techa
/techang
, pro.who; whom.
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Examples:
> Whose book are those kids reading?
> Who would be left to cheer me up? Only the very persons I had made sad.
> Whose food is this?
> Who did the old man kill?
> Who is wise enough to count the clouds and tilt them over to pour out the rain?
More Examples:
> What are your names?
> My ears are ringing. Someone is talking about me.
> What is your older sister's name?
> What is this person like?
> Who's wearing a necklace?
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, pro.that object far from speaker and far from listener.
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se elconj.when (in the future); whenever.
se el sekumconj.if (used in negative sentences).
selcont.se el
er se er aexpr.when (in the past).
er se er a Sebadongexpr.last Saturday.
er se er a taem er a mekemadexpr.during the war.
er seiexpr.over there; in that place.
mekera iseiexpr.[used to refer to a method of doing something that the speaker has forgotten.]
ngera iseiexpr.thingamajig; thingamabob; whatchamacallit. [used to refer to something whose name the speaker has forgotten.]
se di kauexpr.it's up to you.
se el soamexpr.whatever you want; it's up to you.
se el tebelexpr.that table (over there).
se er aexpr.conj. when (in the past).
techa iseiexpr.what's-his-name; what's-her-name. [Used to refer to someone whose name the speaker has forgotten.]
tela iseiexpr.[used to refer to a number that the speaker has forgotten.]
Examples:
> Why are you just sitting here? - Because they don't want me to go over there.
> If there are fifty innocent people in the city, then ...
> Please move into another chair.
> Ulang always mismanages her finances; she is always short when there is a need for her.
> The bicycle was over there.
Proverbs:
> When my eyes are closed.
When one dies the eyes are "closed"; hence, to be dead. The term for "death" is mad as is the term for "eye," (mad; madak: "my eye"). Some sources suggest that the term for death refers to the closed eyes of a dead person.
More Examples:
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> What's that phone number again?
> He gave me this ... whatchamacallit piece for a speargun.
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> When the sun sets slowly.

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