Answers to the excercises from the previous lesson:
toki ma to English:
tu kenta luka wan → two hundreds and six.
kenta weka tu ten li sama ala sama se luka san ten? → One hundred minus twenty is equal to eighty?
nanpa ala li kipisi e nanpa ten san → Thirteen is a prime number (=No numbers divide thirteen)
sinko mi pi nanpa wan le wile e pata → My first son wants a sibling.
English to toki ma:
Fourteen thousand thirty two → ten po mila san ten tu.
The number "pi" is equal to 3.14 → nanpa "pi" li sama se san osa ten po.
We've been waiting for more than three hours → mina awen alen palanta san.
Half of your group don't know how to count → kulupu si kipisi tu li sona ala talili.
In toki ma, things can be "big" in three different ways, but they all have the same opposite. Something can be suli, big; lamo, tall; or epi, heavy. In all cases, the opposite es sano, small. If you need to specify which kind of small something is, you can use sano suli, sano lamo, and sano epi, but most of the times contexts would be enough.
jan ni li suli li sano lamo → This person is big and short
To be more precise, you can use the words meta, meter; lita, liter; and kilo, kilogram.
on li (epi) kilo luka ten → He/she weighs fifty kilos
mi wile e telo pi lita po → I want four liters of water
pajan ni li ulun pi meta ten mila → This city is ten kilometers (=10 000 meters) away
Time in toki ma can be measured in sekunte, seconds; minuto, minutes; palanta, hours; (tenpo) suno, days; (tenpo) pali, weeks (time of work); (tenpo) mun, months; (tenpo) sike, years (time of a cycle); and many more:
minuto san pini la on le tawa! → He left three minutes ago!
mi tawa ki tomo pi mama na mi ita mun ali → I go to my parents' house every month.
Days of the week and months (as well as days of the month, and years) do not have names, but numbers:
suno po pi mun ten → October the fourth (day four of month ten)
Birthdays in toki ma are "turns to the sun":
tenpo san ten la mi sike e suno → I'm thirty years old (thirty times, I circled the sun)
There are two words related to money in toki ma: esun, which means either "market, shop, fair, bazaar", "business transaction" or "to buy", and mani, "money, cash, savings, wealth" or "to sell":
jan mute li mani e ijo in esun → Many people sell things in the market
Names of currencies are formed with mani + name of the country; but the name of the country can be omitted if it is clear by context:
mi esun e kili mute kan mani [Elopa] san → I bought a lot of fruit for three Euros
To speak about the general temperature, seli and lete (cold) are used, together with lon:
seli li lon → It's hot (lit. heat is present)
lete li lon ala lon in ulun? → Is it cold there?
You can add modifiers, like mute and lili, or use seli + numbers to specify a temperature (assumed to be in degrees Celsius):
seli wan li lete mute → One degree is very cold
For the temperature of objects, you can use the construction seli/lete pilin (warm/cold to the touch):
ni li lete pilin! → this is cold!
epi, ijo, kilo, lete, lita, mani, meta, minuto, sano, sekunte, and sike.
Practice what you have learned with the following sentences. The answers, in the next lesson:
toki ma to English:
suno kama la seli ten tu li lon.
mi wile mani e kali mi kan mani ten mila.
sinko mi li sike e suno ita tenpo san.
mi meta wan osa luka san li kilo luka tu ten.
English to toki ma:
When is your birthday? (hint: when do you circle the sun?)
Go buy two liters of juice. (juice: fruity liquid)
It's freezing in my house.
We had to wait fiveteen minutes.