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| uaisei | cont. | ua se |
ua se
/uai sei | expr. | like that. |
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> How many passengers can your boat carry?/What's the capacity of your boat? |
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> How are you? |
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> How close is your house? |
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> Droteo fixes cars as well as you. |
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> They will be like trees whose branches are burned by fire, whose blossoms are blown away by the wind. |
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> It's as if we were walking on the blade of a knife. i.e., we're treading on dangerous ground; if we make one wrong move, we're finished. |
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> Like making a whirlpool in Modelab's water tub. Probably having reference to a folk tale, this saying is applied to any state of general social confusion. Some worldly Palauans used it with reference to the state of world affair |
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> Like taro, though the leaves are tall, still immature. Taro (Colocasia esculenta) is mature only when the leaves produced by the plant are small. When the plant produces its largest leaves the tuber in the ground is still quite small. The saying may be applied to a person who, while yet young and inexperienced, is proud and boastful. |
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> 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 |
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> Nibbling like a rat. Activity that slowly destroys another person or institution. Generally applied to verbal actions; spreading malicious gossip; a speech loaded with subtle insults. However, it can be applied to wider behavior such as economic behavior that destroys the resources of the country: killing fish by dynamite; cutting forests without planting |
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> How is the weather? |
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> How's your drink? |
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> And How are you? |
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> What's the shape and texture of mangoes? |
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> What is the color of your car? is it blue? or is it red? |
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| Ke ua ngarang? | , expr. | How are you? |
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> How are you? |
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> How are you? |
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mellemau
| , v.s. | blue; green; black and blue; bruised.
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| melellemau | v.s.redup. | light blue; sort of blue.
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| mellemau el ua daob | expr. | bluish green; azure. |
| mellemau el ua llel a lius | expr. | green. |
| mera el mellemau | expr. | deep blue (of deep water). |
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> Its color blue |
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> Yes, they have blue, white, and red. |
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> What is the color of your car? is it blue? or is it red? |
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ngera
/ngerang
/ngarang
/ngara | , pro. | what; which; what kind of; anything (but or except).
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| ng diak a ngerang | pro. | nothing. |
| ua ngarang | pro. | how. |
| ngera me | expr. | why? for what reason? |
| ngera ngar ngii | expr. | what's up? what's happening? |
| ngera uchul me | expr. | why? for what reason? |
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> What's your religion? |
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> What are you drinking? |
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> What is that (thing near you)? |
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> How is it? |
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> What's your house made out of? |
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> From the mature tree the sapling dribbles. Eseos is a mature tree, dalm is a sapling; olengimch means to drip, drizzle, or dribble. Application is to the similarity of the child to its parents, generally its father. |
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> Dachelbai brought himself close to Ulang, what kind of schemes are they planning now? |
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> What is in your hand? It is a cigarette, not gun. |
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> What is the laughter about? |
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> How are you? |
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> What does this mean? |
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| omerrous | , v.t. | dream about.
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| merrusii | v.pf.3s |
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| mirrusii | v.pf.3s.past | |
| merrous | v.pf.3p.inan. | |
| mirrous | v.pf.3p.inan.past | |
| blerrous | v.r.s. | dreamt about.
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| oberrous | v.erg. | |
| ombeberrous | v.t.redup. | sort of dream about; imagine; daydream; wish for something to happen.
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| omerrous el kmo | expr. | dream that. |
| omerrous el ua se | expr. | dream that. |
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> There are ones who have dreamed about being in that place. |
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> Ulang is hoarding her mango and doesn't want to share, hopefully she will get a bellyache. |
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