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long_wanem
long wanem
Tok Pisin
Conjunction
- because
- 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Genesis 3:10 (translation here):
- Na man i bekim tok olsem, “Mi harim yu wokabaut long gaden na mi pret na mi hait. Long wanem, mi stap as nating.”
- 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Genesis 3:10 (translation here):
- Used other than as an idiom: see long, wanem.
Usage notes
Unlike in English, long wanem is not postpositive.
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