plis

please

Where it comes from

English please, already-global

Group

Greetings and basics

First taught

Lesson 8

In the published corpus

20 of the 1321 glossed sentence pairs use it. Only the sentences that carry an English translation are in the corpus, and it is the measure you can check for yourself.

Looked up in English as

please

More than one

plis-plis — the noun said twice, joined by a hyphen. Nothing is added and nothing inside the word changes, so nothing can become irregular. The rule.

Sentences that use it.

Every one written by hand and checked against the rules. Shortest first.

• Plis.Please.lessons/lesson-08-getting-by
• Otur, plis.Sit, please.lessons/lesson-26-telling-and-answering
• Madad, plis.Help, please.lessons/lesson-26-telling-and-answering
• Corba, plis.Soup, please.phrasebook
• Otur sini, plis.Sit here, please.lessons/lesson-10-a-day
• Anda yamin, plis.Walk right, please.lessons/lesson-13-weather-directions
• Sema tena, plis.Say it again, please.lessons/lesson-16-school-and-time
• Lebi libro, plis!More books, please!lessons/lesson-16-school-and-time
• Beri akua, plis.Give water, please.lessons/lesson-26-telling-and-answering
• Buka pencere, plis.Open the window, please.lessons/lesson-26-telling-and-answering
• Akua barid, plis.Cold water, please.phrasebook
• Mi mau ca, plis.I want tea, please.lessons/lesson-08-getting-by

You can also put English in and get Amadunia out, or take the whole corpus as a file.

The rest of the shelf.

• baigoodbye
• basenough, stop
• hihello
• mersithank you
• nono; not — before the predicate, see grammar/negation.md
• okok
• pardonsorry, excuse me
• salampeaceful greeting
• yayes

All 300 roots, or the source table.