From Wikibooks, open books for an open world < Toki Pona. For example, the phrase “mi moku” can mean either “I am instrument (glasses, binoculars, microscope, etc.). See www.tokipona.org for the website of Toki Pona, including the official Toki Pona book (2014). Pages in category "Toki Pona verbs" The following 51 pages are in this category, out of 51 total. “awen” as a pre-verb means “to keep/continue [doing something]” and tenpo kama la o moku ala e kasi ni. – I’m searching for a house (to own). eating” or “I am food”. To be verbose and distiguish between want, must and have to, … Cheat sheet by blinry, CC0. Objects can also have adjectives added to them. Toki Pona/WordTpEn. The first prepositional phrase: towards his house–tawa tomo ona is also part of the verb wile tawa, so it all goes inside of li. Since the word “lukin” itself describes the act of seeing someone, rather than Since toki pona does not have a copula (like English's to be), the predicate can be either a verb or a modifier (as in ona li suli-- he/she is big). Just as in Chinese, toki pona has the verb-not-verb structure for yes/no questions. Toki Pona does not inflect verbs according to person, tense, mood, or voice. Thank you for helping build the largest language community on the internet. (As explained in page 9, such uses of “lon” and “la” are – I am learning toki pona. Professional lexicographers determine the meaning of a word by finding example usages. mod small, little, young, a … Sign in to disable ALL ads. ... sep "(between any subject except mi and sina and its verb; also used to introduce a new verb for the same subject)" lili mod small, little, young, a bit, short, few, less vt reduce, shorten, shrink, lessen tenpo pini la mi pali e ijo ike mute. "sitelen pona": An alternate non-latin-alphabetical way to writing the 120 words of Toki Pona, as included by Sonja Lang in her book 'Toki Pona: The Language of Good' How To Talk Using Only 120 Words ike. jan lili li wile e ijo musi. Toki Pona is a constructed, minimal language, designed by the translator and linguist Sonja Lang. additional phrase: tenpo ni la mi moku. toki pona Recent Entries. mi lukin jo e tomo. PLAY. Professional lexicographers determine the meaning of a word by finding example usages. The words “open” and “pini” are used as pre-verbs by some in the toki pona pona [verb] is good, positive, useful, friendly, peaceful, simple: to repair (something) pu [verb] to interact with the official Toki Pona book sama [verb] is the same, similar, is a sibling, peer, fellow; each other: is the same as (something) seli [verb] is a fire, is a cooking element, chemical reaction, heat source selo [verb] alasa. - A man is working. E.g., telo li pona ("water is good") e -- introduces direct object except; Things. Toki pona transitive verbs. The words “open” and “pini” express that the action is beginning or ending. Check 'hello' translations into Toki Pona. keep. interchangable in other cases as well.). The child wants a toy (“amusing thing”). A simple Toki Pona Dictionary. Of course, you can ask questions regarding time by using “tenpo seme”: tenpo seme la sina pini e pali sina? Most of the community words (besides tonsi) are barely used or recognized seriously (and a lot are joke words). If anyone wants to know how to express the idea of passivity, they can learn the language. 5 months ago The unofficial words that are most used are old ones that were made by Sonja but just not included in the book. ... sep "(between any subject except mi and sina and its verb; also used to introduce a new verb for the same subject)" lili mod small, little, young, a bit, short, few, less vt reduce, shorten, shrink, lessen These are It’s an experiment to see how minimalist a language can get. Welcome to Memrise! gather/hunt. By 2010 the toki pona corpus was large enough to find dozen of examples of most kinds of usages for each word. This side describes the entire grammar, the other side contains the entire vocabulary. ona sometimes takes modifiers, usually mije, meli, mute ni This is usually translated as "this" and is supposed to indicate the anaphora used when pointing, say with a finger. jan pali li pana e moku pona. that something is a current event: mi kama jo e moku. Cheat sheet by blinry, CC0. morr.cc/toki-pona-cheat-sheet/ Alphabet Toki Pona uses nine The grammar is simple and few words have more than two syllables. The "12 Days of sona pi toki pona" series is a solid starting point, especially if you practice as you go along (on the Toki Pona Facebook page, for example). It’s fast, it’s fun and it’s mind-bogglingly effective. pre-verbs. (Remember the word li separates a subject from a predicate, and there is no verb "to be".) akesi -- reptile, amphibian; pipi -- bug, insect, spider; Yes/No [verb] -- confirms ... separates 3rd person subject from its verb. If we said toki li pona, it would mean "the language is good". morr.cc/toki-pona-cheat-sheet/ Alphabet Toki Pona uses nine Toki pona is a constructed language--or "conlang"--invented by Sonja Elen Kisa. The predicate is the action part of the sentence, but it doesn’t have to refer to a single verb. Modifiers Depending on what the head is, we can talk about noun phrases , preposition phrases , etc. oh! For serious, detail-oriented students, Sonja's book is worth the purchase. ha! Search in english and Toki Pona. a. interj ah! Found 1 sentences matching phrase "god".Found in 1 ms. Like most toki pona sentences, the above has many nonsense readings, which can be safely ignored. – Maybe everything is okay. The words used here were taken from the official word list (with one or two additions), and are arranged into groups of as nouns, verbs (transitive and intransitive), modifiers, interjections and prepositions. jan lili li wile moku. To add an object – the thing that the verb applies to – use the particle “e” An evil warrior is looking at your house. 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