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Toki te Kone to English dictionary:


This document is (under construction)in progress(under construction) and can be invalidated at any time for any reason. Words are missing, formatting is missing, etc, etc. That being said, I doubt I'm going to change everything, or even most things.

As of this writing, do not submit an issue on GitHub regarding anything on this page. This policy will eventually be changed as Toki te Kone matures as a language and as I finish this page, but neither the page nor Toki te Kone are in enough of a complete state for any issues to be meaningful.

This HTML version is now the definitive Toki te Kone dictionary, obsoleting any plain-text versions as of this writing, and taking precedence over any translated versions (none authorized at this moment, not that you need any authorization).

I do try to give a decent rationale for my thought processes for definitions, or warn about any hard edges that you might encounter. Hopefully this dictionary helps you in your Toki te Kone learning experience!


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numbers:

All numbers other than lei and wan follow the same pattern as used in tu.

Thus,

all follow the same pattern as tu. Thus, oto is "eight" as a noun, "eight of" as an adjective, and "to multiply by eight" as a verb.

Making larger numbers is done by putting the digits next to each other ("wan lei" would be ten: 1 0 -> 10). Every 1000x increase, add "milu" after (5,630 -> sinko milu ). You can skip any leading zeroes in a group: wan tu milu wan tuli would be 1 2 , 1 3 -> 12,013. kiju milu milu would be nine million.

Keeping with the spirit of Toki Pona, if you hear yourself saying milu more than once, that number is certainly too big to make any sense of. I never really liked how saying a number as small as thirty eight is hard in Toki Pona (mute luka luka luka tu wan -- 20 + 5 + 5 + 5 + 2 +1), but I do understand the rationale. toki pona la, nanpa li ike. taso, toki te kone la, nanpa li pona lili ta.

A previous version of this file mentioned the number 42 in Toki Pona, which is actually simpler than I remembered (mute mute tu), but you get some quite complicated numbers before then.

As an aside, in Toki te Kone, 38 would just be tuli oto, and 42 would just be jon tu.


Ideas for words:

This list is for words I feel aren't well represented, but I'm still deciding on what they should be or if they should even be in Toki te Kone.


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