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Yes, but there is a notion of time inside of those words. And in toki pona, words don't have a meaning that can't change, just a general idea. So you can create new meanings related to the word. For example, monsuta means monster, but some people had the idea to use it with the meaning "to be f...

mi ken jo e nasin sewi wan poka nasin sewi ante tan ni: nasin sewi ante li ike ala tawa nasin sewi ni. lon la nasin sewi Puta li nasin sewi ala. ni li nasin pilin(philosophy). en la pilin pi nasi sewi SInto en nasin sewi Osin li sama mute. jan sewi mute pi pi nasin sewi Sinto en nasin sewi Puta taso...

toki!
mi jo e nasi sewi mute. nasin sewi mi li nasin sewi Puta(buddhism) pi ma Pa(Tibet) en nasin sewi Puta Sen(Zen buddhism) en nasin sewi Sinto( Japanese Shintoism) en nasin sewi Osin(odinism).
nasin sewi sina li nasin sewi seme?

Yes, that's what I meant, "occurence, occasion".

It's not about multiplication, but about how many times a number is repeated. And it's not an English calque, I am French so I did a copy of French: deux fois= tenpo tu= two times.

I used that way, because it's the most convenient. And I used it because it means "times" for example: tenpo tu wan la: three times. With other words it would have been absolute nonsense.

125 000= wan pi tu pi luka pi ala tenpo tu wan

so if there is pi, it's the second method, but if there is no pi, it's the first.

for big numbers, you can use the previous method or the new one with it.
For example, 1 862 374= wan pi luka tu wan pi luka wan pi tu pi tu wan pi luka tu pi tu tu
1 000 000= luka luka ali ali ali(10*100*100*100)

mi jo e pilin ante.
I have an other idea.
We could "spell" a number, and here we could use "pi" to separate the numbers.
For example: 2014= tu pi ala pi wan pi tu tu
1995= wan pi luka tu tu pi luka tu tu pi luka
It seems to be easier than the previous method.