jan "KNTRO" o, toki!
ken la lipu mi li ' pona, tawa sina. https://jan-lope.github.io/Toki_Pona_lessons_English/
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- Fri Nov 16, 2018 11:47 am
- Forum: jan pi toki pona
- Topic: toki!
- Replies: 3
- Views: 19274
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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. .....
- 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...
- 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. -...
- 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...
- 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
toki!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.
What's that good for?
- 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...