Wordin 9 sentences
pone
to put
- Where it comes from
- Latin pōnere → Spanish poner, Italian porre, Portuguese pôr — global through position, component
- Group
- Actions
- First taught
- Lesson 25
- In the published corpus
- 9 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
- to put
- More than one
- pone-pone — the noun said twice, joined by a hyphen. Nothing is added and nothing inside the word changes, so nothing can become irregular. The rule.
In use9 shown
Sentences that use it.
Every one written by hand and checked against the rules. Shortest first.
- Mi pone libro in tabla.I put the book on the table.lessons/lesson-25-doing-and-being
- Yu pone akua in gelas.You put the water in a glass.texts/text-8-kaifa-suru-ca
- Yu pone gelas in ates.You put the glass on the fire.texts/text-8-kaifa-suru-ca
- Yu pone ca in akua garam.You put the tea in the hot water.texts/text-8-kaifa-suru-ca
- Yu mau sukar? Yu pone sukar.Do you want sugar? You put sugar.texts/text-8-kaifa-suru-ca
- Yu mau halib? Yu pone halib.Do you want milk? You put milk.texts/text-8-kaifa-suru-ca
- Mi pone sapatu in kaki mi.I put shoes on my feet.texts/text-9-pagi-in-madina
- Mi pone samaki in tabla. Mi ambil sikin.I put the fish on the table. I take a knife.texts/text-16-berapa-harga
- Ta-ta pone tabla aur du kursi in kamra.They put a table and two chairs in the room.texts/text-21-uan-umur
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