Word List: Affixes
| -al | , suffix | his; her; its; their. |
| -ang | , suffix | him; her; it. |
| -ed | , suffix | our (including you). |
| -ei | , suffix | used in terms of address such as chedei, ngelekei, merrengei, ochellei. |
| -emam | , suffix | our (excluding your). |
| -emam | , suffix | us (excluding you). |
| -emiu | , suffix | you (plural). |
| -id | , suffix | our (including your). |
| -id | , suffix | us (including you). |
| -il | , suffix | his; her; its; their (non-human). |
| -im | , suffix | your (singular). |
| -ir | , suffix | their (human). |
| -iu | , suffix | your (plural). |
| -kid | , suffix | us (including you). |
| -mam | , suffix | our (excluding your). |
| -miu | , suffix | your (plural). |
| -ud | , suffix | our (including your). |
| -ul | , suffix | his; her; its; their. |
do- /du- | , prefix | we (including you). |
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| , prefix | used to add emphasis to a pronoun (e.g. ikid, ise, itia). |
ki- /kimo- /kimu- | , prefix | we (excluding you) (second person plural exclusive affix).
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| me- | , prefix | used to modify a state verb to indicate that it is describing more than one thing. |
mo- /m- /cho- /chome- /chomo- /chomu- /mu- | , prefix | you. |
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> The school faces in the direction of M-Dock. |
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| o- | , prefix | used to convert a verb into an action noun. |
| ou- | , prefix | used to signify owning, possessing, or using something. |
re- /r- | , prefix | used to indicate a plurality of people.
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| rechad | n. | people. |
| rekebil | n.pl. | girls. |
remo /remong | n.plural | those people going (somewhere). |
| resensei | n. | teachers. |
| rebetok el chad | expr. | many people. |
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Examples: |
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> The Benjaminites had already killed the thirty Israelites. |
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> The hospital patients are sick people. |
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> The ones who are going to the hospital are sick. |
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> But the Most High God does not live in houses built by human hands. |
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> I will make the towns of Judah like a desert where no one lives. |
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Proverbs: |
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> 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. |
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> 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. |
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More Examples: |
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> Go check the rambutan in the rain forest. If there are ripe ones, bring them home but make sure to hide them so people don't bum them off you. |
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> I think people in Airai should make toll booths at the airport and collect fees. |
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> About dolphins, we know that they can help humans when humans get into trouble. |
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> There are 8 people in my family. |
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> People associated with magic and voodoo are feared. |
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| rechi- | , prefix | used to indicate a group of people from a particular country or of a particular ethnicity. |