ngaa (num) thousand.
ngae (adj) enough, satisfied.
ngai (pron) me, I.
ngaia (pron) him/her/it; he, she, it.
ngaina (n) daylight.
ngkai (adv) now.
ngkam (excl) I don't know.
ngkamii (pron) you (pl.).
ngkana (conj) when, if.
ngkanne (conj) then.
ngke (conj) when.
ngke e ingaabong (adv) this morning.
ngke e tairiki (adv) last night.
ngkoa (adv) long ago.
ngkoananoa (adv) yesterday.
ngkoe (pron) you (sing).
ngongo (v) itching.
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O
oo (n) wall, enclosure, pen.
oi (n) torch light made by rolling dry coconut leaves.
oi ni kibee (n) torch for torch-fishing (on reef).
oi n tatae (n) torch for torch-fishing (for flying fish).
oki (n) return.
oki (v) come back.
okira (v) return to; come back to.
Okitoba (n) October.
okiu (n) my return.
okoro (adj) different.
okoro (n) difference; aside; apart.
okoro (v) aside; apart.
on (adj) full up.
on (n) turtle.
oon (n) wall of.
oonaoraki (n) hospital.
onauti (n) flying fish.
onean (n) replacement of.
onobwi (num) sixty.
onoman (num) six (animate).
Onotoa (p n) island in the Gilberts between Tabiteuea and Tamana.
onoua (num) six (general).
ongo (v) hear.
ongoraa (v) listen to.
ora (n) low tide.
oreaki (v pass) hit.
orean (n) beat of.
oreano (n) ball bat (kind of game where one group bats the ball and the other group tries to catch).
oota (adj) bright, clear.
oota (n) light.
oota (v) see clearly, understand.
otabaniniaki (v pass) surrounded.
oti (v) rise; show; appear.
otintaai (n) sunrise.
otooto (n) composing, composition.
R
re ri ro ru
rab'a (n) thanks.
rab'a (n) car or motor bike tire.
raababa (adj) wide, broad.
rabakau (adj) clever, skillful.
rabakauu (n) my skill, my knowledge.
rab'ata (n) body.
rab'ata (v) to hold to one's body.
rab'atau (n) my body.
rabono (n) eel.
raeuaia (v) tear it; break it (as a glass).
rai (adj) withered.
rai (n) layers of canoe planks.
rairaki (v) turn.
rairan (n) translation of.
raiti (n) rice.
rake (adj) lucky.
rake (adv) up, upward.
raama (n) outrigger side of a canoe.
rama (n) canoe float (outrigger).
ram'a (n) forehead.
ram'a (n) gable of house.
raami (n) playing card game.
ran (n) water.
ranna (n) its water.
ranniben (n) coconut milk.
rannimoimoto (n) green coconut water.
raanti (n) launch.
ranga (v) capsize, overturn.
rangi (adv) very.
raoi (adj) calm (as calm sea); fine, peaceful.
raoi (adv) exactly, properly.
raoi (n) peace.
raoiroi (adj) good, nice.
raonna (v) be friends with.
raonna (v) to accompany.
raoraona (v) be friends with.
raou (n) my friend.
raraa (adj) rusty.
raraa (n) bleeding; blood;.
raranga (n) weaving.
raranga (v) weave.
rarangaaki (v pass) woven.
rarangaan (n) the weaving of.
rarikin (adv) beside, near.
rarikin (n) side of.
rarikin (n) pauper.
raroa (adv) far, distant.
raroaia (n) their distances.
raroara (interrog) how far?
rauara (n) cigarette paper made from pandanus leaf.
rauarana (n) its cigarette paper (rauara).
rauia (n) their thatch (house).
rauna (n) its thatch.
raurau (n) plate; record (for record player).
raurau ni wae (n) top part of the foot.
raure (v) separate.
raure nako (adj) separate, apart.
rawa (n) channel, passage to a lagoon.
rawa (v) refuse.
rawa (v) dislike.
rawaawata (adj) heavy.
rawaawata (adj) sad.
rebwerebwe (n) motorbike.
rebwerebwe (n) successive crashing around sounding like thunder.
reirei (n) school.
reirei (v) study.
reirei ibukini mm'akuri (n) technical institute.
reirei n neeti (n) school of nursing.
reirei ni kaimoa (n) marine training school.
reirei n tia reirei (n) teachers' college.
reireiti (v) join together (as short pieces of string).
reke (v pp) gotten.
rereaki (v pass) mixed (drink/food).
reerio (n) radio.
reta (n) letter.
ri (v) pass.
riai (adj) proper, better;.
riai (aux) must.
ribana (v) cultivate.
riki (adv) else; more.
riki (v) happen, become;.
riki (v) start to grow.
rikitemanna (n) only child.
rimoa (adj) past.
rimoa (v) go before or go ahead of.
rimwi (adj) late.
rimwi (v) come late, come after.
rin (v) get in, enter.
rinan (n) row.
rine (v) excel, be superior.
rineaki (v pass) chosen, elected.
rinerine (n) election.
riniia (n) their entrance, their admittance.
ririki (n) year.
Ritemba (n) December.
roo (n) anchor.
roo (n) rope.
roo (n) dark, darkness.
roaroa (n) rodfishing.
roobu (n) rope.
roka (n) a lock.
roka (n) a game played with playing cards.
roki (n) blind (as window blind), curtain.
rooki (n) curtains.
roko (v) come, arrive, be present.
rokoia (n) their arrival, their presence.
rokona (n) his/her presence or arrival.
rongorongo (n) news.
rongorongoni (n) news of.
roroo (adj) black.
rooro (n) ages.
roro (n) age, generation.
rooroo (v) be at anchor.
roroa (n) neck.
rooroko (v) visit at regular times.
rootongitong (adj) very dark.
ruu (n) room.
ruabwi (num) ninety.
ruaiua (num) nine.
ruoia (n) Kiribati dancing.
rurungaa (n) rumbling.
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T
te ti to tu
taaba (n) a long and broad knife.
taba (n) cheek.
Taabati (n) Sunday.
tabe (adj) busy.
tabeai (adj) some (sticks, etc.).
tabeka (v) lift.
tabekia (v) lift it.
tabeman (n) somebody.
taberan (n) top of (tree, plants and mast).
tabetabe (adj) busy.
tabetai (adv) sometimes.
tabeua (n) some (things).
taabia (n) earring.
Tabiteuea (n) the biggest island in the Gilberts.
taabo (n) places.
tabo (n) place; point or end.
taboia (n) their ends or points.
tabon (n) end of; point of.
tabona (n) its end, point.
tabonibai (n) finger.
tabu (adj) holy; forbidden; sacred.
taeka (n) word.
taekan (n) word of; news of.
taekana (n) words or news about him//her/it.
taekin (v) speak about (pl. of
taekina).
taekinna (v) speak about it.
taetae (n) language.
taetae (v) speak.
taetae ni kawai (n) old language; conversation.
taetae ni kawai (v) to speak, have a conversation.
taai (n) times.
tai (n) time; clock or watch.
tai (neg) don't.
taian (pron) those (things, people, etc.).
taiani (pron) those (things, people, etc.).
taiaoka (aux) please.
taibora (n) table.
tain (n) time of; season.
taai nako (adv) all the time, everytime.
tairiki (n) evening.
tairikin (n) evening of.
taka (v) thirsty.
takaakaro (n) a game.
takaakaro (v) to play.
takaakaroia (n) their play.
takataka (n) copra.
taakinaki (v pass) spread out as mat.
taku (v) say.
tama (n) father.
tam'akan (n) climbing of.
Tamana (n) the second island from the south of the Gilberts.
tam'arakea (v) climb up, ascend.
tamau (n) my father.
taamnei (n) picture.
taamnein (n) picture of.
taan (n) -ers, those who do.
tanai (n) axe (small).
taan akawa (n) fishermen.
taani (n) those who, -ers (pl. of tia).
taani kateitei (n) construction workers.
tanimaeaontaai (n) afternoon.
tanimainiku (n) eastern side;.
taninga (n) ear.
taninga (v) wait.
taningaia (n) their ears.
taningaia (v) wait for him/her/it.
tanoni (n) soil of; sand of; earth of.
tanrake (n) ocean side or eastern side or shore.
tanraken (n) ocean side of, eastern side of.
taan reirei (n) teachers.
tanrion (n) lagoon side of; western side of.
taan ununiki (n) agricultural workers, farmers.
taanga (n) couples.
taanga (n) army.
tangi (v) cry.
tangim (n) your cry.
tanginako (n) shower of rain.
tanginako (v) move away (as sound).
tanginako (v) ignored, embarrassed.
tangira (v) want; like; love.
tangirai (v) want me; like me; love me.
tangiria (v) like him/her/it; love him/her/it.
tangiriko (v) like you; love you.
tao (aux) about; perhaps.
taoo (n) saw (tool).
taoo (v) saw (wood, etc.).
taobongiia (adv) every other day, leaving off days.
taokita (n) doctor.
taonna (v) press down; stand or sit on.
taonna (v) postpone.
taorooro (n) taro.
taotaona (v) pressing down.
taotaona (v) to be patient.
taara (n) towel.
taaraa (n) dollar.
taraia (vt) look at it.
taraiia (vt) look at them.
taraan (n) the look of something/ someone.
Tarawa (n) capital island of the Gilberts.
taari (n) sea; seawater.
taariaki (adj) salted.
tarim (n) your sibling of same sex.
taarin (n) salt of.
taarin (n) sea of.
tarin (n) his/her/its sibling of same sex.
tariu (n) my sibling of same sex.
taromauri (v) pray, worship.
tatae (n) torch fishing for flying fish.
tataneiai (v) used to, accustom.
tataninga (vi) wait; keep waiting.
tataningaa (vt) wait for (someone).
taatang (v) cry at regular time; that can cry; make sound or rings.
taatangira (v) fond of.
tau (adj) enough; fit.
tauu (v) hold, plural verb form of
taua.
taua (v) hold.
tauaki (v pass) held.
tauakin (n) hold of.
tau manin taninga (n) singing with hand covering the ear.
tauni mate (n) funnel.
tau on (n) turtle chase.
taura (n) lamp; something that gives out light at night.
tauraoi (adj) ready.
tautaeka (n) government.
tautaeka (v) rule, govern.
tawanou (n) noon.
te (art) the, a.
teaina (n) one stick.
Teaoraereke (n) village on Tarawa.
Tebetemba (n) September.
te boo (n) same.
tebotebo (n) bath.
tebotebo (v) bathe.
tebubua (num) one hundred.
tebwi (num) ten followed by unit.
tebwi ma itiua (num) seventeen.
tebwi ma nimaua (num) fifteen.
tebwi ma aua (num) fourteen.
tebwina (num) ten.
teei (n) baby, child, kid.
teei (v) keep standing.
tei (v) stand.
teinnaiine (n) girl.
teirake (v) to stand up.
teitei (v) standing.
tekateka (v) sit.
teke (v) pricked; beaten, (as in a competition).
tekena (v) to beat (as in a competition).
temanna (num) one
(person/animal/small fish/insect).
tena (v) bite.
tenaiko (v) bite you.
tenamoko (n) smoke, e.g. from tobacco.
tenibwi ma nimaua (num) thirty five.
teniman (num) three (persons/animals, etc.).
teniua (num) three (things).
tengaun (num) ten (people, animals, etc.).
teraa (interrog) what?
teuaae (pron) this man who (followed by name or description).
teuaaei (pron) this man.
teuana (num) one (article).
teuaane (pron) that man.
teuaare (pron) that man who (followed by name or description).
teuaarei (pron) that man there.
teutana (adj) some.
tewaana (num) one (canoe/ship/boat).
ti (adv) only.
ti (pron) we.
tii (v) shoot out, gush out.
tia (aux) have/has/had; finished.
ti a boo (interj) good-bye.
tiaabora (n) shovel.
tiaki (neg) not.
tianaki (n) something like food, etc. prepared for a journey.
tianti (n) cent (money).
Tianuare (n) January.
tiaoka (n) chalk (blackboard pencil).
tia reirei (n) teacher.
tib'a (aux) just.
tib'aake (n) lighter (= spark).
tiib'aati (n) teapot.
tibeeranna (v) spell it.
tibu (n) grandpa or grandma.
tibuu (n) my grandparent.
tibu (v) swell.
tiibuta (n) mini dress for women, like blouse.
tibu to mm'aane (n) grandfather.
tientemiita (n) centimeter.
tikareti (n) cigarette.
tikiraoi (adj) beautiful, pretty, nice looking.
tiku (v) stay, stay away.
tikuni (v) stay away of.
tikuru (n) screw.
tina (n) mother.
tinaia (n) their mother.
tinan (n) mother of.
tinaniku (n) outside.
tinau (n) my mother.
tiireeree (n) Gilbertese kind of dancing using short skirts.
tiriwae (n) panty.
titaokin (n) stockings.
titeboo (n) same (tiiteboo).
titiraki (n) a question.
titiraki (v) to ask, to question.
titirakinna (v) to ask him/her, to question him/her.
titirakinai (v) to ask me, to question me.
titooa (n) a store.
toa (adj) even.
toa (n) a giant.
toa (n) church feast.
toabuaka (adj) odd, not even.
toabuaka (v) disabled.
toaraoi (adj) equal in number.
toobu (n) soap.
toobu ni irewi (n) toothpaste.
toka (v) ride.
tokatoka (v) riding on as in surfing.
toki (v) stop, halt, pause.
tomai (v) join.
tonotonon to bai (n) soft part of palm of hand.
Toromon (n) Solomon.
totooa (adj) very big in size.
toua (v) hit with a foot; step on.
tuae (n) pandanus dried pulp.
tuai (adv) not yet.
tuangai (v) tell me.
Tuun (n) June.
Tuurai (n) July.
tuta ni kawai (n) junction.
Tutia (n) Mass.
Tuvalu (n) group of islands formerly named Ellice Islands.
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