Lesson Eleven. Foods and eating; transitives and intransitives; the causative prefix.

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface VII
3. Contents IX
4. Map of the Marshall Islands X
5. Introduction XI
6. Lesson One. Pronouns; Going Places; Where? 1
7. Lesson Two. Someone is going; when? yes-no questions; negative; future; conditional 10
8. Lesson Three. Do you have a/some...?; possessive; Where is your/my...?; Here/there it is; I don't know. 15
9. Lesson Four. More comings and goings--hither, thither, and yon: directionals; future negative; the construct particle; the locative particle 23
10. Lesson Five. To and from; going with a purpose; wearing clothes and other things; arrivals and departures 33
11. Lesson Six. Names; ages; numbers; telling time; days of the week, months of the year; some demonstratives 43
12. Lesson Seven. Time expressions--from the year before the year before last to the year after next 55
13. Lesson Eight. Demonstratives: 'Be quite specific about where it is, whether it's visible or not, plural or not, and if plural, whether human or not.'; some kin terms. 67
14. Lesson Nine. Past tense; sentence, personal, and locative demonstratives 77
15. Lesson Ten. -n: mild commands and more futures; kar and some contrary to fact questions and answers; bey 'so that' 90
16. Lesson Eleven. Foods and eating; transitives and intransitives; the causative prefix. 103
17. Lesson Twelve. Health and sicknesses; different people's medicines; some superlative idioms; similarities and differences; and being careful. 118
18. Lesson Thirteen. More health problems; by (one's) self; the lost has been found; general vs. specific statements. 129
19. Lesson Fourteen. Occupations; adjective-like words; and singular-plural forms of such dimensional words; the reflexive katey. 141
20. Lesson Fifteen. Additional greetings; requests and polite refusals; the coconut. 152
21. Lesson Sixteen. 'Do you know how?'; 'I used to.' ; 'Teach me.'; nowadays and in the olden times. 162
22. Lesson Seventeen. Siblings and cousins; after graduation; more on foods; at the store. 170
23. Lesson Eighteen. 'You and who else?' 'By myself alone'; 'Why?'; 'Because.'. 178
24. Lesson Nineteen. More store scenes; double consonant intransitives; kab and hawelep...yem; colors. 188
25. Lesson Twenty. More causatives; distributives; compound verbs. 199
26. Lesson Twenty-one. Flags and more on Congress; distributives of color words; 'and then when'. 209
27. Lesson Twenty-two. Relatives. 218
28. Lesson Twenty-three. Yewen vs. rahan; this particular one; becoming; look alike. 230
29. Lesson Twenty-four. More past tense, contrary-to-fact, and conditional practice; more on the coconut; several idiomatic expressions. 238
30. Lesson Twenty-five. Beverages; more distributives; arrowroot and divination. 248
31. Lesson Twenty-six. Working and getting accustomed; more negatives with ja-. 256
32. Lesson Twenty-seven. Animals ; more on directionals. 264
33. Lesson Twenty-eight. Drinking and eating; washing; common questions; personal names; Aah; more Slot I directionals. 274
34. Lesson Twenty-nine. Fishing; review of directionals; some miscellaneous patterns. 290
35. Lesson Thirty. More fishing; adjective-like words with and without ka-; directional locatives with tiw; possessive suffixes on units of time; miscellaneous patterns. 302
36. Glossary 315
37. Finder List 367
38. Index 435