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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>==Toki Pona==<br />
[[File:pi - sitelen pona in Sonja Lang's handwriting.svg|right|thumb|''pi'' in ''sitelen pona'']]<br />
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===Etymology===<br />
{{etymon|tok|:der|tpi:bilong<id:of>|tree=1}}<br />
From {{der|tok|tpi|bilong||of, belonging to}}, from {{der|tok|en|-}} ''[[belong]]''. {{dbt|tok|lon}}.<br />
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===Pronunciation===<br />
{{tok-IPA}}<br />
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===Particle===<br />
{{head|tok|particle}}<br />
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# {{non-gloss|introduces a [[postmodifying]] multi-word phrase}}<br />
#: {{ux|tok|tomo telo nasa li sama ala tomo '''pi''' telo nasa.|A weird washroom (weird liquid room) is not the same as a pub (weird'''-'''liquid room).}}<br />
#* {{quote-journal|tok|date=2025-02-28|author=jan Ke Tami|title=kala li ken ala ken waso?|journal=lipu tenpo|url=https://liputenpo.org/lipu/nanpa-kala/|volume=|issue=(nanpa) tenpo|page=4|text=pini la, kulupu li ken toki e nasin ona '''pi''' nimi ni.|t=After all, the group can discuss its approach to this word.}}<br />
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===Usage notes===<br />
* Without ''pi'', each content word modifies the preceding phrase individually in succession. ''pi'' regroups the following words to modify the preceding phrase as a unit. It is roughly equivalent to [[hyphenate|hyphenating]] a [[phrasal]] [[adjective]] in English.<br />
* Using ''pi'' followed by one word is proscribed. As there is nothing to regroup, the meaning is unchanged from the same phrase without ''pi''.<br />
* If ''pi'' is used twice in one phrase, there is no consensus on whether the second ''pi'' phrase modifies the first ''pi'' phrase ([[nested]]), or both modify the head phrase ([[flat]]).<br />
* ''pi'' is often glossed as “[[of]]”, in the sense of introducing a postmodifying noun phrase. Using ''pi'' for its other senses is proscribed. Note that phrases without ''pi'' can be translated using ''of'', as in {{m|tok|toki pona}}, “the language of good”.<br />
* While ''pi'' can occur before possessive phrases, it does not itself mark the possessive. Compare ''tomo {{l|tok|mi}}'', “my house”, and ''tomo pi jan Epawan'', “Abraham's house”. Both modifiers are possessive; the ''pi'' merely groups the two words in the proper name.<br />
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===References===<br />
* {{R:Toki Pona: The Language of Good|page=131|entry=true}}</div>wikt>Jlwoodwa