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jan Kaja o: toki! mi jan Lopata. sama e sina la mi sin. ni li toki pana mi nanpa wan. tenpo suno lili la mi kama sona e toki pona. mi sin tawa toki pona! mi wile kama sona e toki pona mute. toki pona sina li lukin pona tawa mi. taso mi sona ala e ni: toki pona sina li pona anu pakala. mi sona ala e ...

...mi kama tan ma Nusilan! ma Nusilan li nimi ante e ma Atelola. ona li nimi e ni tawa jan tenpo wan pi ma Nusilan. jan tenpo wan pi ma Atelola-Nusilan li nimi e jan Mali. ma Nusilan li jo toki lawa toki tu. ona li lon e toki Mali en toki luka Nusilan. toki Inli li toki lawa toki ala tawa ma Nuslian...

toki! mi sin tawa toki pona ...but in answer to your question, surely it would depend on the context? So, assuming I'm getting the hang of the lingo... For 'square' in the pure geometric sense I think I would use 'sitelen (pi) linja (sama) tu tu'. I also considered 'kulupu (pi) linja (sama) tu tu', ...

toki! mi sin tawa toki pona la... ...so take this with the appropriate dose of salt. That said, here's my analysis and resulting approach: Given (?) that 0-9 are covered, it seems to me that we need to consider: * Everyday counting numbers up to 100, or perhaps 1,000. * Accounting numbers into the m...

jan Kipo o, toki! ona li pona tawa mi e ni: sina toki tawa mi. It has occurred to me that 'lon ala' might be better for imaginary numbers - except that then you have ambiguity between 'lon (ala ...)' and '(lon ala) ... '. Perhaps 'en (nanpa) lon ala pi ...' ? As I said, I'm new to toki pona, so the ...

And now it occurs to me that 'suli' might be a better thousand tag than 'kulupu'.

mi moli e ala mute pi lawa toki.
ona li utala e lawa mi.

(I've killed all those zeroes in the title - they were doing my head in.)

jan Kipo o, toki! Thanks for the feedback. I'm loathe to hijack jan Kaja's thread, but since you've gone to the effort, let's see if we can get this straight. I'm sure I have got the construction wrong in places, so much so perhaps that I think you have misunderstood what I was trying to say, which ...

jan Kaja o, toki!

mi pilin ike e ni: toki mi li utala e linja toki pi sina.

mi wile toki tawa sina.

mi sona e toki pi sina.
sina sona e toki pi mi anu seme?

mi tawa!

toki! My instinct would be to use 'mani supa' - base money. 'mani noka' makes some sense to me too, but it reads to me more like 'at the foot/base of' than 'that upon which [something] is set or based'. I agree that 'mani anpa' doesn't seem to fit. One of the meanings listed in jan Pije's dictionary...

I think I would riff off 'ijo ala'. 'o kama jo e ijo ala li lon e [insa pi] lawa sina' Come to have no-thing at [inside of] your mind (imperative):- Empty your mind! (I think - I'm still learning.) I wonder also whether 'poki' has a role to play here. 'o kama e ni: lawa sina li lon e poki pi ijo ala...