Lesson 25: Doing and being

Prerequisite: Lesson 24.

The other half of the words that entered at 180 roots without a lesson of their own. Again, no new grammar.

Twenty words are new here: nine verbs and eleven qualities. Twelve more are gathered with them because this is where they group — you met each of those earlier, and they are listed apart, under the lesson that taught them. Until September 5, 2026 all thirty-two sat in one table headed New words.

New words

Word	Meaning	Word	Meaning
dengar	to hear	plen	full
senti	to feel	kosong	empty
tanya	to ask	safi	clean
respon	to answer	muskil	difficult
leta	to bring	senang	happy
pone	to put	yanlis	wrong
mati	to die	bahaya	danger
start	to begin	sukut	silence
stop	to stop	historia	history
		kultura	culture
		natura	nature

Words you already have

Word	Meaning	Taught in
kanta	to sing	Lesson 18
kotor	dirty	Lesson 18
problema	problem	Lesson 18
sedih	sad	Lesson 18
baid	far	Lesson 19
hidup	to live	Lesson 19
punya	to have	Lesson 19
beca	to sell	Lesson 20
ide	idea	Lesson 20
kuat	strong	Lesson 21
dekat	near	Lesson 24
lihat	to look, to watch	Lesson 24

The two from Lesson 24 are the sharpest case: that lesson says in as many words that nothing before it has taught dekat and lihat, and then this page, the very next one, called them new again.

Fourteen verbs


Mi lihat bulan.	I look at the moon.
Yu dengar musik?	Do you hear the music?
Mi senti korku.	I feel fear.
Mi punya du kanis.	I have two dogs.
Ta tanya nama mi.	He asks my name.
Mi respon: “Nama mi es Sol.”	I answer: “My name is Sol.”
Tacir beca fruta in market.	The merchant sells fruit at the market.
Mama mi leta ca.	My mother brings tea.
Mi pone libro in tabla.	I put the book on the table.
Anak kanta hao.	The child sings well.
Insan hidup, insan mati.	People live, people die.
Kita start rabota in pagi.	We start work in the morning.
Mi stop kab mi bimar.	I stop when I am sick.

Full and empty, clean and dirty


Gelas plen. Gelas itu kosong.	The glass is full. That glass is empty.
Akua ini safi.	This water is clean.
Kamisa mi kotor. Mi gasil ta.	My shirt is dirty. I wash it.
Piring safi in tabla.	The clean plates are on the table.

Near and far, strong and hard


Ponte dekat. Pahar baid.	The bridge is near. The mountain is far.
Farasi kuat.	The horse is strong.
Tarik ini muskil.	This road is difficult.
Lingua ini no muskil. Lingua ini asan.	This language is not difficult. It is easy.

Happy and sad


Mi senang porke yu sini.	I am happy because you are here.
Ta sedih porke rafiki ta suda go.	She is sad because her friend went.
Sukut in hutan.	There is silence in the forest.

Big words


Ide ini baru.	This idea is new.
Es problema? No, no es problema.	Is there a problem? No, there’s no problem.
Habari ini yanlis.	This news is wrong.
Es bahaya in tarik itu.	There is danger on that road.
Mi studi historia aur kultura.	I study history and culture.
Natura sundar.	Nature is beautiful.

A conversation

— Yu senang o sedih? — Mi senang! Mi suda naiti rabota baru. — Nali? — In skola baru. Mi saufa es mualim anak-anak. — Muskil? — Ya, muskil. Aur hao. Mi ama anak-anak. — Mi senti yu saufa es mualim paling hao.

Are you happy or sad? — I’m happy! I’ve found a new job. — Where? — At a new school. I’ll be the children’s teacher. — Difficult? — Yes, difficult. And good. I love children. — I feel you will be the best teacher.

Practice

Mi dengar golos yu. — I hear your voice.
Gelas ini plen, gelas itu kosong. — This glass is full, that one is empty.
Mi tanya, ta respon. — I ask, she answers.
Es bahaya porke tarik kotor. — There is danger because the road is dirty.
Mi senti mi bisa kanta! — I feel I can sing!
Natura, historia, kultura — tri ide kabir. — Nature, history, culture — three big ideas.

What you can already say

Twenty-five lessons and 300 roots — every one now taught somewhere. Lesson 26 adds no words and teaches the two rules that were granted after this page was written. check.py enforces that from here on: a word added to the dictionary without a lesson will fail the build.