lesson 2 - the particle li

vocab

󱥆 onathird-person pronoun (he, she, it, they)

󱤻 musifun, game, entertainment, art, play, amusing, interesting, comical, silly

󱤌 ijothing, phenomenon, object, matter, something; being, entity, someone

󱤑 janhuman being, person, someone

󱤍 ikenegative quality; bad, unpleasant, harmful, unneeded

󱥢 sowelifuzzy creature, land animal, beast

󱥴 wasobird, flying creature, winged animal

󱤧 li particlemarks the start of the predicate

notes

󱤌 ijo is the most generic word. it can stand in as a placeholder for anything or anyone.

󱤑 jan and 󱤌 ijo can both be used to refer to others, for uses similar to "someone" in english. when talking about specific people, use what they refer to themselves as! lots of people refer to themselves as words other than jan. (for example, i refer to myself as soweli!)
when you're unsure of how someone refers to themselves, 󱤌 ijo is generally a better neutral term to use for them than 󱤑 jan

lesson

sentences without 󱤴 mi or 󱥞 sina

we covered sentences with only 󱤴mi or 󱥞sina as the subject, but for sentences with any other word as the subject, it's different.

in this case, you use the particle 󱤧li to introduce the predicate:

subject 󱤧 predicate
subject li predicate

practice writing sitelen pona!

the end of the lessons have exercises in reading sitelen pona, but i highly recommend you practice writing sitelen pona too! grab a pen and paper and just write about your feelings, your day, everyday objects, using sitelen pona! keep practicing as you learn more words and grammar, and you'll come far.