Notes for Cut and Break Clips
cb01
‘o xea yalewa gona e basia ‘ixo ai sulu - the woman is tearing the cloth
‘o xea gona yalewa e basia ‘ixo ai sulu - also acceptable
yalewa gona e basia ‘ixo ai sulu - also acceptable
‘o xea gona yalewa basia ‘ixo ai sulu - omitting the “e” is acceptable in informal speech, but never in writing
*‘o xea gona yalewa basia ‘ixo sulu - omitting the ‘ai’ not good
*e sa yalewa gona e basia ‘ixo ai sulu 
basia - to tear
yalewa - woman/girl
sulu - cloth
gona - that
yalewa gona - that lady
gona yalewa - that is a lady
ai - that
*we came back to cb02 later*
cb03
E sa ‘ea ‘ixo a banixacu - He/she/it is planting the branch. (Not accurate to cb02 video)
E sa ‘aya ‘ixo a banixacu - He/she/it is cutting the branch.
‘aya - chopping
banixacu - branch
O xea ‘aya ‘ixo a banixacu - He/she/it is chopping the branch.
cb04
O Yuri e sele’a ai sulu - Yuri has cut the cloth (it’s done, he’s done it)
O Yuri e sa sele’a ai sulu - Yuri is cutting the cloth (it’s happening right now)
O Yuri sa sele’a ai sulu - Yuri has cut the cloth (he’s done it)
sele’a - cutting
Yuri - name (male)
cb05
E sa musumusu laxa ‘abani xuwawa - He is breaking the guava branch. (present moment) 
E sa musumusu ‘abani xuwawa - He is breaking the guava branch. (present moment)
‘abani - branch
xuwawa - guava
‘abani xuwawa - guava branch
*banixacu xuwawa - not acceptable for “guava branch”
musu - to break
musumusu - to break
laxa - connector, like “the” (obj marker?)
*laxa ‘abani xuwawa 
O xea musumusu laxa ‘abani xuwawa - He broke the guava branch. (Over, already happened) 
E musumusu laxa ‘abani xuwawa - He broke the guava branch. (Over, already happened) 
cb06
O xea e ‘auauva’a e civo ni sele’a ‘ixo ira a xarote - He looks angry while he is cutting the carrot 
*O xea e ‘auauva’a e civo sele’a ‘ixo ira a xarote - not ok
O xea e ‘auauva’a e civo - He seems angry
*O xea ‘auauva’a civo - not ok
O xea ‘auauva’a e civo - “He seems angry”
*O xea e ‘auauva’a civo - not ok
*O xea e sele’a ‘ixo ira a xarote ni ‘auauva’a e civo - not ok
‘auauva’a - seems like
civo - angry
ira a xarote - a lot of, more than one carrot
xarote - carrot
O xea sele’a ‘ixo a xarote - He’s cutting the carrot.
O xea sele’a ‘ixo ira a xarote. - He’s cutting a lot of carrots. 
cb07
E tuga e laxo mai vasauri - Someone came out all of a sudden 
E tuga e laxo vasauri - Someone came/?left all of a sudden
Tuga e laxo mai vasauri - Someone came out all of a sudden (in the moment, you just said “someone left”, not “oh someone left” like in example with “e”)
E tuga laxo mai vasauri - Someone came out all of a sudden 
E tuga - someone
laxo - go or come
mai - in/towards speaker/come
laxo mai - “come in” (what you’d say when someone is at door)
Vasauri - sudden/all of a sudden
cb08
E basia vaixea ‘ixo a taurasese lexalexa. - The shorts are tearing themselves (‘basia’ sounds like ‘basi’ here)
taurasese - shorts/pants (borrowing from ‘trousers’)
lexalexa - short
taurasese lexalexa - shorts
taurasese balavu - pants 
vaixea - itself
cb09
Sa kai tuga a selesele ni xarote lialia e caxava ‘u o xea ‘agane gona - What a crazy way of cutting a carrot, that that guy was doing (not x for ‘kai’)
Sa kai tuga a selesele ni xarote lialia e sele’a ‘u o xea ‘agane gona - What a crazy way of cutting a carrot, that the guy was cutting
Sa kai tuga a selesele ni xarote lialia - What a crazy way of cutting a carrot
Sa kai tuga a selesele lialia ni xarote - What a crazy way of cutting a carrot
*Sa kai tuga e sele’a ni xarote lialia - What a way to cut a crazy living carrot


sele - knife
sele’a - to cut (properly)
selesele - to cut (noun? -- not sure what redup is doing)
lialia - crazy
Sa kai tuga a selesele vare ni xarote - What a clever way to cut a carrot
*Sa kai tuga e selesele vare ni xarote - not good with ‘e’ instead of ‘a’
Sa kai tuga e sele’a vare ni xarote - What a clever way of cutting a carrot
Sa kai tuga a ‘a’a lialia ni banixacu - What a crazy way of cutting a branch
Sa kai tuga a ‘ama’amaxa ni xilai - What a crazy man (because of the actions that’s he’s doing - said behind the scenes, don’t want to make it too obvious, you wouldn’t want to say this while the man was listening - wouldn’t use lialia here because it’s not respectful)
Sa kai tuga a ‘ama’amaxa ni lialia - What a crazy man (to a friend, joking/friendly teasing)


e caxava ‘u o xea ‘agane gona - what that guy did (lacks context) (‘u stresses it = ‘that guy did it’)
E sele’a ‘u o xea ‘agane gona - that guy sliced it
‘agane gona - that guy
‘agane gone - young guy
‘Agane gone gona - that young guy/boy
Gone gona - that child 
‘Alewa gone - young girl
‘Alewa gone gona - that young girl
Bau - standard Fijian
E caxava o xea ‘agane gona - what that guy did


cb10
Sa kai bai ma’ai ‘axina a selesele ni xarote - This person knows how to cut a carrot properly.
bai - knows how
ma’ai - properly (smartly?)
a xina - the way
a selesele - the cutting (nominalization of sele)
a selesele ni xarote - the cutting of the carrot
Sa kai bai ma’ai ‘axina a ‘aya a vunixacu. - This person knows how to chop a tree properly.
cb02
‘O xea sa musuxa a seini - He broke the chain (already done)
musuxa - to break/cut (with a knife)
seini - chain (borrowed)
‘O xea e sa musuxa a seini - He is breaking the chain 
*’O xea sa musuxa e seini 
*’O xea sa musuxa seini 


cb11

E varai ‘axina e rua a bilo lala - She is showing two empty cups
bilo - cup, mug (general word for all the cups)
Bilo lase - glass (as in cup)
lala - empty
Vele i lase - porcelain plates
Ma‘a iloilo - glasses (spectacles)
Iloilo - mirror
Gona rua a bilo lala - That’s two empty cups
varai - showing
‘axina - that
E varai ‘axina - She is showing that (you already know what it is)
E varai ‘axina ai sele - She is showing the (particular) knife
E varai ‘axina a sele - She is showing the knife (ONLY ONE)
E varai ‘axina e tuga a sele. - She is showing one knife.
E varai ‘axina e tuga ai sele. - She is showing one of the of the knives
*E varai ‘axina e ‘olu ai sele. - She is showing three knives.
E varai ‘axina e ‘olu a sele. - She is showing three knives.
E varia ‘axina ai sulu - She is showing the cloth
*O Yuri e sa sele’a e tuga ai xarote
*O Yuri e sa sele’a ‘ixo ai wele’i


cb12
E vayaga axi ’u ai sele me musuxa ‘au’auva’a ‘ixo a vadre’i - Using a knife, she’s cutting something that looks like a bandage.
*E vayaga axi ’u ai sele musuxa ‘au’auva’a ‘ixo a vadre’i - need the ‘me’ like ‘to’ - it’s a connector of some sort
‘au’auva’a - like, seems like
vayaga  - using
vayaga axi ‘u ai sele - using the knife 
vayaga axi ‘u ai sele me musuxa - using the knife to cut
vayaga axi - using the (incomplete)
vayaga axi ‘u a banixacu - using the branch
vadre’i - bandage 
*E vayaga axi ’u ai sele ‘au’auva’a me musuxa ‘ixo a vadre’i - Not good for ‘Using a knife, she’s cutting something that looks like a bandage.’, tried moving ‘au’auva’a
gona i xo’i - those are scissors
A xo’i gona e ga’a - those scissors are sharp
E vayaga axi ‘u ai xo’i me xo’ia ‘au’auva’a ‘ixo a vadre’i - She’s using the scissors to cut something like a bandage.
E sa xo’ia ‘ixo ‘au’auva’a a vadre’i - She’s cutting (with scissors) something like a bandage
E sa xo’ia ‘au’auva’a ‘ixo a vadre’i - She cut something like a bandage
E ‘au’auva’a a vadre’i - it seems like a bandage
‘O xea ‘au’auva’a e rixa ‘ixo. - it seems like she’s running
E sa ‘au’auva’a e xo’ia ‘ixo a vadre’i - It seems like she’s cutting the bandage.


*we come back to cb13 later*


cb14
Sa sele’a meleni - (S)he cut the watermelon 
E sa sele’a meleni - (S)he’s cutting the watermelon 
meleni - watermelon (no other melons in Bua)
cb15
Sa varoca ‘ixo ‘abani xuwawa - She/he is sawing the guava branch
Sa varoca ‘abani xuwawa - She/he has sawed the guava branch
E varoca ‘abani xuwawa - She/he has sawed the guava branch
E varoca ‘ixo ‘abani xuwawa - Right now, as you watch, she/he is sawing the guava branch
E sa varoca ‘abani xuwawa - She/he is sawing the guava branch, softly
E sa varoca ‘ixo ‘abani xuwawa - She/he is sawing the guava branch, could be hasty, (emphatic?), meant in the sense you don’t really want to saw the guava branch
?varoca ‘ixo ‘abani xuwawa
?Sa e varoca ‘abani xuwawa 
varoca - to saw
cb16
Sa xamusu a waya mai na xacu - The wire has broken from the wood
xacu - wood
bani - stick (thinner/smaller)
xamusu - to break (by itself)
musuxa - to break (something?)
waya - wire
mai na - from the
Sa xamusu a xacu - The wood broke.
Sa xamusu ‘ixo a xacu. - The wood is breaking.
‘O xea sa ‘exevu ‘axina a buxa - He started the fire.
‘O xea sa ‘exevu ‘axina a yavu. - He started the fire (big fire).
Sa ‘exevu a yavu. - The fire started.
A yavu sa ‘exevu a buxa.- The fire started. 
‘Exevu - start
Buxa = firewood, fire
cb17
E xamusu vasauri e tuga a xarote - One carrot broke suddenly
cb18
E mucu bexa ai sele e xai maka ni rawa ni sele’a a moli - I think the knife is blunt, he can’t cut the orange
E mucu bexa ai sele - I think the knife is blunt
Bexa - flying fox/bat
*Bexa e mucu ai sele - Not good for ‘I think the knife is blunt’
E lialia bexa a gone. - I think the child is crazy.
E xai maka ni rawa ni sele’a a moli - He/she can’t cut the orange
*E xai maka ni rawa e sele’a a moli. - can’t have ‘e’ instead of ‘ni’
Maka ni rawa ni sele’a - He can’t cut (something) (in the middle of a context - you know what it was)
bexa - think
mucu - blunt
‘Au’auva’a e mucu ai sele - it seems like the knife is blunt
maka ni rawa - cannot
sele’a a moli - cut the orange
moli - any type of citrus
moli taiti - orange (thick skin difficult to peel)
‘O xea rixa. - She ran.
‘O xea rixa bexa. - She probably ran, she maybe ran
‘Io bexa - Yes, maybe.
cb13
E vayaga’a ‘axina ma’au me sele a wa - He’s using an axe to cut the string 
ma’au - axe
wa - string
A xina - therewith, thereby
*E vayaga’a a xina ma’au sele a wa. - not allowed to leave out the ‘me’
Sele’a wa! - Cut the string!
E ma sele’a wa - S/he cut the string (in the past). (You’re just speaking kind of fast, so you drop the ‘a’ before the ‘wa’)
E ma sele’a a wa. - S/he cut the string (more proper)
Ma sele’a a wa. - S/he cut the string. (in a conversation, can’t just start up with that.)
Sa sele’a a wa - S/he cut the string, can also mean ‘the string is cut now (but it wasn’t before)’


cb19
Sa musuxa rawa abani xuwawa - She was able to break the guava branch
Rawa - able/can
*Sa musxa maxa ni rawa abani xuwawa - Not good for ‘she can’t break the guava branch’
Maxa ni rawa’a ni musuxa abani xuwawa. - She can’t break the guava branch.
Sa kai maxa ni rawa’a ni musuxa abani xuwawa. - She can’t break the guava branch anymore. (She was able to do it before but she can’t do it now)


(Explore later: is -‘a a verbalization thing? (rawa/rawa’a, sele/sele’a))


cb20
E sele’a ixo a wakawaka ni buxa - S/he’s cutting the kindling 
E sele’a ‘ixo a wakawaka (in the middle of a conversation, you already know they’re talking about kindling)
*wakawaka - can’t have wakawaka by itself (without context)
Wakawaka ni buxa - kindling (with context)


cb21 
E vayaga’a ‘axina ai ‘uxi me sele’a a xarote - He is using the hammer to cut the carrot
E ‘uxi’uxi ‘ixo. - He’s hammering
Ai ‘uxi - the hammer


cb22
E vaxasama ‘axina e tuga xa me vola - She is thinking about writing something
vola - writing
E volavola ‘ixo. - He’s writing
Gona peni - That’s a pen
Penixacu - pencil
E vaxasama - Think
E tuga xa - something
*E me vola
Me vola - to write
E vaxasama ‘axina e tuga xa me sele’a - She’s thinking about cutting something
*E vaxasama ‘axina e tuga xa sele’a - can’t drop the ‘me’




cb23
E vayaga’a axina ai ‘uxi me basia ai sulu - She/s using the hammer to tear the cloth


cb24
E xo’ia ‘ixo a wa valalai - He’s cutting the string shorter. (“He’s shortening the string”)
A gone lalai - Small child
*A gone valalai - can’t use ‘valalai’ for ‘small child’
valalai - smaller/shorter
Lala - empty
Lalai - smaller
A gone lalai - Small child
E xo’ia ‘ixo a veva - He’s cutting the paper
E xo’ia ‘ixo a veva varawuni - He’s cutting the paper (to make it) rounder
Rawuni - round
A veva rawuni - round paper
A veva varawuni - round paper (referring to that particular type of rounded paper, doesn’t just mean ‘round paper’ in general, paper that was made round)
A gone xoi e lalai mai vei xea a gone gona. - This child is smaller than that child. 
*A gone xoi e valalai mai vei xea a gone gona. - Can’t use valailai with child
Valalai a masima - a pinch of salt


cb25
Sa musuxa rawa a banixacu kaka - She/he was able to break the hard branch, the hard branch can be broken
kaka - hard
A vei arogi ma dredre - The exam was hard
*A vei arogi kaka - Can’t say ‘the exam was hard’ this way
A banixacu ma dredre me musu - The branch was hard (difficult) to break


cb26
O Jone ma sele’a e tuga xarote - John has cut the carrot
Jone - John
O Jone sele’a e tuga xarote. - John is cutting the carrot. 


cb27
Sa xo’ia ulu balavu oi Maria - S/he cut Maria’s long hair (can’t mean ‘I cut Maria’s long hair’ or ‘they cut Maria’s hair’, just one person, singular)
ulu - hair
balavu - long (already in flex)
Au xo’ia ulu balavu oi Maria. - I cut Maria’s long hair.
Au sa xo’ia ulu balavu oi Maria. - I cut Maria’s long hair.


cb28
O Mela ma vaxasama ‘axina me sele’a a vacava a ixa - Mela thought about how to cut the fish
vacava - how
ixa - fish
O Mela ma vaxasama ‘axina me sele’a a ixa. - Mela thought about cutting the fish.


BUA1-009
TODO: check cb13
We have:         E vayaga’a a xina ma’au me sele a wa; Sa maka ni sele a xarote
Should it be?         E vayaga’a a xina ma’au me sele’a a wa; Sa maka ni sele’a a xarote
Yes (Sisilia confirmed)




cb29
E vayaga’a a xina ligana me vocia vare a mena moli - She is using her hands to peel her citrus properly.
vocia - peel
mena - her (3poss) + liquid
vare - properly
E vayaga’a a xina ligana me vocia vare a xena moli - She is using her hands to peel the citrus properly. 
Xena - his/her (3poss) + food
*E vayaga’a a xina ligana me vocia a mena moli vare  (vare in wrong position)
cb30
Sa vocia xena tiaina dreu - She is peeling her ripe banana
dreu - ripe
cb31
E ‘uxia xacu e na tela ni teveli - She is hammering the stick on the table
gona ‘uxi - that’s a hammer
teveli - table (loan word)
e na tela ni teveli - on top of the table
gona xacu e na tela ni teveli - that (is a) stick on the table
‘Uxia - to hammer
cb32
Sa tuga xa levu o xea musuxa a xarote e na ligana - It’s amazing, he broke the carrot with his hand
Sa kai tuga xa levu o xea musuxa a xarote e na ligana - (also fine with kai)
Sa tuga xalevu - It’s amazing
O xea musuxa a karote (e) nai ‘uxi - He broke the carrot with a hammer
*Nai ligana 
Tuga xoli lailai - the very small dog, later can say “sa tuga xalailai” for like, the VERY SMALL dog, like, the SMALLEST
Sa tuga xalialia - the CRAZIEST/WILDEST one/thing (e.g. when seeing a dog in a stroller)
  

Tuga + xa- for emphasis, the most (not actually comparative, more hyperbolously)
cb33
(O xea) Kasenivuli bexa sa varau me vavulici ira gone vuli - The teacher is maybe getting ready to teach (many) students
vavulici - teach
Gone vuli - student
vuli - learn
kasenivuli - teacher
kase - old
bexa - maybe
varau - getting ready (also ‘to set the table’)




cb34
1) E vayaga’a a xina tuga xa xauxauwa ni ligana e vayaga’a a xina me basia ‘ixini sulu.
She’s using her strong hands, she’s using them to tear a piece of the cloth.
E vayaga’a a xina me basia ‘ixini sulu - She’s using them(ambig?) to tear a piece of the cloth
2) Tuga xa xauxauwa ni ligana e vayaga’a a xina me basia ‘ixini sulu - Her hands were SO STRONG, she used them to tear a piece of the cloth
Tuga xa xauxauwa ni ligana - Her hands were SO STRONG
Tuga xa xauxauwa - It was SO STRONG
‘Ixini - piece
cb35
E musumusu laxina a wawa - He broke the string into even more pieces
laxina - many/even more pieces
cb36
(E) sa basia ‘ixini sulu igaiga re - She tears a piece of the good-looking cloth 
cb37
Sa kai tuga xalevu e vayaga’a xina ‘u a ma’au me bolaxa a xarote - It was surprising, he used the axe to chop the carrot (‘u tells you that is has happened already, that’s how you can tell it’s passed tense)
Ma’au - axe
bolaxa - chop
Sa kai tuga xalevu - One big thing
Sa tuga xalevu - Emphasized
Sa kai tuga xalevu e vayaga’a ‘axina ‘ixo a ma’au me bolaxa a xarote - It’s suprising he is in the process of using the axe to chop the carrot (compare ‘ixo with ‘u)


cb38
E dre’a a wa sa kai xamusu - He was pulling the string and it broke
Sa kai xamusu - It(ambig) broke


cb39
Uu se kai tuga xalevu e vayaga’a ‘axina a ma’au me vaxavoro ‘axina a xuro ni vi’i - Ohhhh, it was one big thing, using the axe to smash the Fijian pot
Uu se kai tuga xalevu e vayaga’a ‘axina a ma’au me ‘uxia a xuro ni vi’i - Ohhhh, it was one big thing, using the axe to hammer the pot
Uu se kai tuga xalevu - Ohhhh, it was one big thing
Vaxavoro - to break, to smash (transitive?)
Vaxavoroxa - breaking, smashing into small pieces
Voroxa - break (intransitive?)
Voro - swallow (noun, to match ‘to swallow’, not bird)
Voroya - to swallow 
xuro ni vi’i - Fijian pot
Vi’i - Fijian
Xuro - pot
cb40
E tuga bexa a xa e civo’a ni sa xavoro a vele’i lase - Maybe he is angry because the plate is broken / angry about the plate being broken
*E tuga bexa a xa e civo’i ni sa xavoro a vele’i lase - can’t have civo’i here, has to be civo’a
Vele’i lase - porcelain plates (from prev. video)
Sa xavoro a vele’i lase - the plate is broken
E tuga bexa a xa e civo’a - Maybe he’s mad about something
‘O xea civo’i au. - He’s mad at me
*‘O xea civo’a au - Not good for ‘He’s mad at me’
*Au civo’a ‘o xea - Not good for ‘I’m mad at him’
Au civo’i xea - I’m mad at him
Au sa civo - I’m so angry
Au sa civo’a - I’m angry at… (incomplete sentence)
Civo’a - angry
Xavoro - to be broken
cb41
‘O Alumita e sa tolava a ‘ona xisi lailai - Alumita opened her little box (note: ga’o on first ‘o’ is okay)
‘O Alumita e sa tolava ‘ona xisi lailai - also acceptable (less enunciated)
tolava - to open
xisi - box
Alumita - name (female only)




cb42
O Mela e rawa ni musuxa banixacu e na ligana - Mela is able to break the branch with her hand

(note: no ga’o on first ‘o’, but you could put it in writing, just doesn’t sound natural, very formal)


Xamusu - broke, break
Musuxa - break it
*Xamusuxa
Vaxamusu - (someone) breaks (something)
Musu - break (command, e.g. I’m holding onto one part of a long loaf of bread, you’re holding onto the other, you say  “okay, musu” and you both break it)
Musu’a - (go ahead) break it (e.g. you probably have a whole sugar cane, and you say ‘cut it’) = musuxa
Musu’i - broke it
*Au sa musu’i
Sa musu’i a talo - I cut the taro = The taro is cut now
cb43
E ‘onoxa xarote kai xamusu - He poked the carrot and it broke.
‘onoxa - poke
*Vaxa’ono - not good for ‘to poke’
Va‘onoxa - poking many times
*Vasele’a - not good for ‘cutting many times’
Selesele’a - cutting many times
Musumusulaxa - breaking many times
Basibasia - tearing many times


E ‘onoxa vaxauxauwa a xarote kai mai ‘ini’ini me xamusu - He poked it hard enough that it broke
‘Ini’ini - the end (eventually, “in the end”, “because of that action, the end result was”)
‘ini - end (like end of a story)
A ‘ini a ‘alanoa - The end of the story
vaxauxauwa - hard (as in strongly) (diff than “xaxa - hard” or “dredre - difficult”)
E xauxauwa a kuwawa - The guava is hard
E kaka a kuwawa - The guava is hard
E ‘onoxa vakaka a xarote (Poking using your hand and not a tool, doesn’t make sense)
E ‘onoxa vaxauxauwa a xarote 
E ‘onoxi xea vakaka - He poked her hard (with finger)
(hard head?) 
Vesu mona - Controlling someone else’s mind (e.g. manipulate) - the dog was able to persuade the bird to sing
Vesu - bound
Mona - brain
Vagenegene - hard headed
*gene - not a word
Cb44
E igaiga re a ‘ini gona a cava bexa e ‘ixo i loma? - That can is beautiful, what is inside?
igaiga re - good looking
‘Ini - tin can
Loma - inside
a cava bexa - what is?
A cava gona? - What is that?
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O Mela e vayaga’a ‘axina a banixacu me rawa ni basia ‘axina ai sulu, se me tana e tuga a kara e nai sulu - Mela is using the branch so she can tear the cloth, maybe to put a hole in the cloth
tana - put, throw away (here it means ‘put’)
*O Mela e vayaga’a ‘axina a banixacu me rawa ni basia ‘axina ai sulu, bexa me tana e tuga a kara e nai sulu - Can’t use ‘bexa’ instead of ‘se’ here
O Mela e vayaga’a a xina a banixacu me tana xina e tuga a kara e na ‘ixini e na ona ai sulu - Mela is using the branch to put a hole in a piece of her cloth 
(E) sa basia ‘ixini sulu - She tears a piece of cloth (from past video)
Cb46
E sa asere a tali. - The rope is loosened.
Asere - loosened
Cb47
O io, e maxa ni tuga a xa ma 'ixo i ligana - Oh, she had nothing in her hand
O io - oh yes (no option for having a ga’o)
*’O io - ga’o not acceptable!! (for this particular sentence)
Maxa - nothing
Ma - like ‘was’, past
cb48
Sa tuga ma’au mucu e maka ni ‘o’olo a ‘ona bolaxa a xacu - The axe was very blunt (lit: It was one blunt axe) he wasn’t fast enough for chopping the wood 
Bolaxa - chop
Xacu - log, wood
mucu - blunt
‘o’olo - fast, quick
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O Save sa musuxa varua a wa - Save cut the string in two.
Save - name
Musuxa varua - cut into two
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Amu macala a cava e mana’i xa xoi e vayaga’a a xina ‘ixo ai ‘uxi me sele’a xina a wa - What on earth is happening, that guy is using a hammer to cut the string
Amu macala - I don’t know?  What on earth?
Macala - to know


O xea amu macala - S/he doesn’t know


cava mana’i - what’s going on/what’s happening


xoi - that person (dem)
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E vayaga’a a xina ‘u ai sele levu me sele’a a meleni - (S)he’s using a big knife to cut the melon.
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Sa atola ‘u a draxana - She opened her mouth
atola - open
draxana - her mouth
draxamu - your mouth
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Au’auva’a e tuga xauxamea e ‘onoxa xa kai cariba - Seems like an iron rod he poked with and it (the metal rod) splintered
Au’auva’a e tuga xauxamea e ‘onoxa e kai cariba - Seems like an iron rod he poked with and something else (referred to with the ‘e’) splintered


*Au’auva’a e tuga xauxamea e ‘onoxa e tuga kai cariba - this (with ‘e tuga’) doesn’t make sense
Au’auva’a e tuga xauxamea - seems like an iron rod
Xa kai cariba - it splintered (ambiguous what “it” is)
*O xea kai cariba - doesn’t sound right, o xea refers to a person
E kai cariba - It splintered
xauxamea - metal rod
cariba - splintered
E ‘onoxa a meleni ena xauxamea kai cariba a meleni- He poked the melon and the melon broke
E ‘onoxa a meleni ena xauxamea kai cariba - He poked the melon and the melon broke
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E vayaga’a a xina a ma’au me sele’a xarote -  He’s using an axe to cut carrots 
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A tivote ‘ixo e ne tela ni teveli sa varau ‘u me xeto’ou gunu ti - The teapot is (standing) on the table is ready for us to drink tea
tivote - teapot
tela ni teveli - on top of the table
xeto’ou -  us 
gunu - drink
ti - tea
Sa varau - ready 
Laxo - let’s go (to go)
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O Maria sa xo’ia ona sigeleti - Maria cut her singlet
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Sa musuxa varua e tuga a xarote e ‘ixo e na tela ni teveli - He broke the carrote twice on the table
Sa musuxa rua e tuga a xarote era ma ‘ixo e na tela ni teveli - broke one carrot in two pieces on the table
Sa musuxa varua e tuga a xarote - He broke the (one) carrot twice
Sa musuxa rua e tuga a xarote - He broke the (one) carrot in two pieces
e ‘ixo e na tela ni teveli - the carrot is on the table
era ma ‘ixo e na tela ni teveli - plenty of carrots are on the table (ma gives you emphasis that it is on the table)
era ‘ixo e na tela ni teveli - plenty of carrots are on the table (can leave the ‘ma’ out)
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O xea ma moce ‘ixo sa kai atola mai ma’ana vasauri - She was sleeping and suddenly her eyes are opening up. (mai gives the sense of timing/movement from closed to open)
Ma’ana - her/his eye
Moce - sleep
Sa kai atola ma’ana - Her eyes opened
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Amu macala e ga’a ai xo’i gona se mucu - I wonder if those scissors are sharp or blunt.
Amu macala - I don’t know/what on earth (from prev)
ga’a - sharp
*Amu macala e mucu ai xo’i gona se ga’a
Amu macala e mucu se ga’a ai xo’i gona - I wonder if those scissors are blunt or sharp
Se - or
O gu’a apolo se moli? - Would you like/want an apple or an orange?
O gu’a a apolo se moli? - Would you like/want an apple or an orange (slow speech, emphases)
*O gu’a a apolo se a moli?- Can’t have an ‘a’ before ‘moli’
apolo - apple
Au gu’a apolo - I would like/want an apple
Gu’a - want
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O xea e ‘au’auva’a e dredre atola ni ‘axari levu bale’a ni biliga sobu vaxauxauwa -  It seems difficult to open the front door because she pushed down so hard.
*...bale’a biliga sobu vaxauxauwa - need to have the ‘ni’ after bale’a
‘axari levu - front door/main entrance (lit: big door)
‘axari - door
Bale’a - because
Biliga - push
Sobu - down
Biliga sobu - push down
O xea e ‘au’auva’a e dredre atola ni ‘axari levu bale’a ni biliga vaxauxauwa -  It seems difficult to open the front door because she pushed so hard.\
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E vayaga’a a xina a ligana me sele’a a wa. - He used his hand to cut the string.
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O Mela a vayaga’a a xina a banixacu me caxava kara e na ‘ixini sulu - Mela used a branch to make a hole in the piece of cloth.
Mela - name of person
caxava - to do
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O Mela a vayaga’a a xina e tuga banixacu me caxava kara e na ‘ixini sulu - Mela used a branch to make a hole in the piece of cloth.
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O Mela ma vaxasama ‘axina me sele’a a vacava a ixa.  Sa lao sele’a a uluna va‘a a buina - Mela thought about how to cut the fish.  She cut its head and its tail.
Uluna - its head
Buina - its tail
Va’a - together, same
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Sa tuga xalevu o xea e musuxa rawa a xarote na ligana - It’s amazing, he was able to break the carrot with his hand
cb50-b
Amu macala a cava e mana’i xa xoi e vayaga’a 
a xina ‘ixo ai ‘uxi me sele’a xina a wa
Amu macala a cava e mana’i xea ‘ixo o xea xoi 
e vayaga’a a xina ‘ixo ai ‘uxi me sele’a xina a wa
- What on earth is happening, that guy is using a hammer to cut the string