tuhEnglishsugar cane; sugarTok Pisinsukaoboi tuh i ngudun5.2Foodfood
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tubán2Surái sangEnglishdo oneself or to oneself; reflexiveGoion kalik erei di lu top on mák lu láklák. Má inái sár ái sang a aptur mák láklák. Gim tu mákái sang ngorer a tubán aptur káián sang mák laklak.That infant child they hold him and he walks. And/but just now he himself got up and walked. We just watched him like that he on his own got up himself and he walked.
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tubangSurtumran; muswanEnglishoriginal; trueKápte ngo káián tekes á buk min, wa kaiak tubang sang.This book is not another's, why it's mine true indeed (it's really mine).Táit erei iau parai anang i kis talum, kápte ngo holhol káián lite kálámul, wa kak holhol tubang. Á iau sang iau hol pasi má ngorer iak parai si gam.What I said down at the meeting, it was not the thinking of a different/another person, why (it was) my own original thinking. Me myself I thought it and therefore I said it to you.
tuán bahinSurkálámul kuluk tili malar ngo i lotu ngo i kesi huhuEnglishsupportbones of one's back; backboneThis is supporting an entity or a cause like the back supports the body.torsonbahingtuán2
tuán2EnglishboneTok Pisinbuntuán bahin2.1Bodybody part human
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tuarSursakrai sulu urami iát má inngasi burkut uradi namurEnglishmoon; show one's backsideThis is done in both teasing and anger. It is also a command to a child who has defecated so he can be cleaned.tám tuartutuar pedopedo
tuan sang i kán holSurkápate parai kán hol singin tekesEnglishhide one's thinkingvery indeed is his thinkingThe meaning of this is similar to the English expression 'keeping things close to his vest'.Ái pasta kápte a parparai kán hol singin matananu ngo anges da pasbat i rumán lotu. A tuan sang i kán hol er ák aposoi i kis talum án atul i kalang.The pastor was not saying his thinking to the people that/about when they would open the church. His thinking was very indeed (he hid his thinking) that he revealed at the meeting of three months (quarterly meeting).sang1
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tuanEnglishvery; intensifiertuan litetuan sang i kán hol
tuan liteSurtuan kesá matngan sangEnglishoutstanding; superior; special; memorablevery differentI pákánbung di pas bat i rumán lotu anang Nokon, a tuan lite pákánbung sang kabin a lala marán matananu di hut suri ialial, má namnam mul a lala marán má kápate arwat suri da arahi.When they opened the church down at Nokon, it was a very different (wonderful, special, memorable) time indeed because there were a great many people who came to watch, and the food also was very much and it was not possible for them to finish it.3.5.3.1Wordinteresting idiom
tu mákmákáiSurmák páksi má kápte tángniEnglishignoreThis includes the connotation of refusing to do what one sees should be done, or of refusing sexual advances.Kak rat iau balantahni adi risán sál, mái lik er a lu murmur i iau a tu mákmákái sár á kak rat má kápate kipi ur singing.My basket I forgot out beside the road, and my daughter that followed after me just ignored my basket and did not bring it to me.gergertu mák atritu longlongrai
tu táit biaSurkápte a lala támin táit uri holEnglishunimportant; worthless; fruitlessmerely a thing nothingNgo kesi kálámul di tari táit singin suri na ololoh on, má kálámul erei a hol on ngo táit di tari singin kápte ngo a lala támin táit, a hol on ngo a tu táit bia sár, pasi kápte a lain ololoh timani.If a person they/someone gives a thing to him so he can take care of it, and that person thinks that the thing they gave to him is not a true/important thing, he thinks it is merely a thing nothing (unimportant) only, (the) result is he does not care properly for it.bia1
tu lu mákSurkis osongEnglishlooking for; expectingmerely be lookingTungu i Bung Tul ái memba a ngo na worwor mai matananu ami aratintin. Matananu di hut, mái sár ngo ái memba kápate hut. Matananu di tu lu mák, má kápate hut.Previously on Wednesday the member said he would speak with the people at the school. People came, however the member did not arrive. People were expecting (him), but he did not come.mákái
tu mák atriSurtu mákái sár má kápte tángniEnglishignoremerely see stand it upRang buhán kálámul imunang kápte di lu támri. Di tu mák atri sang mák lala matpám.The clansmen of that man down there do not feed him. They just ignore him and he becomes very hungry.gergertu mákmákáiatur/atri; mákái
tu long taladengSurkápte hol tangrai táit a longoi; kápte hol namurwai ngádáh a longoi ngoi á himEnglishdo any old way; do haphazardlymerely do extremelyKálámul ngo a longoi kán rum má kápte a hol tangrai ngo ngádáh na longoi ngoi, mái sár ngo a tu long taladeng on, pasi gitá mákái ngo kán rum kápate mákmák kuluk.A man when he builds his house and he does not ponder how he will build it, but he just does it hapahzardly, the result is we see that his house does not look good.long siarilongoi
