Toki Pona: Examples of pi
- jan pi ma tomo
- citizen (person of the city)
- jan lawa pi jan utala.
- General, Commander (leader of soliers)
- jan lawa pi tomo tawa kon
- Pilot
- jan pi pona lukin
- Pretty person
- jan pakala pi utala suli
- The wounded of the Great War
- jan pi nasin sewi Pusisin
- A Buddhist
pi does not mean “of”
Most of the time you can think of pi as “of” and there is no problem, but pi is only used as parenthesis to avoid confusion.
The danger of using pi as “of” is that you will use it when it is not needed as in:
jan pi ma
You probably ment to say “man of the field” but it was not necessary to use pi as there is no confusion to be avoided. Just say:
- jan ma
- farmer, peasant (man of the field)
Usually it only necessary to use pi if there are two or more words after the initial noun
If in doubt review Adjectives and Adverbs and Posessives
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