er-eiEnglishthat; those; there; closeTok Pisinem iaThe combination á_erei often means 'there', while the combination erei_má(i) is used to say that someone is approaching or is close to arriving.Nabung a togor mam iau ái tuang mák up iau, mái sár á iau káp iau te kosoi. Kán togor erei a bokoh til main i kak hol.Yesterday my brother was angry with me and struck me, however me I did not respond/payback (fight back). That anger of his is absent from here in my thinking.Pákánbung kán tu láklák tangrai sál ái Kapul, a sodar suri kesi táit a rekep iamuni aun lamas ki ák tántán suri mákái ngo dánih á erei. Pákánbung ngo a soklatán, ki ák sodar suri kesi wán marang a pur mák ubi lul, ki ák pur mák mat palpal.While Kapul was walking along the road, he was surprised about a thing that made a noise up in the coconut tree so he looked up to see what was there. When he lifted up his head, then he was surprised about a coconut fruit that fell and hit his head, then he fell and fainted.Nabung giur láklák tangrai sál ái Aupa má giurá mákái kesi kálámul a láklák tilamudi, ki iak parai ngo, “Erei mái Ioanes.” Mái Aupa ák parai ngo kápte ngo ái, a lite kálámul sang.Yesterday Aupa and I were walking along the road and we saw a person who was walking from upcoast, then I said that, "That now is John (here comes John)." And/but Aupa said that it was not him, it was a different person.mináierárkonerngorermerei2
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