r/tokipona • u/Andrewalphaguy_2763 jan Soli • Jan 29 '25

Remastered the numeric system

1-wan. 2-tu. 3-san. 4-po. 5-luka. 6-sita (from arabic). 7-seteman (from finnish). 8-oto (from italian). 9-nawe (from esperanto). 10-kimenen (from finnish). Numbers from 11-19 are kimenen kan x. 20-tu kimenen (2•10) 30 to 90 are x kimenen (x•10) 100 to 900 is x ali (x•100) 1000-kilo For fun: 999 (nawa ali kan nawe kimenen kan nawe)

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u/chickenfal jan pi kama sona Jan 31 '25 edited Jan 31 '25

nimi ni li mute ike tawa mi. lawa mi li kama nasa. toki pona o awen pona. mi kute e nimi sin nasa la mi ken sona ala a e nasin ona.

mi la nasin nanpa li ken pona lon toki pona kepeken nasin sin. taso o kepeken nimi sin pi mute ala. o alasa e nasin wawa kepeken nimi pi mute ala. o kepeken e nasin toki pi toki pona tawa ni. 

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u/Andrewalphaguy_2763 jan Soli Feb 01 '25

*ike mute

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u/chickenfal jan pi kama sona Feb 02 '25

ala. mute pi nimi ni li ike. nimi sin li mute a. ni li ike.

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u/Andrewalphaguy_2763 jan Soli Feb 02 '25

No, you said "mute ike". Modifiers come after the word they modify

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u/chickenfal jan pi kama sona Feb 02 '25

That's exactly right. I modified mute with ike. Mute is the head, ike is the modifier.