Appendix:Toki Pona/lon
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Toki Pona
[edit]Glyph origin
[edit]sitelen pona | |
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sitelen sitelen |
- sitelen pona: A dot above a horizontal line, thus on some surface or at someplace.
Etymology
[edit]From Tok Pisin long (“at, in, on”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Preposition
[edit]lon
Adjective
[edit]lon
- present
- tenpo lon
- the present time
- real; true; existent; actual
- lipu ni li toki e ijo lon.
- This book talks about true facts.
Noun
[edit]lon
Verb
[edit]lon
- (intransitive) to exist; to be present, real, or true
- waso li lon ala.
- Birds aren't real.
- there is; it is in the dummy pronoun sense
- suno li lon.
- It's sunny.
- 2021 July 18, jan Kapilu, “lon ma tomo pi tenpo pini suli”, in Sonja Lang, compiler, Toki Pona Dictionary, page 401:
- insa pi ma ni la kasi pi kule ale li lon,
- Inside this land, there are plants of all colors,
- to be awake
- (transitive) to cause to exist; to create, actualize, or bring about
- (transitive) to prove
Particle
[edit]lon
Usage notes
[edit]The way to affirm polar questions as given in Toki Pona: The Language of Good is to repeat the verb of the question. However, lon is also commonly used for this purpose, and this sense is acknowledged in Toki Pona Dictionary.
Categories:
- Toki Pona terms derived from Tok Pisin
- Toki Pona terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:Toki Pona/on
- Toki Pona lemmas
- Toki Pona prepositions
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- Toki Pona adjectives
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- Toki Pona verbs
- Toki Pona intransitive verbs
- Toki Pona terms with quotations
- Toki Pona transitive verbs
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