Matukar English

[alal] n. type of bird (big, black crow)

Speaker: Kadagoi Rawad

[anan] n. yam

(Tok Pisin) yam

Speaker: Kadagoi Rawad

[arar] n. straw bag

Speaker: Kadagoi Rawad

[baba ŋaniŋgo] v. paradigm example S/he barks and I hear it (imperf)

Speaker: Kadagoi Rawad

[bor gugur] phrase black pig

Speaker: John Agid

[bor gurgur dabok yәsman] n. really big black pig

Speaker: Kadagoi Rawad

[bor ŋa dadabawai dadeŋ abәn te ŋawe] phrase I went to the market to buy a pig

(Tok Pisin) mi go long ples blo baim blo baim pik

Speaker: Kadagoi Rawad

[bor tol gurgurmadi] n. three black pigs

Speaker: Kadagoi Rawad

[bor uya uya gurgurmadi tol main ŋahau] n. these 3 big black pigs of mine

Speaker: Kadagoi Rawad

[dikaiilkaiile diyago] v. paradigm example They are going crawling

Speaker: Kadagoi Rawad

[duba duba wamig] phrase come quick

Speaker: Kadagoi Rawad

[fud yabehahate] phrase S/he breaks up the banana

Speaker: Kadagoi Rawad

[ful rasusuni] phrase S/he tears up the mustard

Speaker: Kadagoi Rawad

[ful yaur ilonlo duninge yenago] phrase The mustard is wrapped in the leaf

Speaker: Kadagoi Rawad

[garmaurau.un] n. my hair

(Tok Pisin) gras blo het blo mi

Speaker: Kadagoi Rawad

[i aidi dibimba] v. paradigm example they will yawn

Speaker: Kadagoi Rawad

[i babawai] v. paradigm example S/he barks (desiderative)

Speaker: Kadagoi Rawad

[I ditalininge] v. paradigm example They went around (it)

Speaker: Kadagoi Rawad

[i gam babago] v. paradigm example S/he barks (imperf 2

Speaker: Kadagoi Rawad

[i gam watitiŋe] v. paradigm example S/he capsizes (completive)

Speaker: Kadagoi Rawad

[i huhugo] v. paradigm example S/he coughs (imperf)

Speaker: Kadagoi Rawad

[i lala-te madonggo] phrase S/he is at the shelter

(Tok Pisin) em I long ples bilong hait?

Speaker: Kadagoi Rawad

[i taiyamamago] v. paradigm example S/he is looking at us (excl)

(Tok Pisin) em i lukluk long mipela

Speaker: Kadagoi Rawad

[i tarpasiamame] v. paradigm example S/he made us (excl) fall/threw (excl) down

Speaker: Kadagoi Rawad

[i wau tamat, i wam tamat, rauwau] n. father-in-law

(Tok Pisin) tambu

Speaker: Kadagoi Rawad

[Justin malain ebala Wolfgangaiong] phrase Justin is tall like Wolfgang

Speaker: Kadagoi Rawad

[Kadagoi han mariu han milo milo paikamati han ab nauna] phrase Kadagoi’s betel nut and other things are planted at the front of the house

(Tok Pisin) Kadagoi planim ol buai na sampela samting mo long klostu long haus long en

Speaker: Kadagoi Rawad

[kukurek] n. chicken, duck

(Tok Pisin) kakaruk, pato

Speaker: Kadagoi Rawad

[kuloiloi balau yabikap tariyenganen han] phrase Necklaces are for decorating me for singsings

Speaker: Kadagoi Rawad

[laŋalaŋ han ar] n. railing side

Speaker: Kadagoi Rawad

[lili] pre. close to (middle)

(Tok Pisin) klostu

Speaker: Kadagoi Rawad

[maniy a waiwai da] phrase Here there are mangos (Here’s got mangos)

Speaker: Kadagoi Rawad

[mat kaiilkaiile yago] phrase Snakes crawl

(Tok Pisin) snek wokabaut long bel

Speaker: Kadagoi Rawad

[matalekalek] n. intestinal parasite

Speaker: Kadagoi Rawad

[matan huhulun] n. ancestor (lit. eyebrow b’c don’t see them b’c so old)

(Tok Pisin) tumbuna, manmeri bilong bipo

Speaker: Kadagoi Rawad

[Mathusela han milo yanik gadagadaman ebala bor milo yaninggokaiong.] phrase Mathusela’s bad way of eating food is like how pigs eat food.

Speaker: Kadagoi Rawad

[mau magar pide, anan magar pide yenago] phrase There are dried taro that fell, dried yams that fell (you can see the sticks and know that they fell off the vine)

Speaker: Kadagoi Rawad

[mon uyan, main uyan amok, mon uyan amok amok] phrase That one is good, this one is very good, that one is very very good

Speaker: Kadagoi Rawad

[musuksup] n. type of plant, fragrant, small leaves, put in arm cuffs as bilas

Speaker: Kadagoi Rawad

[ŋahau aihu huduŋan diturago maniy a] phrase My crops are all standing here

Speaker: Kadagoi Rawad

[ŋahau bor aru gurgurman] phrase my two black pigs

Speaker: John Agid

[ŋahau bor gurgurmadi uya uya] n. my big black pigs

Speaker: Kadagoi Rawad

[ŋahau bor gurgurman ] phrase my black pig

Speaker: John Agid

[ŋam aimam ŋambimba] v. paradigm example we will (excl) yawn

Speaker: Kadagoi Rawad

[ŋam gam ŋamaniŋe] v. paradigm example we (excl) ate (completive?)

Speaker: Kadagoi Rawad

[ŋam ŋamabakai] v. paradigm example we (excl) go (modal: can, must, should)

Speaker: Kadagoi Rawad

[ŋam ŋamakai] v. paradigm example we (excl) go (but…)

Speaker: Kadagoi Rawad

[ŋam ŋamanimbawai] v. paradigm example we (excl) eat (desiderative)

Speaker: Kadagoi Rawad

[ŋam ŋambuliŋgo] v. paradigm example we (excl) turn (imperf)

Speaker: Kadagoi Rawad

[ŋam ŋammainabawai] v. paradigm example we (excl) sleep (desiderative)

Speaker: Kadagoi Rawad

[ŋam ŋammainagokai] v. paradigm example we (excl) sleep (habitual)

Speaker: Kadagoi Rawad

[ŋam ŋammul] v. paradigm example we (excl) come back

(Tok Pisin) mipela kam bek

Speaker: Kadagoi Rawad

[ŋam ŋammulakai] v. paradigm example we (excl) come back (but…)

Speaker: Kadagoi Rawad

[ŋam ŋampalumbawai] v. paradigm example we (excl) run (desiderative)

Speaker: Kadagoi Rawad

[ngam ngampasi] v. paradigm example We (excl) open (it)

(Tok Pisin) mipela opim em

Speaker: Kadagoi Rawad

[ŋam ŋampidagokai] v. paradigm example we (excl) come down (habitual)

Speaker: Kadagoi Rawad

[ŋam ŋamsiŋgo] v. paradigm example we (excl) come down (imperf)

Speaker: Kadagoi Rawad

[ŋam ŋamsiŋgokai] v. paradigm example we (excl) come down (habitual)

Speaker: Kadagoi Rawad

[ŋam ŋamyumiŋkai] v. paradigm example we (excl) blow (but…)

Speaker: Kadagoi Rawad

[ngatuli paninge yap nina natun ngale sombawai] phrase I told him/her to go bring the small knife

(Tok Pisin) Mi tok save long en long kisim liklik naip i kam

Speaker: Kadagoi Rawad

[ŋau ilo uyanaba ŋau ŋaŋalayombawai] phrase I will be happy, I would like to marry you

Speaker: Kadagoi Rawad

[ŋau malal dabok lo ŋabape, ŋau ilo uyan ŋape] phrase If I could go to town, I would be happy

Speaker: Kadagoi Rawad

[ŋau malalte nal huduŋan ŋagokai] phrase I go to the village every day

Speaker: Kadagoi Rawad

[ngau mani ngasokamam ngahau wagam] n. My story of me coming here

(Tok Pisin) mi kam long hia, em stori bilong mi

Speaker: Kadagoi Rawad

[ŋau ŋauriŋgo] v. paradigm example I am folllowing

(Tok Pisin) mi bihainim

Speaker: Kadagoi Rawad

[ngau ngawe onon ngabaldo wag ilonlo ngamadondo matau yohe] phrase I went fishing, I sat in the canoe and fell asleep

Speaker: Kadagoi Rawad

[ngau ngawe onon ngabale tie ngamule ngainabawai] phrase I went fishing, finished, came back and want to sleep

(Tok Pisin) mi go tromawe huk pinis, mi kam back na mi laik silip

Speaker: Kadagoi Rawad

[ngau onon ngabalap wasing kobol kobol kasik ngawanembawai] phrase I will fish and catch many different colors of fish (now)

Speaker: Kadagoi Rawad

[ŋau sirisiri malal te tiŋagokai] phrase I don’t go to town all the time

Speaker: Kadagoi Rawad

[ŋaunen papaya diŋalep panaugo] phrase They are getting a papaya to give to me

(Tok Pisin) ol kisim popo bilong mi

Speaker: Kadagoi Rawad

[nina natun] n. little knife

(Tok Pisin) liklik naip

Speaker: Kadagoi Rawad

[nina natun milo sagaikanen han] phrase Small knives are for peeling food

(Tok Pisin) liklik naip bilong rausim skin bilong kaikai

Speaker: Kadagoi Rawad

[nub diwatitinge] phrase They spilled the water

Speaker: Kadagoi Rawad

[nubanen kukurek] n. goose

(Tok Pisin) bikpela pato

Speaker: Kadagoi Rawad

[numau aruru tote] n. ten

Speaker: John Agid

[oŋ ŋau matan numau tahaik wai tuliŋe ŋapanomba, duba panau mul] phrase You talked about the five kina (eyes) I will give you, you hurry give me it back

Speaker: Kadagoi Rawad

[ong nornen gaun ngale sope, ngau tingaipaiope] phrase if you had come with the dog yesterday, I wouldn’t be/have been mad at you

Speaker: Kadagoi Rawad

[oŋ watitiŋe] v. paradigm example You capsized

(Tok Pisin) yu kapsaitim pinis

Speaker: Kadagoi Rawad

[parendop langanaba] phrase S/he will stomp and make noise

Speaker: Kadagoi Rawad

[pusopuson] n. kidney?

(Tok Pisin) kidni?

Speaker: Kadagoi Rawad

[rairai] n. bag inside body

Speaker: Kadagoi Rawad

[rara] n. tool for spreading fire in garden

Speaker: Kadagoi Rawad

[ruberubenge] v. ake it all out ("rube" with reduplication

Speaker: Kadagoi Rawad

[sababaman] adj. unripe

Speaker: Joe Mawob

[Sileng paiin han madok ebala Malu paiinaiong] phrase Sileng Pain’s way of life is like Malu Pain’s

(Tok Pisin) Sileng Pain, sindaun bilong en em olsem Malu Pain

Speaker: Kadagoi Rawad

[Sileng paiin han tekengaman ebala Malupaiinaiong] phrase Sileng Pain’s look is like Malu pain’s (Slieng Pain looks like Malu Pain)

(Tok Pisin) Sileng Pain, look bilong en em olsem Malu Pain

Speaker: Kadagoi Rawad

[sumsum] n. lion fish? Fish on 2 toea coin

Speaker: Kadagoi Rawad

[Tamat awatunap tagtag negaba? Paiin awatunap main negabakai.] phrase How will a pregnant man give birth? A pregnant woman, now this can give birth.

(Tok Pisin) Man bel bai karim olsem wanem? Meri bel bai em karim

Speaker: Kadagoi Rawad

[tetok tagumgume maise turago] phrase slowly bent, stood up and is standing

Speaker: Kadagoi Rawad

[ti tinaiyteŋe] phrase no I didn’t see the man

Speaker: Kadagoi Rawad

[tialaŋan] v. paradigm example finish (continous)

Speaker: Kadagoi Rawad

[tiŋaitaiyondop, nina natun hona taraiyawap wai] phrase I don’t look at you, you will (like to) cut me with a small knife

(Tok Pisin) mi no lukim yu, bai yu katim mi wantaim liklik naip

Speaker: Kadagoi Rawad

[tininte] adv. on the skin

Speaker: Kadagoi Rawad

[wadad] n. my buttocks

(Tok Pisin) as blo mi

Speaker: Kadagoi Rawad

[wagagamami ab yabiŋgokai, gaumomoni onon yagokai] phrase Before he built houses, now he goes fishing (hooking)

Speaker: Kadagoi Rawad

[wagamami ŋahau bor ti, gaumoni ŋahau bor tol da] phrase I didn’t used to have (any) pigs, now I have 3

Speaker: Kadagoi Rawad

[wagamami wag langadimadi ti, gaumomoni wag main langadimadi da] phrase Before, boats didn’t have noise, now boats have noise (ie, ships have engines)

Speaker: Kadagoi Rawad

[waiwaite ngadasago ] phrase I am going up the mango tree

Speaker: Kadagoi Rawad

[wartatale] v. chew up

Speaker: Kadagoi Rawad

[raurau uyan] n. Hello

Speaker: Joe Mawob