pinis
See also: piņīs
Cebuano
editPronunciation
edit- Hyphenation: pi‧nis
Noun
editpinis
- any of several bleeding-hearts found in the Philippines:
Latin
editNoun
editpīnīs
Tok Pisin
editEtymology
editParticle
editpinis
- Marks perfect or completive aspect
- (rare) Marks passive voice construction
- 1995, John Verhaar, Toward a reference grammar of Tok Pisin: an experiment in corpus linguistics[1], →ISBN, page 433:
- Mekim olsem pinis, orait tupela i planim taro na banana, na kumu, painap, kon, tomato, na kaukau tu.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
See also
editTok Pisin tense and aspect markers:
- pinis (completive aspect)
- bin (past tense)
- stap (progressive aspect or durative aspect)
- save (habitual aspect)
- bai/baimbai (future tense)