Full Word List
- a
-
interj. [emphasis, emotion or confirmation (i.e. ah, ha, eh, oh, ooh, aw)]
- akesi
-
n. reptile, amphibian
n. (old/removed) "non-cute" animal
- ala
-
adj. no, not, none, empty
n. nothing, negation, zero
v. do nothing, nullify, annihilate
interj. no!
- alasa
-
v. hunt (violently or nonviolently), forage, gather, harvest, search
- ale / ali
-
adj. all, every, complete, whole, abundant, countless, bountiful, plentiful
n. abundance, everything, life, universe
num. 100, infinity
- anpa
-
adj. bowing down, downward, humble, lowly, dependent
v. conquer, defeat
n. (old, non-pu) bottom, lower part, under, below, floor, beneath
- ante
-
adj. different, altered, changed, other
n. difference, change
v. change, alter, modify, differ
- anu
-
conj. or
- anu seme
-
part. or what? [casual yes/no prompt]
- apeja
-
v. curse, shame
n. (nonstandard, old) shame, guilt
adj. (nonstandard, old) shameful, guilty
- awen
-
adj. enduring, kept, protected, safe, waiting, staying, remaining, stationary, permanent, sedentary
pv. continue/keep on (doing something)
v. keep, retain, stay, remain, wait, preserve, protect
n. protection, endurance
- e
-
part. [before direct object(s)]
- en
-
conj. and [between multiple subjects]
- epiku
-
adj. epic, awesome
- esun
-
n. market, shop, fair, bazaar, business transaction, trade, sale, purchase
adj. trade/exchange-related, commercial, traded, exchanged
v. trade, exchange, buy, sell
- ijo
-
n. thing, object, stuff, anything, matter, phenomenon
adj. material, physical
v. do something, objectify
- ike
-
adj. bad, negative, wrong, unnecessary, irrelevant
n. evil, negativity
v. be bad, suck (colloquial), worsen
interj. oh no!, oh dear, woe, alas
- ilo
-
n. tool, machine, device
adj. useful
v. use
- insa
-
n. center, content, internal organ, stomach
prep. inside, between
adj. inner, internal, central, core
v. insert, put inside, send inside
- jaki
-
adj. dirty, disgusting, repulsive, obscene, sickly, toxic, unclean, unsanitary
n. dirt, waste, garbage, infection
v. make something dirty, pollute
interj. ew, yuck
- jan
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n. person, human, being, somebody
adj. personal
v. personify, anthropomorphize, humanize
- jan lawa
-
n. leader, ruler, chief, captain, principal, executive
- jan pona
-
n. friend, good person
- jasima
-
n. mirror, reflection, echo
adj. opposite, reversed
v. reverse, reflect, resound, echo
- jelo
-
adj. yellow, yellowish, (rare) light green
- jo
-
v. have, carry, contain, hold, own
n. possession (something you own), contents
adj. carried, contained, possessed, owned
- kala
-
n. fish, marine animal, sea creature
adj. aquatic, marine
- kalama
-
n. sound, noise
adj. loud, noisy, sound-making
v. produce a sound, recite, utter aloud
- kama
-
pv. come, become, arrive, happen, start to, manage to, succeed in
adj. arriving, coming, future, summoned
n. event, happening, chance, arrival, beginning
v. bring about, summon
- kama jo
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v. receive, get, take, obtain
- kama pona
-
greeting welcome
- kama sona
-
v. learn, study
- kasi
-
n. plant, vegetation, herb, leaf, tree, wood, fungi, coral
adj. botanical, herbal, vegetated
n. vegetate
- ken
-
pv. can, may, be able to, be allowed to
adj. possible
n. ability, possibility, permission, chance, luck
v. allow, enable, permit
- ken la,
-
adv. maybe (at start of sentence)
- kepeken
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v. use
prep. (do something) using, by means of
n. a use
- kijetesantakalu
-
n. (joke word) raccoon, skunk, weasel, otter, musteloid
- kili
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n. fruit, vegetable, nut, result, offspring, product
n. (old) mushroom
v. result, fruiten
- kin
-
adv. also, too, even, indeed [emphasizes the word(s) before]
interj. me too, indeed, really
- kipisi
-
v. cut, divide, split, sever
n. division, part, piece, portion
- kiwen
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n. hard object, metal, stone, solid, wood, bone, plastic
adj. hard, touch, metallic, solid, stone, rocky
- ko
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n. clay, dough, paste, powder, clot, clump
adj. semi-solid, squishy, powdery
v. stick, cling, squash, pulverize
- kokosila
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v. speak not in toki pona while in a toki pona group
- kon
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n. air, essence, spirit, breath, wind
adj. invisible, ephemeral, gaseous, abstract, intangible, breathing
adj. breathe, vaporize, sublimate, evaporate
- ku
-
n. the toki pona dictionary
adj. as told in the toki pona dictionary
v. interacting with the toki pona dictionary
- kule
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adj. colourful, pigmented, painted, of or related to the LGBTQ+ community
n. color
v. color, paint
- kulupu
-
n. group, community, company, nation, society, tribe
adj. communal, social, public, shared
- kute
-
n. ear, hearing
v. hear, listen, pay attention to, obey
- la
-
part. [adverb/if/when marker, between the context phrase and the main sentence]
- lanpan
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v. seize, steal, capture, get, grab, catch
- lape
-
n. sleep, rest
v. sleep, rest
adj. sleeping, restful
- laso
-
adj. blue, bluish, green, greenish
- lawa
-
n. head, mind
adj. main, primary, controlling, ruling
v. control, direct, guide, lead, own, plan, rule
- leko
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n. square, block, stair
- len
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n. cloth, clothing, fabric, textile, cover, layer of privacy
adj. clothed, made of cloth/fabric
v. clothe, provide a layer of privacy
- lete
-
adj. cold, cool, uncooked, raw
n. cold
v. cool, chill
- li
-
part. [between subject (except mi or sina) and its verb], [introduce a new verb for the same subject]
- lili
-
adj. little, small, short, few, a bit, young
n. smallness
v. reduce, shorten, shrink, lessen
- linja
-
n. long and flexible thing (eg. cord, hair, rope, thread, yarn)
- lipu
-
n. flat object, book, document, paper, card, record, website
adj. flat, used as lipu, lipu-like
- loje
-
adj. red, reddish
- lon
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prep. (located) in/at/on
n. truth, life, existence
adj. real, true, present, existing
v. exist, be awake
- lon seme
-
q. where is, what is
- luka
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n. arm, hand, tactile organ
num. five
- lukin
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v. look at, see, examine, observe, read, watch
pv. seek, look for, try to
- lupa
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n. door, hole, orifice, window
- ma
-
n. earth, land, outdoors, world, country, territory, soil
- mama
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n. parent, ancestor, creator, origin, caretaker
v. create, parent, take care of
- mani
-
n. money, cash, savings, wealth, large domesticated animal
adj. (unconventional) wealthy
- meli
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n. woman, wife, girlfriend
adj. feminine, female
- meso
-
adj. average, medium
- mi
-
n. I, me, we, us
adj. my, our
- mije
-
n. man, husband, boyfriend
adj. masculine, male
- misikeke
-
n. medication, medicine, cure
- moku
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n. food
adj. edible, of food
v. eat, drink, swallow, consume, ingest
- moli
-
n. death
adj. dead, dying, deadly, fatal
v. kill, die
- monsi
-
n. back, rear, butt, behind
adj. back, rear
- monsuta
-
n. fear, horror, monster
adj. scary
- mu
-
interj. [animal noise or communication]
- mun
-
n. moon, star, night sky object
adj. lunar, stellar
- musi
-
n. fun, entertainment, game, art, recreation
adj. artistic, entertaining, amusing, playful, recreational
v. amuse, entertain, play, have fun
- mute
-
adj. many, very, much, several, a lot, abundant, numerous, more
n. amount, quantity
- n
-
interj. um..., mm..., hmm..., [filler word]
- namako
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n. spice (liberal, eg, namako suwi walo = sugar)
adj. extra, additional
- nanpa
-
n. number
adj. -th (ordinal number), numeric
- nasa
-
adj. unusual, strange, foolish, crazy, drunk
- nasin
-
n. path, road, street, doctrine, way, custom
adj. street-, true to the way/custom
- nena
-
n. hill, mountain, button, bump, nose, protuberance
adj. hilly, mountainous, bumpy
- ni
-
n. this, that
adj. that, this
- nimi
-
n. word, name
- noka
-
n. foot, leg, organ of locomotion, bottom, lower part
prep. under
- o
-
part. [vocative (calling to someone)], [imperative (replaces li)]
interj. hey! (calling for attention)
- oko
-
n. eye, vision
- olin
-
n. love, compassion, affection, respect
adj. loved, favorite, respected
v. love, have compassion for, respect, show affection to
- ona
-
n. he, she, it, they
adj. his, her, their, its
- open
-
v. begin, start, open, turn on
n. start, beginning
adj. initial, starting
- pakala
-
n. damage, mistake
adj. broken, damaged, harmed, messed up, wrong
v. break, make mistakes
part. [generic curse]
- pali
-
v. do, work on, build, make, prepare
n. work, labor, activity, project
adj. working, active, functional
- palisa
-
n. long solid object, branch, rod, stick
adj. long
- pan
-
n. grain, bread, barley, corn, oat, rice, wheat, pasta
- pana
-
v. give, send, emit, provide, put, release
n. transfer, exchange
adj. sent, released
- pi
-
part. of [regroups two or more modifiers]
- pilin
-
n. heart, feeling, touch, sense
adj. feeling, touch-based
v. touch, think, feel
- pimeja
-
adj. black, dark, unlit
n. darkness, shadow
- pini
-
adj. final, completed, ended, finished, past
n. ending, finish
v. end, finish, close, turn off
- pipi
-
n. bug, insect, spider
- poka
-
n. hip, side, neighbor, vicinity
adj. neighboring, nearby, at one's side
- poki
-
n. container, bag, box, bowl, cup, cupboard, drawer, vessel
- pona
-
adj. good, positive, useful, friendly, peaceful, simple
n. good, simplicity
v. improve, fix
interj. great!, good!, thanks!, ok!, cool!, yay!
response <verb> pona!
- pu
-
n. the official toki pona book
adj. as told in the official toki pona book
v. interacting with the official toki pona book
- sama
-
adj. same, similar, sibiling, equal
n. similarity, sibling, peer, fellow
prep. as, like, seem
- seli
-
n. heat, warmth, chemical reaction, heat source
adj. warm, hot, cooked
v. heat, warm, cook
- selo
-
n. outside, surface, skin, shell, boundary, bark, peel
adj. outer
- seme
-
part. what, which, [question word in place of unknown]
- sewi
-
n. area above, top, highest part, sky, god
adj. divine, sacred, supernatural, superior, high, religious, formal
prep. above, over
- sijelo
-
n. body, physical state, torso
adj. physical, of sijelo
- sike
-
n. round or circular thing, ball, circle, cycle, wheel
adj. round, circular, spherical, cyclical, of one year
v. make a circle around, surround
- sin
-
adj. new, fresh, another, more
n. novelty, addition
v. add, update, renew, renovate, freshen
- sina
-
n. you
adj. your
- sinpin
-
n. front, chest, face, wall
adj. foremost
- sitelen
-
n. image, picture, representation, symbol, mark, writing
adj. symbolic, written, recorded
v. write, draw, record
- soko
-
n. mushroom, fungus
- sona
-
n. knowledge, information, wisdom, intelligence, understanding
adj. known
v. know, be skilled in, be wise about, have information on
pv. know how to
- soweli
-
n. animal, beast, land mammal
- suli
-
adj. big, heavy, large, long, tall, important, adult
n. size, greatness
v. enlarge, grow, lengthen
- suno
-
n. sun, light, brightness, radiance, light source
adj. solar, bright, radiant
v. light, shine, glow
- supa
-
n. horizontal surface (e.g furniture, table, chair, pillow, floor)
- suwi
-
adj. sweet, fragrant, cute, innocent
- tan
-
prep. by, from, because of
n. cause, reason, origin
adj. original
- taso
-
particle (beginning of sentence): but, however
adj. only, just
- tawa
-
prep. to, going to, toward, in order to, for, from the perspective of
adj. moving, mobile
n. movement, transportation
v. move, displace, go to, walk, travel, leave
- mi tawa
-
farewell goodbye, i am going (to do something)
- telo
-
n. water, fluid, liquid, juice, sauce
adj. wet, fluid, liquid
v. water, clean
- tenpo
-
n. time, duration, moment, occasion, period, situation
adj. temporal
- tenpo kama
-
n. future
adj. later, future
- tenpo ni
-
n. present
adj. now, present
- tenpo pini
-
n. past
adj. earlier, past
- tenpo sike
-
n. year
- toki
-
v. communicate, say, speak, say, talk, use language, think
n. speech, conversation, language
adj. verbal, conversational
greeting hello!
- tomo
-
n. home, building, structure, indoor space, room
adj. indoor, urban, domestic, household
- tonsi
-
adj. non-binary, gender non-confirming, transgender
- tu
-
num. two
n. duo, pair
adj. divided
v. double, divide
- unpa
-
n. sex, sexuality
adj. sexual, erotic
v. have sex (with)
- uta
-
n. mouth, lips, jaw
adj. oral
- utala
-
n. fight, attack, challenge, battle, conflict, disharmony, competition, war, argument
adj. aggressive, warlike, violent
v. fight, hit, attack, battle, challenge, compete against, struggle against
- walo
-
adj. white, whitish, light-coloured, pale
- wan
-
n. unit, element, particle, part, piece
adj. unique, united (with li)
num. one
v. to unite
- waso
-
n. bird, flying creature, winged animal
- wawa
-
adj. strong, powerful, confident, sure, energetic, intense, fierce
n. strength, power, energy
v. strengthen, energize, empower
- weka
-
n. absence, remoteness
adj. absent, away, missing, ignored, remote
v. remove, get rid of
- wile
-
n. want, need, desire
adj. desired, needed, required, necessary
v. must, need, require, should, want, wish
pv. must do, need to, require something, should do, want to, wish to
Resources
I'm just putting this here for future reference:
- linja pona: http://musilili.net/linja-pona/ (heiroglyph font)
- Heiroglyph lesson from lipu pu: http://tokipona.net/tp/janPije/hieroglyphs.php