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16 Kiribati words

kanga
- Bingham how.
- Sabatier how? in what way?, be, do.
ra
- Bingham how.
- Sabatier ai tamaroa ra!: how beautiful!
uarea
- Bingham how much more so.
- Sabatier kind of condit. interrog..., how would it be if...
irai
- Bingham how many? ( ira and ai) in counting hardware, furniture, chests, barrels, timber, coconut-leaf stems, fingers, teeth, large fish, as sharks and ikari.
- Sabatier interr. irai? how many of...?
ira
- Bingham how many? always followed by a numerical suffix ai, ua, un, man, na, kai, kora, or by a certain noun.
- Sabatier how many? (what quantity, how much?);
iraman
- Bingham how many? in counting persons or animals.
- Sabatier iraman? how many... (living beings).
irana
- Bingham how to do a thing? to do how? (interrogative).
- Sabatier interr. form. how to do? how to treat?
iraua
- Bingham how many? in counting things in general.
- Sabatier how many? (inanimated things in general).
irakai
- Bingham how many? in counting trees, fish-hooks, and sections of land.
- Sabatier ira-kai? how many... (trees, land, etc.)?
kaureke
- Sabatier how lucky! what a God-send!
ai
- Sabatier ai tamaroa ra!: how beautiful!
irakora
- Bingham how many? in counting baskets.
iranga
- Bingham how many? in counting fathoms.
iraung
- Bingham how many? in counting pandanus fruit.
tera
- Sabatier tera arona? what is it like? how is it made?
uara?
- Sabatier ko ua ra? how are you? e uara tamam? how is your father?