betok, v.s.many; numerous; plenty; abundant.
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bebetokv.s.redup.just more than enough.
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betekngei
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v.s.inch.accumulating; increasing in number.
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rebetokv.s.many (required before noun referring to human beings).
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toklechadslangmany people.
rebetok el chadexpr.many people.
rebetok el senseiexpr.many teachers.
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Synonyms: , ,
Examples:
> He left the road to look at the lion he had killed, and he was surprised to find a swarm of bees.
> Droteo really know a lot of proverbs.
> I have quite a rash on my neck.
> Satsko told Toki a lie (saying) that John has lots of money.
> The children left lots of trash in the garden.
Proverbs:
> You're like sardines, very many but only enough for one wrapped piece of fish.
Fish are properly wrapped individually in a leaf for cooking, but sardines are so small that a bunch of them may be wrapped together to make up only one small bundle. The idiom may be applied to a numerous but weak enemy or to a clan that is large but ineffective as in raising money for its members, or for a large group of workers who do not accomplish very much.
> Like one who has eaten the thorny puffer fish, full of many things.
The thorny puffer fish is sometimes gulped by the wide-mouthed grouper fish. The puffer, expanding and extending its thorns in the grouper's mouth, renders the latter rather "full of things" and completely helpless. Groupers in this predicament are occasionally caught by fishermen. The idiom is applied to anyone who faces more problems, more work, or more sweethearts than he can cope with.
More Examples:
> Palauan language is limited and there are many foreign words being used.
> People who wrote these books didn't have enough experience or teachings so there are some mistakes.
> We need to more fire wood.
> You caught a lot of fish so at least give me one red snapper.
> The reason is, there are too many crimes in the society.
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, prefixused to indicate a plurality of people.
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rechadn.people.
rekebiln.pl.girls.
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n.pluralthose people going (somewhere).
resensein.teachers.
rebetok el chadexpr.many people.
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Examples:
> The hospital patients are the people who are sick.
> People tend to start arriving at one o'clock.
> How many people are coming to the party?
> How do Palauans make pottery?
> The president persuaded the senators that were being stubborn. The president obtained the hearts of the senators that had high hearts.
Proverbs:
> The mountains of Koror are people.
Several interpretations are given for this idiom: (i) Koror doesn't have mountains as high as other districts to the north, but the people are as high (elite) as mountains. (2) Others lay claim to the height of the mountains near their village, in Koror the people make the villages great. (3) A group of warriors from a northern village set out to raid Koror, but, as they approached the islands on which the hamlets of Koror are situated, they saw mountain after mountain fading away into the distance; dispairing any success against such a great nation, the raiders turned home. Actually, the mountains that they saw rugged, raised limestone islands-are nearly uninhabited, with Koror's population concentrated on islands of clay and volcanic origin along the northern fringe of the group.
> Narrow was our birth as humans.
The saying defines life as a confined, perilous journey, symbolized by the painful narrowness of the birth canal. Generally applied to the trials of life, or sometimes by a parent to a child that does not want to do his chores.
More Examples:
> We respected the teachers and the school principal.
> Mormons ride bicycles.
> Number of cooks at this school
> There are 8 people in my family.
> The dental program is visiting the village tonight.

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