lesson 8 - time and place

vocab

󱥫 tenpotime, event, situation, moment, period, duration

󱤅 anpabottom, underside; below, beneath; defeat, humble, lowly

󱥒 pokahip, side; next to, nearby, vicinity

󱤸 monsiback, behind, rear

󱥟 sinpinvertical surface; wall, board; front of something, face

󱤏 insainside, center, between, middle, midpoint, internal

󱥚 sewiup, top, above, highest part; divine, sacred, supernatural; awesome, inspiring, excelling

lesson

place

the place words express location.

you can combine them with the preposition 󱤬 lon to say "at (place)"

(...) 󱤬 󱥚
(...) lon sewi

up
above
in the sky

examples

󱤑󱤧󱤬 󱤅󱥭
jan li lon anpa tomo

a person is under the house

󱥴󱤧󱥩󱤬 󱥚󱥍󱥢󱥞
waso li tawa lon sewi pi soweli sina

birds are flying above your pet

󱤴󱤘󱤂󱥔󱤉 󱥟󱥍󱥭󱥞
mi ken ala pona e sinpin pi tomo sina

i can't fix the front of your house

time

you say the time by describing it, often using the word 󱥫 tenpo.

just like with place words, you can combine descriptions of time with the preposition 󱤬 lon to say "at (time)"

(...) 󱤬 󱥫󱥍󱤖󱥤
(...) lon tenpo pi kama suno

in the morning
at the time of the sun's arrival

examples

󱤴󱥩󱥞󱤬 󱥫󱤖
mi tawa sina lon tenpo kama

i go to you in the future

󱤑󱤧󱥉󱤬 󱥫󱥁
jan li pali lon tenpo ni

the person is working at that time
the person is working now

󱤴󱥵󱤼󱤬 󱥫󱥐
mi wawa mute lon tenpo pini

i was really confident in the past

󱤴󱥷󱤂󱥉󱤬 󱥫󱤬
mi wile ala pali lon tenpo lon

i don't want to work right now

󱥴󱤧󱥩󱥚󱤬 󱥫󱤄
waso li tawa sewi lon tenpo ale

birds always fly
birds fly at all times

exercises

translate from toki pona to english

soweli wawa li kama anpa

the confident animal has become defeated

kasi mute li lon monsi pi tomo mi

lots of plants are behind my house

mi ken tawa sina lon tenpo poka

i can go to you soon

mi wile lon poka sina tan ni · mi olin e sina

i wanna be close to you because i love you

lipu li lon tenpo ale

the document will always exist

translate from english to toki pona

there's something under that coin

ijo li lon anpa pi mani ni

your face is divine

sinpin sina li sewi

bad things happened here in the past

ike li kama lon ni lon tenpo pini

the bugs are speaking in the debate hall

pipi li toki lon tomo toki

fish wanted to fly. now they don't

kala li wile tawa sewi lon tenpo pini · ona li wile ala ni lon tenpo lon

read sitelen pona

󱤴󱤘󱤂󱤬󱥒󱥞󱥧󱥶󱥞

mi ken ala lon poka sina tan weka sina
i can't be at your side because you're far away

󱤌󱤧󱥩󱥭󱥚󱥧󱥁󱦜󱥆󱤧󱥷󱤖󱥔󱦜󱥆󱤧󱥷󱤖󱥵

ijo li tawa tomo sewi tan ni · ona li wile kama pona · ona li wile kama wawa
someone goes to the holy building because they want to improve and become strong

󱥞󱤻󱤉󱤴󱤬󱥫󱥐

sina musi e mi lon tenpo pini
you were funny to me in the past

󱥢󱤧󱤬󱤸󱥞

soweli li lon monsi sina
the animal is behind you
there's a creature on your back