.
> Women, young and old wore grass skirts.
> Come inside.
> I'm single. I have never been married.

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