time
25 Kiribati words
- tai
- Bingham time, season, harvest.
- Sabatier time, times, period, season, time (music).
- Sabatier e a bo iraua n am tai?: what time is it by your watch?
- bongata
- Bingham prolonged in time.
- kamana
- Bingham to prolong in time.
- ningaira
- Bingham when? at what time?
- ngkekei
- Sabatier at that time, then (past).
- matare
- Bingham prolonged in time, remaining long.
- kabongata
- Bingham to cause one to remain a long time.
- kiriaria
- Bingham far off, or distant in future time.
- aitau
- Sabatier timely, expedient, nearly time, etc.
- bakanako
- Sabatier e a bakanako taina: a long time ago.
- koroa
- Bingham nearly full, nearly completed as time.
- ningai
- Bingham when? at what time? (preceded by n).
- maroro
- Sabatier maroro ma... to pass the time with...
- bo
- Sabatier e bo am tai: it is your time (your turn).
- materonga
- Sabatier matoronga to have resided for a long time.
- matawe
- Sabatier e matawe te tai: there is still plenty of time.
- bobo
- Bingham a season or time just before fruit befins to ripen.
- ngkanne
- Bingham at the present time, at the time and place spoken of.
- wia
- Sabatier kawia te amarake: to arrive just in time for a meal.
- moantai
- Sabatier (1) te moan tai: the first time, the first opportunity.
- ngkoa
- Sabatier formerly, in the past, in ancient times, a long time ago.
- aua
- Sabatier iraua te aua?: how many hours? te aua iraua?: what time? (what hour?).
- taina
- Sabatier tataina: to fix a time, to regulate, to keep to the time prescribed.
- wia raoi
- Sabatier to turn out well, profitable, favourable, well met, just in time, to be lucky.
- iro
- Sabatier e iro te ai: the fire has caughte iroiro tangin te bu: the bu is sounding for a long time.