noun

third person singular possessive; his, hers, its (used with a special class of objects including living things)


ami

Second-person plural pronoun; you (plural)


mi

(transitive, copulative) to be (precedes the adjective or adverb)


ai

First person singular general possessive; my (used with general-class objects)


an

third person singular possessive; his, hers, its (used with general-class objects)


we

(possessive subject marker) the (singular)


pet

Iwe upwe pwȧr ngeni kemi pwe mi wor an ewe Noun Aramas manamanen omusano tipis won fonufan. Iwe a apasa ngeni ewe mwan mi mwök, 'Upwe erenuk, kopwe uta, kopwe eki om na pet o feinno non imwom!"

2010, Ewe Kapasen God, United Bible Societies, →ISBN, Luke 5:24, page 110:

Therefore I will show you that the Son of Man has the power of forgiving sins on earth. So he said to the sick man, 'I tell you, stand, grab your bed and go to your house!"


am

First-person plural exclusive pronoun; us (exclusive)


ne

Expressing a fraction or a ratio. Preceded by a nominator and followed by the denominator.


ar

third person plural general possessive; their


ach

First-person plural inclusive general possessive; our (inclusive)


ikan

here (the place close to where the speaker is at)


fan

Ka mochen fiti fan?

Jesus a apasa ngeni Peter, "Upwe apasa ngonuk pwe non ei chok pwinin me mwen ewe chukȯ epwe kökkö, fan unungat kopwe apasa pwe kose sinei ei."

2010, Ewe Kapasen God, United Bible Societies, →ISBN, Matthew 26:34, page 55:

Jesus said to Peter, "I tell you that in this night before the chicken calls, three times you will say that you don't know me."


nei

First-person singular possessive; my (used with a special class of objects including living things)


re-

(subject marker for tense modifying adverbs) they


-er

(added to verbs as an indirect object) them


e-

Third-person singular subject marker for tense modifying adverbs.


-u

out, outwards; used to modify verb direction


-an

(added to possessive nouns) his, hers, its


amo

Amo repwe mȯronȯ ussun chok konik mi chok nichino. Amo repwe pachchacheno ussun chok ekkewe fetin won aan. Amo repwe ussun chok ekkewe pwechar sia puriretiw. Amo repwe ussun chok emon mönukon mi mȧ nupwen a uputiw.

2010, Ewe Kapasen God, United Bible Societies, →ISBN, Könupin 58:7-8, page 775:

Let them disappear like water leaking. Let them stick like the grass on the ground. Let them be like the snail we step on. Let them be like a newborn who is dead when he is born.


-i

added to intransitive verbs to make them transitive

(added to transitive verbs) him, her, it (third person singular indirect object)


iik

From Proto-Oceanic, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *hikan, from Proto-Austronesian *Sikan.


fet

Ka fet?


-ei

(added to verbs as an indirect object) me


aueta

Iwe ra apasa, "Sipwe ne aueta ew ach teninimw o ew tower epwe fakkun tekiata ngeni nang, iwe sipwe ne iteföunȯ o sisap paras fetan won unusen fonufan."

2010, Ewe Kapasen God, United Bible Societies, →ISBN, Genesis 11:4, page 12:

So they said, "We will build a city and a tower that will be very tall toward heaven, therefore we will have a popular name and we will not be scattered on all the earth."


mei

(transitive, copulative) Alternative form of mi (“to be”)


rait

Emon me emon aramas mei wor an rait an epwe manaw, tufich me kinamwe.

1996, United Nations, “Universal Declaration of Human Rights - Chuukese”, in UDHR in Unicode, retrieved 2015-07-16:

Each person has his right to have life, opportunity and peace.


kich

First-person plural inclusive pronoun; us (inclusive)


-ach

(added to possessive nouns) our (inclusive)


-te

(auxiliary) Used to express negative tense in the determinate; never


-ne

(added to tense adverbs suffixed with -pwe) quickly, soon


äm

First-person plural exclusive general possessive; our (exclusive)


-em

(added to possessive nouns) our (exclusive)


atake

Borrowed from Japanese 竹 (take, “bamboo”).


-se

(auxiliary) Negative simple present and past tense aspect marker.


u-

(subject marker for tense modifying pronouns) I


-k

(added to verbs) you (in the singular, indirect object suffix)


chon

chon Chuuk


chunga

Atun an ewe Samon a tonong non ei neni mi pwa non eu chunga seni Carl Bloch a iteni Kraist mi Apochokunata ekkewe mi Semwen non ewe Nenien Konik itan Bethesda. Bloch a chungani Jises a ekieta kinikinin mangaken eu imwan mangaku me a pwari emon "mwan mi semwen" a nom non (John 5:7) mi kokkon unukun ewe nenien konik, nge mi chok witiwit.

2013 October 5, Timothy J. Dyches, “Ka Mochen Pwe Kopwe Unus?”, in LDS.org, retrieved 2015-07-14:

The time the Lord enters in this place appears in a painting from Carl Bloch called Christ Healing the Sick in the Pool named Bethesda. Bloch painted Jesus lifting a portion of a cloth of a cloth house and he shows himself to a "sick man" in John 5:7 who is lying next to a pool, just waiting.


nounou

to use (something from a special class of objects)


ikei

here (the place where the speaker is at)


nup

Ningöchun ekkewe sou-emwen mi namanam tekia epwe ne ngawono ussun chok mwen uwan ekkewe ira fik ra kini o ochoch nupwen ra nup.

2010, Ewe Kapasen God, United Bible Societies, →ISBN, Isaiah 28:4, page 948:

The glory of the leaders is pride; it will become bad like before the harvest of the fig tree which they pick and eat before it is ripe.


noum

Second-person singular possessive; your (used with a special class of objects including living things)


si-

First-person plural inclusive subject marker for tense modifying adverbs.


saram

From Proto-Micronesian *rama, from Proto-Oceanic *ramaʀ, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *damaʀ.


ikewe

there (a place not in view of the speaker)


ngang

First-person singular pronoun in the nominative case; I


-nong

in, inside; used to modify verb direction


fonu

From Proto-Micronesian *fanua, from Proto-Oceanic *panua, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *banua, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *banua, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *banua, from Proto-Austronesian *banua. Cognate with Tahitian fenua.


tiparoch

Ekkewe mi tiparoch ra uwei nour kewe nam nge rese pwan uwei soposopun anönön,

2010, Ewe Kapasen God, United Bible Societies, →ISBN, Matthew 25:3, page 49:

Those who were foolish brought their lamps but they didn't bring oil,


-pwe

(auxiliary) Aspect marker used to express the future tense; will, shall, must.


sitoking

Borrowed from Japanese ストッキング (sutokkingu), from English stocking.


echö

Ewe chon nang a eisini ei met ua kuna. Ua ponuweni, "Echö taropwe mi numunumuno mi akkȧs non asepwan, ukukun inik feet taman o engon-me-nimu feet chönapan."

2010, Ewe Kapasen God, United Bible Societies, →ISBN, Ezekiel 5:1, page 1270:

The angel asked me what I saw. I answered, "A rolled up paper flying in the air, 30 feet long and 15 feet wide."


teninimw

te(tte)n (“line”) + -in + imw (“houses”)


fei-

feito (“to come”), feino (“to leave”)

feingaw (“hurt”), feioch (“blessing”)


kewe

(possessive subject marker) plural of we; the (plural)


kouk

Iwe nupwen an emon neir a pökuetiw efoch ira, muttir chok noun we kouk a turunong non ewe konik. A ereni Elisha, "Masta, met ei upwe ne föri, nge esap nei ewe kouk?"

2010, Ewe Kapasen God, United Bible Societies, →ISBN, 2 Kings 6:5, page 494:

When one among them was cutting down a tree, quickly his axe head fell in the water. He told Elisha, "Master, what should I do, it isn't my axe?"


pwichikar

pwichi (“to burn”) + kar + [Term?] (“hot”)


poutano

to lose (to cause something to cease to be in one's possession)


ochoch

to eat (referring to uncooked or raw foods)


omw

Second-person singular general possessive; your (singular)


ämi

second-person plural general possessive; your (plural)


taraku

Borrowed from Japanese トラック (torakku), from English truck.


weri

Iei minne, i ewe mwen uwa ngeni Kot, pwe i epwe iotek fan itan noun aramas kewe meinisin; pwe meinisin mi nuku i repwe weri manau.

1990, Ewe Puken Mormon, LDS Church, →ISBN, 2 Nifai 2:9, page 38:

Therefore, he is the firstfruits unto God, that he will pray for all of his people; that all who believe will see life.


eniyéchchúúw

(transitive) to consider (a woman) attractive


niyééch

(intransitive, of a woman) to be pretty, to be attractive


Toowis

Germany (a country in Central Europe, formed in 1949 as West Germany, with its provisional capital Bonn until 1990, when it incorporated East Germany)


-pwap

(auxiliary) Used to express tense in the distant future; will later


au-

first-person plural exclusive subject marker for tense modifying adverbs


sepenin

Borrowed from English seaplane. Disputed suggestion that the term is borrowed from German Zeppelin. This is very unlikely, as the period in history when German influence existed in Chuuk predates the invention of the dirigible by at least two decades. Furthermore, the German word for airplane is German Flugzeug which is not at all related to sepenin. Finally, sepenin itself is a derivation of the original word sepelin, which would have originated in the Chuukese outer islands dialects which pronounce the letter ‘l.’ The lagoon dialect converts this to the letter ‘n’ further confusing the matter. Children born after the popularization of modern airplane technology, in particular those children with mixed German and Chuukese heritage, have been noted to have different pronunciations converting the initial consonant "s" or "z" sound into an "a" sound. This most likely represents the transition that commercial aircraft has taken in moving away from landing on water, as was historically done throughout Micronesia where the traditional word for modes of transportation interestingly begins with "wa," as in "water." Logically this coincides with the timeline of improvements in aviation technology leading to longer flight times and more time in the air, hence the transition to the initial "a" sound.


ko-

Second-person singular subject marker for tense modifying adverbs.


fönufön

Ekkoch ekkewe ira fönufön ra mȧrita o ra pwönuono ekkewe ira.

2010, Ewe Kapasen God, United Bible Societies, →ISBN, Matthew 13:7, page 24:

Some of the tree thorns grew and choked the trees.


taia

Borrowed from Japanese タイヤ (taiya), from English tire.


u̇r

Ewe mi pworacho upwe föri pwe epwe ussun efoch u̇r non an ai we God we imwenipin, iwe esap chuwen touu seni.

2010, Ewe Kapasen God, United Bible Societies, →ISBN, Pwarata 3:12, page 577:

The one who overcomes I will make him like a pillar in the temple of my God, so he can't leave.


pu̇ng

Aramasen ewe neeni ra fakkun umöumöch ngeni kem. A poputa pu̇ng ran me patekich, iwe ra akueta ȯch ekkei, iwe ra fakkun etiwaöchu kem meinisin.

2010, Ewe Kapasen God, United Bible Societies, →ISBN, Föfför 28:2, page 252:

The people of the place they were really nice to us. It started to be rainy and cold, so they built a fire, therefore they really accepted all of us in.


ou-

(subject marker for tense modifying pronouns) you (plural)


pwiniti

(transitive) to remove, take off (one's clothing)


-mön

Counting suffix used to denote that the subject is a living entity.


-chö

Counting suffix used to denote that the subject is flat or paper-like.


-ewe

Added to an event to show that it happened in the past.

The person indicated or understood from context.


neminewe

that girl (subject previously mentioned)


echeriw

Ewe ketinas a echeriw, pwe epwe monnota ar repwe nounou. A akken me echeriw, pwe emon chon nninni epwe nounou.

2010, Ewe Kapasen God, United Bible Societies, →ISBN, Ezekiel 21:11, page 1132:

The sword he polished, so he will prepare it for them to use. He sharpened and polished it, so that a killer can use it.


-emi

(added to possessive nouns) your (plural)


pisek

Possibly from the root words pi- (“hand-held”) and sek (“pandanus mat”).


-fou

Counting suffix used to denote that the subject is round or globular.


firoski

Nupwen ra nennengonuk, kopwe pwangenau ew pwang won tittin imwom we, iwe kopwe wau om we firoski me non. Me mwer meinisin kopwe ekieta om we firoski won afarom o feinno nukun non ewe kiroch.

2010, Ewe Kapasen God, United Bible Societies, →ISBN, Ezekiel 12:5-6, page 1117:

When they look towards you, you will dig out a hole on the fence of your home, then bring out your bag from inside. Before all of them you will put your bag up on your shoulder and leave outside in the dark.


sipun

Borrowed from Japanese スプーン (supūn), from English spoon.


sisata

Iwe ra pwan uwei ngeni ir deseret, minne, ren awewen kapas, itan punechin sisata; iwe iei ra uwei ngeni ir mwicheichen sisata, me sokopaten met minne mi nom won unungen ewe fonu, foun iran sokopaten nikinik.

2015, Ewe Puken Mormon: Pwan ew Kapasen Pwarata usun Jises Kraist, LDS Church, Ether 12:3:

And they also brought with them deseret, which means the honey of bees; so now they brought with them groups of bees, and different kinds of things on the face of the land, seeds of different kinds.


nöu̇m

First-person plural exclusive possessive; our (exclusive, used with a special class of objects including living things)


nour

third person plural possessive; their (used with a special class of objects including living things)


nouni

to acquire (used with a special class of objects, including living things)


annut

Iwe, nepwin atun an aramas annut, pwan nepwin atun an aramas sakaweno.

2010, Ewe Kapasen God, United Bible Societies, →ISBN, 1 Thessalonica 5:7, page 356:

So, during the night people slept, also during the night the people were drunk.


noumi

Second-person plural possessive; your (plural; used with a special class of objects including living things)


nöüch

First-person plural inclusive possessive; our (inclusive; used with a special class of objects including living things)


itang

a specialist in a body of lore, magic, and medicine

the body of knowledge held by these people


wúút

From Proto-Oceanic *qusan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *quzan, from Proto-Austronesian *quzaN. Compare Marshallese wōt and Mokilese wud.