"bai" meaning in Tok Pisin

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      "english": "completive aspect",
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      "word": "bin"
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      "word": "stap"
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      "word": "bai"
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          "english": "Then God said, \"Now let us make people who will become like us. We'll put them in charge of the fish and the birds, of all kinds of animals and of all things on the ground.\"",
          "ref": "1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 1:26:",
          "text": "Bihain God i tok olsem, “Nau yumi wokim ol manmeri bai ol i kamap olsem yumi yet. Bai yumi putim ol i stap bos bilong ol pis na ol pisin na bilong olgeta kain animal na bilong olgeta samting bilong graun.”",
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        "will; to be going (to do something); marks future tense."
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          "english": "I want you to feel safe/relaxed.",
          "text": "Mi laik bai yu stap bel isi.",
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          "english": "And they always ask me to treat them justly and stay close to them so that they may feel secure.",
          "text": "Na ol i save askim mi long mekim stretpela pasin long ol na stap klostu long ol, bai em i ken amamas.",
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      "word": "baimbai"
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      "english": "progressive aspect or durative aspect",
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      "english": "habitual aspect",
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          "text": "Bihain God i tok olsem, “Nau yumi wokim ol manmeri bai ol i kamap olsem yumi yet. Bai yumi putim ol i stap bos bilong ol pis na ol pisin na bilong olgeta kain animal na bilong olgeta samting bilong graun.”",
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          "english": "And they always ask me to treat them justly and stay close to them so that they may feel secure.",
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