1. | Their middle fingers are short. | Ekadu addi kaṇ eoḷōpān peier. / Ekadu addi-eoḷapier. | addi-eoḷap |
2. | Why doesn't he hurry up and use his middle finger so we can be on our way? | En addi-eoḷapeḷọk bwe jen etal. | addi-eoḷap |
3. | Why don't you try using your middle finger | Kwōn ṃōk addi-eoḷape. | addi-eoḷap |
4. | There are wild animals in the middle of the island. | Elōñ kidu awiia buḷōn ānin | buḷōn |
5. | As he spoke he threw the tiller, steering the boat right toward the middle of the pass. P503 | Ej kōnono wōt ak ejoto ḷọk jila eo bwe en bwābwe wa eo ñan to eo; wa eo ekar kaiok ḷọk wōt lukoḷpān to eo im etal. | bwābwe |
6. | And in the middle of the night, the two of them put up the sail again and we started going on our way to the east. P1180 | Im ḷak eoḷapān ḷọk boñon eo, erro bar jerak e wūjḷā eo im kōmmān jino bar bweradik ḷọk ilo iiaḷ eo ammān tak ḷọk | bweradik |
7. | It's in the middle of the road. | Epād ioḷōpān iaḷ eo. | eoḷōpa- |
8. | They went toward middle of the wato. They went toward the middle of the island. | Remoot eoọjḷọk. | eọọj |
9. | They went toward middle of the wato. They went toward the middle of the island. | Remoot eoọjḷọk. | eọọj |
10. | Find the middle and mark it. | Pukot eoḷap im kakōḷḷiki. | ioḷap |
11. | The man in the middle among the three men is the captain. | Ḷeeṇ ioḷap iaan ḷōṃaran jilu ej kapen eo eṇ. | ioḷap |
12. | Put it in the middle. | Kaeoḷapḷape. | ioḷap |
13. | Find the middle of the cake and cut it. | Kaeolape keek ṇe im mwijiti. | ioḷap |
14. | It is so wide that if you were right in the middle of it, you wouldn’t be able to see any islands. P1320 | Joñan an aitok ijin eḷaññe jej pād i eoḷapān, ejej āne en jej loe. | ioḷap |
15. | The pigs are in the middle of the island. | Piik ko rōpād iooj. | iooj |
16. | When they were done nodding while talking to each other, the Old Man pointed east toward the middle of the bushes and the three of them including the Bosun headed over that way. P1265 | Ke ekar ṃōj aerro ṃōṃajidjid ñan doon, ḷōḷḷap eo ejitōñ ḷọk buḷōn mar ko jetakiermān innem erjel Bojin eo jibadek ḷọk | jetak |
17. | Father was still in the middle of talking when the Captain interrupted him, “We will use the engine first and then when the wind picks up we will use the sail,” the Captain said. P423 | Ejab jeṃḷọk an Jema kōnono bwe Kapen eo ekkōnono, “Jenaaj leinjin tak ḷọk im ñe eṃṃan kōto, jelewūjḷā,” Kapen eo eba. | le |
18. | Where is the middle of this piece of wood? | Ewi lukwōn aḷaḷ e? | lukwō- |
19. | The boat was becalmed in the middle of the ocean. | Eluri wa eo ṇai lọmeto. | lur |
20. | Listening to what he said I looked over to the west and saw that the sun was starting to set in the middle of the ocean. P500 | Iroñjake an kōnono tok im ḷak rōre to ḷọk ñan kapilōñ, ilo an aḷ jino jako ḷọk i buḷōn lọjet. | roñjake |
21. | You guys should wait and see until next week so it won’t strand you in the middle of the ocean.” P122 | Koṃeañ en kōttar ṃokta im lale ñan wiik uweo tok bwe en jab tabuuk koṃ ṇa i lọmeto.” | tabu |