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''toki pona enhanced (aka TPE)'' is a dialect of [[toki pona]] that employs advances in the science of Lojban applied to the syntax of toki pona.


==Basic sentence structure==
''toki pona enhanced (aka TPE)'' is a dialect of [[toki pona]] that formalizes the syntax and the lexicon of toki pona employing advances in the science of Lojban.
Main TPE words are verbs like
:"soweli" = to be an animal (e.g. a dog or a cat)
:"moku" = to eat (something)
{{mupli|soweli li moku<br>''A mouse eats.''}}
The verb before the particle "li" becomes a noun. The verb after "li" remains a verb.


TPE also have words that act only as nouns. Those are pronouns:
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:"mi" = I
:"sina" = you
:"ona" = he, she, they, it
:"ni" = this
Thus they don't require "li" to separate them from the forthcoming verb:
{{mupli|mi moku<br>''I eat.''}}
 
==Topic and comment==
A more common sentence have two parts: topic and comment separated with the particle "la":
{{mupli|soweli li moku la ona kepeken e ijo<br>''When a mouse eats it uses a fork.'' (literally)<br>''A mouse eats using a fork (actual meaning)}}
:"kepeken" = to use (something)
Topic is before "la", comment is after "la".
 
"la" is used to express prepositions. In this case the preposition "with" is rephrased in TPE with the verb "kepeken".
 
"la" can also be used to express conditions like "if" and "when". This sentence can also be translated as "If a mouse eats it uses a fork."
 
==Anaphora==
{{mupli|soweli li moku la ona kepeken e ijo<br>''When a mouse eats it uses a fork.'' (literally)<br>''A mouse eats using a fork (actual meaning)}}
Anaphoric particle "ona" refers to the previous noun known from context. In this isolated example it definitely refers to the noun "soweli" since there are no other nouns before "ona".
==Two nouns of a verb==
Verb can have more than one noun:
{{mupli|mi moku e ijo<br>''I eat something.''<br>''I eat food.''}}
:"moku" = to eat (something)
The second noun is put after the verb and separated with the particle "e".
==Compound verbs==
:"toki" = to talk, say (something)
:"pona" = to be good, to repair (something)
:"toki pona" = to talk in a good way
{{mupli|toki pona li moku<br>''A good talker eats.''}}
 
Stringing verbs together makes the second, third etc. verbs modify the first verb. Thus we get adjectives that unlike English is put afterwards: literally in TPE we say "talker, the good, eats."
 
Pronouns can also modify verbs:
:"soweli" = to be an animal (e.g. cat)
:"soweli mi" = to be my animal
{{mupli|ni li soweli mi<br>This is my cat.}}
{{mupli|ona li soweli sina<br>It is your cat.}}
==Negation==
{{mupli|mi moku ala<br>''I don't eat.''}}
:"ala" = to be false, not
To negate a verb you put "ala" after it thus getting a compound verb.
 
==Questions==
The question verb "seme" is used for asking content questions:
{{mupli|seme li moku<br>''Who eats?''}}
 
Sentences with questions usually have a raising intonation.
{{mupli|sina moku ala moku<br>''Do you eat?''}}
{{mupli|moku<br>''I do.''}}
{{mupli|moku ala<br>''I don't.''}}
To ask ''yes/no'' questions repeat the verb twice with the word "ala" inside. To answer ''yes'' repeat that verb. To answer ''no'' repeat the verb with ''ala'' after it.
 
==Separating sentences==
Sentences are separated by lowering the intonation  till the end of the sentence and putting an at least short pause after them.
 
Question sentences are separated by raising the intonation till the end of the sentence and putting an at least short pause after them.
 
In writing sentence are separated by a dot placed at the end of them.
 
==Linking sentences together==
{{mupli|mi moku. en la mi tawa}}
:"tawa" = to go, to move (to some place)
:"en" = and
If you want to show that two sentences express the same idea use "en la" to connect them.
{{mupli|mi moku. sin la kon li seli}}
:"seli"  = to be hot, to burn (something)
:"sin"  = to be new
If you change the subject of what you are talking about start the next sentence with "sin la" to show it belongs to a new subject. In books "sin la" is also used to separate paragraphs.
==Differences from toki pona==
In toki pona language "moku" can mean both "to eat" and "food". in TPE this is avoided. You say
{{mupli|mi moku e ijo. ona li pona<br>''I eat something. It (i.e. food) is good.''}}
 
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Latest revision as of 07:16, 24 October 2017

toki pona enhanced (aka TPE) is a dialect of toki pona that formalizes the syntax and the lexicon of toki pona employing advances in the science of Lojban.

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