Toki Pona: seme
seme is the question word of toki pona
It is used with other words to as what, how, when, where and why.
It is a very versitile word and should be thought of as a question mark.
For example the following statement
- ni li waso.
- That is a bird.
becomes a question by replacing waso with seme
- ni li seme?
- What is that?
The idea of replacing “what we are asking” with seme is the key to making questions in toki pona
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