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what

13 Kiribati words

• aera
  • Bingham what... doing?
• tera
  • Bingham what?, literally a what?
  • Sabatier what? (things).
• ra
  • Bingham what? (an interrogative pronoun following the noun).
  • Sabatier suf. of interrogation: what? which?
• kari rana
  • Sabatier what rank of birth:
• terana
  • Bingham what (na is euphonic).
• kanga
  • Sabatier how? in what way?, be, do.
• kaureke
  • Sabatier how lucky! what a God-send!
• bi
  • Sabatier ae bi! e bi: what a stench!
• kubatera
  • Sabatier what? exclamation, cry of surprise.
• uara
  • Bingham of or in what state or condition (interrog) que).
• tai
  • Sabatier e a bo iraua n am tai?: what time is it by your watch?
• akea
  • Sabatier akea! akea ngai! akea ngaira!: oh! dear me! what an affair!
• are
  • Sabatier who, whom, that, which, what, whoever, whosoever, whomsoever, whichever (used for what is distant in time and space) past and future.