Category: G

(also koapim)

1. to have sexual intercourse

2. to climb

• Yusim kondom taim yu laik goapim.
  Use a condom when you want to have sex.

guest

• ges haus guest house

to leave

• Planti pipel i save kam na goaut long stoa.
  Many people come in and go out of the store.

gate, entry ticket

• baim get pay the entry fee
• Em i baim get fi bilong mi.
  She bought my ticket to go inside.

God

• tok bitas long God to blaspheme

1. goal

• Maria i kikim gol long ol.
  Maria scored a goal against them.

2. gold

• Long taim bipo ol i save painim planti gol long Bulolo.
  In the past a lot of gold was found in Bulolo.
• Planti man i save wok long painim gol.
  Many men mine for gold.

3. gall

See also: Copper and Gold in Papua New Guinea

ordinary people (term used in contrast to elites, variously describing rural village-dwellers, urban settlers, unemployed, operators in the informal sector, the ‘man/ woman in the street,’ etc.).

ground, earth, soil, property, mud, clay, land

• olgeta manmeri bilong graun all people on earth
• Ol meri Motu i save wokim sospen graun.
  Motuan women know how to make clay pots.
• olgeta samting i kamap nating long graun nature, environment
• Pikinini bilong mi i no save long bus na graun bilong mi i stap we.
  My child doesn’t know where our forest and land are.
• Tingim hap graun bilong yu long ples.
  Think of your land in the village.

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