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How do I say?

Vacuum - ilo pi kon tawa wawa

Clean - jaki ala

I protect her - mi weka e ijo ike tan ona
or from the discussion at http:/forums.tokipona.orgviewtopic.php?f=5&t=1601
mi awen weka e ona tan ijo ike

mi jo e tomo tawa telo lili. ona li kiwen walo. mi tawa e tomo tawa telo kepeken palisa pi kasi kiwen. mi wile e tomo tawa telo suli. tenpo kama la mi wile pali e tomo tawa telo. mi tawa e tomo tawa telo kepeken kon. mi pali e ona kepeken kasi kiwen. mi kama jo e lipu sitelen. lipu sitelen li toki e...

Thank you for for your comments and explanations.
I will work on writing complete sentences after 'xxs ni:'
I have updated my posting on my tokiponadave blog.

tenpo suno pini la mi pilin ike tan ni: kasi li lon kon e ko lili. ko lili li pakala e nena kon mi. mi ken ala tawa e kon. mi ken ala lape pona. mi tawa e kon kepeken uta mi. telo li anpa. telo li telo e kon. tenpo ni la mi ken tawa e kon kepeken nena kon mi. Comments / corrections please. Yesterday...

No, all the definitions on the new list appear to be nouns.

Thank you both for the feedback.

Joking on the internet -- and in tp, for that matter -- turns out to be tricky. It mainly seems to need more face-to-face. Also. of course, I am a notorious pedant with a notorious lack of sense of humor, so, my apologies. (What was the joke, by the way?) sina pana e sona pi nimi tawa mi. ni li pon...

I translated Eliazar's lessons into English and removed the 'no longer used' tp words.
The lessons are posted here:
https://aiki.pbworks.com/f/tp+in+76+lessons+English.pdf

tenpo esun pini la mi lon sewi tomo tawa mi e tomo tawa telo mi. mi lawa e tomo tawa mi tawa ma lili ante. mi tawa tomo pi jan pona mi. ona li poka telo suli. mi lon telo suli e tomo tawa telo. mi sewi e len lon tomo tawa telo. mi kepeken e kon tawa ni: kon tawa e tomo tawa telo mi. tenpo mute la mi...

I stumbled across the tatoeba website yesterday, (thanks to janMato's twitter page.) http://tatoeba.org/eng/sentences/show_all_in/toki/eng/none Tatoeba is a project that aims to collect lots of sentences translated in several languages. toki pona is one of the many languages on the site. You can add...

mi tawa ma tomo Olakoma. mi tawa tan pali mi. mi tawa weka tan ma tomo Pasen. sewi li laso. nanpa lili pi jan tawa li lon tomo tawa kon. mi ken tawa e noka mi. mi jo e poki tu lon anpa supa monsi mi. mi wile kute e toki pi nasin pona. meli lawa li pona lukin. tenpo suno ni pini la meli li tu e linja...