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ma kili lili mi

Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2016 2:28 pm
by jan sewi kasi
Mi pali lon ma kili lili mi. Ni li pona tawa mi. Mi pali mute ala tan mi kepeken lili e ilo. Mi pakala ala e supa. Taso mi pana e kili lili sin lon sewi supa. Tenpo ali la kasi moli li lon sewi supa. Ni li pona tawa pona ma kili lili en kili ali en moku mi.

A bit of practice for me. Learnt basic vocab, grammar needs some work. Corrections more than welcome.

Re: ma kili lili mi

Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2016 5:40 pm
by janKipo
no relative clauses in tp; you have to use two sentences generally (work-arounds are a lot later in the course) so'mi pali mute tan ni: mi kepeken lili e ilo' (no 'e' with 'kepeken')
I know it's a bed in English, but 'ma' is probably better for soil here.
'pana' is a verb of motion, so probably 'pana e kili lili sin tawa sewi supa' for scattering or 'lon insa pi ...' for digging in.
Again, several sentences help; ni li pona tawa ni: ona li pona e ma pi kili lili e kili ali e moku mi' (one possible interpretation; there are several others.

tp sentence do not begin with a capital letter (only names get capitalized)

Re: ma kili lili mi

Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2016 4:53 am
by jan sewi kasi
Tenpo suno ni la talo sewi li kama anpa. ni li pona tawa ma kili lili mi. ali li laso mute.

Pona, jan Kipo.

I wasn't thinking "bed", just "horizontal surface", which was for ground. At the end I changed it to ma.
Think I need to learn more about "lon". lon insa pi... = location inside of/ under?
Yes, I knew abut the capital etters, but my tablet automatically does capital letters after full stops, and I was feeling lazy. I'll strive not to. :)

Re: ma kili lili mi

Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2016 9:07 am
by janKipo
I'm painfully familiar with autocaps; I just noted the problem in case it was deliberate. The rest looks good.

Re: ma kili lili mi

Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2016 4:41 pm
by jan sewi kasi
kasi mute lili li pana ala kili tan ni: pipi pi muko suwi li pali e lupa lili lon kasi kule. pipi li pana ala e ijo jelo. kasi kule li ken ala unpa. kasi kule li moli li pali ala e kili. taso mi pilin pona tan ni: ale li moli ala. mi jo e kili mute lili.

Re: ma kili lili mi

Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2016 5:15 pm
by janKipo
'pana ala e kili'
sina sona ala sona e ni: pipi pi moku suwi li pali e ni? ni li sin tawa mi.

Re: ma kili lili mi

Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2016 5:53 am
by jan sewi kasi
janKipo wrote:'pana ala e kili'
a pona
sina sona ala sona e ni: pipi pi moku suwi li pali e ni? ni li sin tawa mi.
sona. ni li sin kin tawa mi.
uta linja pi pipi ni li lili. kasi kute li suli. pipi li ken jo e moku suwi tan ni: pali e lupa lili lon kasi kule.
pipi ali ala li pali e ni: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nectar_robbing

(kin = too/also?)

Re: ma kili lili mi

Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2016 12:31 pm
by janKipo
prob 'tawa mi kin' since you are the new information, not "news" ('kin' does mean "too" but attaches to the new component, not the matrix -- English sloppy usage notwithstanding).
'ona li pali e lupa' tp doesn't (so far) allow dropping even the most obvious subjects.

Re: ma kili lili mi

Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2016 5:48 am
by jan sewi kasi
pona mute :)

tenpo suno ni la telo sewi mute li kama anpa. ona li pona tawa ma kili lili mi.

Re: ma kili lili mi

Posted: Mon Aug 26, 2019 8:49 pm
by jan Seloki
What is 'sewi supa' meant to be? I could be wrong but I don't think I've ever seen 'taso' used at the beginning of a sentence. Maybe something like 'mi pana e kili lili sin taso lon sewi supa' or '...lon sewi supa taso'. It's hard to know without it being clear what you were trying to say. As jan Kipo said only names (non-toki pona words) are capitalized. Bed (not flower bed) is usually supa lape.