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by jan_Lope
Fri Nov 16, 2018 11:47 am
Forum: jan pi toki pona
Topic: toki!
Replies: 3
Views: 19274

Re: toki!

jan "KNTRO" o, toki!

ken la lipu mi li ' pona, tawa sina. https://jan-lope.github.io/Toki_Pona_lessons_English/
by jan_Lope
Fri Nov 16, 2018 3:30 am
Forum: kama sona toki
Topic: Verb vs. Predicate
Replies: 14
Views: 20715

Re: Verb vs. Predicate

toki! As we have seen, Toki pona sentences are ambiguous if one cannot determine whether the predicate is a verb, a noun or a noun. For example: ona li pona. - pona as transitive verb: It is fixing. ona li pona. - pona as noun: It is the good thing. ona li pona. - pona as adjective: It is good. If t...
by jan_Lope
Mon Aug 27, 2018 1:13 am
Forum: kama sona toki
Topic: Implied Verb Prepositions
Replies: 9
Views: 7547

Re: Implied Verb Prepositions

- intransitive verb "tawa" + an indirect object with the noun "tomo" I see that your site says a similar thing but translates all the examples with a preposition. Which would mean mi tawa is translated as 'I go' (intransitive), and the indirect object tomo becomes a prepositiona...
by jan_Lope
Thu Aug 16, 2018 3:00 am
Forum: kama sona toki
Topic: Implied Verb Prepositions
Replies: 9
Views: 7547

intransitive verb vs. preposition

if the tawa in mi tawa tomo is an intransitive verb, doesn't that make tomo an adverb? so something like 'I go in a house like way'. toki! "mi tawa tomo." We have seen that "tawa" cannot be a preposition here. A preposition introduces the prepositional object in Toki Pona. In th...
by jan_Lope
Wed Aug 15, 2018 1:15 am
Forum: kama sona toki
Topic: Implied Verb Prepositions
Replies: 9
Views: 7547

Re: Implied Verb Prepositions

... Sentences with tawa and lon skip the verb and use a prepositional phrase. mi tawa tomo : I go to home. 'go' is implied from using tawa as 'to' and I've been told 'mi tawa tawa tomo' is wrong. mi lon tomo : I'm at home. 'at' home assumes existence and I assume 'mi lon lon tomo' is also wrong. .....
by jan_Lope
Tue Aug 14, 2018 2:38 am
Forum: kama sona toki
Topic: Verb vs. Predicate
Replies: 14
Views: 20715

Verb vs. Predicate

The static verb "to be" does not exist in Toki Pona. Therefore not only verbs but also nouns and adjectives can be used as a predicate. So without the static verb "to be" declarative sentences without a verb are possible in Toki Pona. In the official Toki Pona book Sonja forms de...
by jan_Lope
Mon Aug 06, 2018 3:18 am
Forum: kama sona toki
Topic: When is a predicate is only formed by an adjective?
Replies: 1
Views: 4023

When is a predicate is only formed by an adjective?

Does anyone know a possibility in Toki Pona that a predicate is clearly only formed by an adjective? By this I mean that the predicate in this case cannot be a verb or noun. For example: ona li pona. This sentence has three possible grammatical variants and thus at least three possible statements. -...
by jan_Lope
Fri Jun 22, 2018 1:16 am
Forum: jan nasa li wile ante e toki pona
Topic: Experimental punctuation for didactical purposes
Replies: 16
Views: 36203

Re: Experimental punctuation for didactical purposes

toki! For didactical purposes, specifically in order to illustrate Toki Pona sentence structures, I'm using the following punctuation: https://github.com/stefichjo/toki-pona/blob/master/nasin-toki.md#sitelen-musi-pi-poka-nimi If you would like your sentence to be analyzed, please post it in this th...
by jan_Lope
Fri Jun 22, 2018 12:57 am
Forum: jan nasa li wile ante e toki pona
Topic: Experimental punctuation for didactical purposes
Replies: 16
Views: 36203

Re: Experimental punctuation for didactical purposes

janTepanNetaPelin wrote:In many cases, the official book eliminates commas (between li-phrases, e-phrases), but not always. For clarity, I keep them in the didactical punctuation.

ona li lili li lete.
ona li lili, li lete.
toki!

What's that good for?
by jan_Lope
Tue Jun 19, 2018 4:09 am
Forum: musi
Topic: toki pona translations for a novel!
Replies: 4
Views: 10659

Re: toki pona translations for a novel!

toki! lipu sin ni li lon. ni li sitelen, lon ni: tomo tawa mun li kama, tan sewi. jan pi mun ante li toki, kepeken toki pona. taso toki pi lipu ni li ' toki Tosi. https://www.amazon.de/Kleiner-Besuch-Tom-Bleek/dp/1980231451/ref=zg_bs_5452879031_5?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=DRYEKRW0BM22RWQH5...