Beginner Texts in Toki Pona

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A graveyard with many stone headstones, some of them crumbling.

A graveyard with many stone headstones, some of them crumbling. Image: Burial Ground at Essil (geograph 7182807) | by Peter Wood. | CC-BY-SA-2.0

ken la sijelo mi li kama lon anpa ma.

jan li pana e sijelo mi tawa poki.

jan li pana e poki tawa lupa ma.

jan li pana e ma tawa lupa ma.

kiwen li sitelen e nimi mi.

Maybe my body will come to be at under the earth.

Someone will give my body to a container.

Someone will give the container to an earthy hole.

Someone will give earth to the earthy hole.

A stone will depict my name.

ken la sijelo mi li kama lon anpa ma

jan li pana e sijelo mi tawa poki

jan li pana e poki tawa lupa ma

jan li pana e ma tawa lupa ma

kiwen li sitelen e nimi mi

ken la sijelo mi li kama lon anpa ma.

jan li pana e sijelo mi tawa poki.

jan li pana e poki tawa lupa ma.

jan li pana e ma tawa lupa ma.

kiwen li sitelen e nimi mi.

toki pona English sitelen pona
ken la sijelo mi li kama lon anpa ma. Maybe my body will come to be at under the earth. ken la sijelo mi li kama lon anpa ma ken la sijelo mi li kama lon anpa ma.
jan li pana e sijelo mi tawa poki. Someone will give my body to a container. jan li pana e sijelo mi tawa poki jan li pana e sijelo mi tawa poki.
jan li pana e poki tawa lupa ma. Someone will give the container to an earthy hole. jan li pana e poki tawa lupa ma jan li pana e poki tawa lupa ma.
jan li pana e ma tawa lupa ma. Someone will give earth to the earthy hole. jan li pana e ma tawa lupa ma jan li pana e ma tawa lupa ma.
kiwen li sitelen e nimi mi. A stone will depict my name. kiwen li sitelen e nimi mi kiwen li sitelen e nimi mi.

ken la sijelo mi li kama lon anpa ma.

ken la sijelo mi li kama lon anpa ma

ken la sijelo mi li kama lon anpa ma.

en

Maybe my body will come to be at under the earth.

sitelen Lasina

ken la sijelo mi li kama lon anpa ma.

jan li pana e sijelo mi tawa poki.

jan li pana e sijelo mi tawa poki

jan li pana e sijelo mi tawa poki.

en

Someone will give my body to a container.

sitelen Lasina

jan li pana e sijelo mi tawa poki.

jan li pana e poki tawa lupa ma.

jan li pana e poki tawa lupa ma

jan li pana e poki tawa lupa ma.

en

Someone will give the container to an earthy hole.

sitelen Lasina

jan li pana e poki tawa lupa ma.

jan li pana e ma tawa lupa ma.

jan li pana e ma tawa lupa ma

jan li pana e ma tawa lupa ma.

en

Someone will give earth to the earthy hole.

sitelen Lasina

jan li pana e ma tawa lupa ma.

kiwen li sitelen e nimi mi.

kiwen li sitelen e nimi mi

kiwen li sitelen e nimi mi.

en

A stone will depict my name.

sitelen Lasina

kiwen li sitelen e nimi mi.