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Tok Pisin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb
[edit]tokim trans., intransitive tok
- tell
- 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 1:22:
- Na God i mekim gutpela tok bilong givim strong long ol. Em i tokim ol olsem, “Yupela ol kain kain samting bilong solwara, yupela i mas kamap planti na pulapim olgeta hap bilong solwara. Na yupela ol pisin, yupela i mas kamap planti long graun.”
- So God made a blessing to give them all strength. He told them all this, "All of you different things in the ocean, you must grow in number and fill up every part of the sea. And all of you birds, you must grow in number on the earth.