pinis
See also: piņīs
Cebuano
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: pi‧nis
Noun
pinis
- any of several bleeding-hearts found in the Philippines:
Latin
Noun
(deprecated template usage) pīnīs
Tok Pisin
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] English finish.
Particle
pinis
- Marks perfect tense
- (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
Tok Pisin tense and aspect markers:
- pinis (completive aspect)
- bin (past tense)
- stap (progressive aspect or durative aspect)
- save (habitual aspect)
- bai/baimbai (future tense)
Verb
pinis intrans., transitive pinisim
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