Lesson 22: Doing and feeling

Prerequisite: Lesson 21.

New words

Word	Meaning	Word	Meaning
kirim	to send	ates	fire
naiti	to find	tanah	earth, ground
ingat	to remember	udara	air
unut	to forget	mensis	month
finis	to finish
proba	to try	cehra	face
gasil	to wash	sakil	heavy
tabak	to cook	hafif	light in weight
kanis	dog	genc	young
farasi	horse	amik	deep
masal	story	golos	voice
mimpi	dream	grupo	group
yalan	lie

Eight new verbs


Mi kirim surat por rafiki mi.	I send a letter to my friend.
Mi suda naiti anahtar mi!	I found my key!
Yu ingat nama ta?	Do you remember her name?
Mi suda unut.	I forgot.
Kita finis rabota sasa.	We finish the work now.
Mi mau proba corba ini.	I want to try this soup.
Ta gasil mano ta.	He washes his hands.
Mama mi tabak hao.	My mother cooks well.

Remember and forget

They are opposites and they behave the same:


Mi ingat yu daima.	I always remember you.
Mi no unut yu.	I do not forget you.
Ta suda unut kalima ini.	He forgot this word.

Where daima stands is not settled: this course uses three positions and none of them is the rule yet.

Two animals


Kanis mi siya aur keci.	My dog is black and small.
Farasi lebi kabir dari kanis.	A horse is bigger than a dog.
Kanis kimbia in hutan.	The dog runs in the forest.

Fire, earth, air


Ates garam.	Fire is hot.
Akua, ates, udara aur tanah.	Water, fire, air and earth.
Es ates in dom!	There is a fire in the house!
Udara barid in rat.	The air is cold at night.
Tanah in bage mi hao.	The ground in my garden is good.

Morning and month


Pagi ini sundar.	This morning is beautiful.
Mi kula in pagi.	I eat in the morning.
Uan tahun punya des-du mensis.	One year has twelve months.
Mensis ini cang.	This month is long.

Heavy and light, young and deep


Libro ini sakil, libro itu hafif.	This book is heavy, that book is light.
Anak itu genc.	That child is young.
Bahari amik.	The sea is deep.
Kanis mi lebi hafif dari farasi yu.	My dog is lighter than your horse.

Face, voice, story, dream


Cehra ta sundar.	Her face is beautiful.
Golos yu hao.	Your voice is good.
Mama mi sema masal por mi in rat.	My mother tells me a story at night.
Mi suda kan mimpi.	I saw a dream. — I dreamed.
Grupo ini punya des insan.	This group has ten people.

True and false


Habari ini benar.	This news is true.
Habari itu es yalan.	That news is a lie.
Mi no sema yalan.	I do not tell lies.

A conversation

— Pagi hao! Yu ingat kita go hutan din ini? — Mi suda unut! Mi lasim gasil aur kula. — Mi tabak corba. Yu kula, sasa kita go. — Mersi! Kanis mi lai una kita? — Ya. Ta genc aur ta mau kimbia. — Hutan itu amik. Mi punya korku keci. — Mi una yu. No es korku — mi ingat tarik.

Good morning! Do you remember we’re going to the forest today? — I forgot! I have to wash and eat. — I’ll cook soup. You eat, now we go. — Thanks! Is my dog coming with us? — Yes. He’s young and he wants to run. — That forest is deep. I have a little fear. — I’m with you. There is no fear — I remember the way.

Practice

Mi suda naiti libro mi in kamra. — I found my book in the room.
Kanis no bisa kara masal. — A dog cannot read a story.
Petra sakil, kertas hafif. — Stone is heavy, paper is light.
Mi ingat cehra ta aur golos ta. — I remember her face and her voice.
Kita finis oyun kab pagi lai. — We finish the game when morning comes.
Mimpi mi es yalan o benar? — Is my dream a lie or true?

What you can already say

Twenty-two lessons, 257 roots. Eight more verbs, the four elements, a dog and a horse, and the words for what a face and a voice are — enough to tell someone a story.

What is still open is kept in one place: the open questions.

The word for danger that this lesson’s conversation had to borrow English for arrived at the 300-root milestone: it is bahaya, taught in Lesson 25. The gap was found here and is closed.