mi open toki pona.

So I ask in english, would “sijelo ike tenpo ale” be a working translation for “lifelong illness”?

  • novemberEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Remember that each modifier word modifies the entire phrase that came before it. “sijelo ike” is a sijelo that is ike. “sijelo ike tenpo” is a sijelo ike that is tenpo. “sijelo ike tenpo ale” is a sijelo ike tenpo that is ale. You’d want to use the particle “pi” to regroup the modifiers: sijelo ike pi tenpo ale.