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Adjectival Verbs
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Tuvaluan
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pafuefa
adj./v. [N] fat, big
[北] かなり太った
See also: puta2, putaputa, fuefa.
paiē volume_up
adj./v. lazy
怠惰な
pakā volume_up
adj./v. thin, skinny
細い,痩せている
See also: pakapakā, mānifi1, hao3.
pakapakā
adj./v. [N] thin, skinny
[北] 痩せている,細い
See also: pakā, mānifi1, hao3.
pakeke
adj./v. hard, inflexible
硬い,固い
See also: makeke, make'keke.
pakipaki
adj./v. brilliant, sparkling, glittering
鮮やかな,鮮明な,輝いている
'kena pakipaki: brilliant white.
'kena pakipaki:鮮やかな白.
'paku1
n. 1. burn (as noun)
1. やけど
v. 2. be burnt
2. やけどする
'paku2
v. be burnt
焼きすぎる,焦がす
adj./v. burnt
焦げた
'pala
v. go bad, rot
腐る
adj./v. rotten
腐った
pālagi volume_up
adj./v. 1. foreign, European
1. 外国の,西洋の,欧米の
n. 2. foreign people (especially European)
2. 外国人,ヨーロッパ系白人
Used both as an adjective and as a noun. In a narrow sense, it may refer to European Caucasians and Western products or things, and in a broader sense, it may refer to foreigners and foreign things in general. It may have a so-called "gaijin" nuance.
狭義にヨーロッパ系白人や欧米の物を指す場合もあれば,広義に外国人,外国の物全般を指すこともある.いわゆる「ガイジン」というようなニュアンスをもつこともある.
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