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THE TERNATESE LANGUAGE
Other Parts of Speech
Adverbs of time are: “today,” sowange; “tomorrow,” difutu; “in the morning,” lofo
nitah; “in the afternoon,” wange cako; “in the evening,” sofutu or wange lobi; “at midnight,”
futu konorah. Adverbs of place are: “here,” kane, “there,” kage; “where,” kasaha;
“downward” or “southward,” tarah; “upward” or “northward,” ie.
Adverbs of negation are: “not,” uwah, riuwah, malo, hangu; “still,” adi; “not yet,”
hangu moju.
Among the prepositions, toma and si are the most common.
There are many synonyms for the conjunctions: “and,” [p. 202] mara, simarah,
silom, so, sarta; “but,” mai, tatapi, dugah-dugah; “for,” karana, sababu, etc.; “or,” bolo.
The main interjections are O, He, and Sio!
For further details I refer the reader to the “Word-List,” in which the correct
meanings are explained with examples; hence it is unnecessary to repeat them here.
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