wok, wokim

English: ‘work’.

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Noun forms

  1. Action: work, job, task, occupation
    mi no gat wok I don’t have a job, I have nothing to do
    man bilong wok a good worker, an industrious person
    yu mekim gutpela wok you are doing a good job

  1. Action: habitual activity, what someone does all the time
    ol meri kros: lusim, wok bilong ol these women arguing: leave them, that’s what they do

  1. Form of perceiving: worry, concern, problem
    em i wok bilong ol that’s their problem

  1. Sexual activity: sexual relations
    tupela go insait na wok kirap they went inside and had sex

Noun combination forms

  1. Action: types of work or activity
    wok bisnis making money activity
    wok bus patrol work, fieldwork
    wok gaden subsistence agriculture
    wok lukaut guardianship
    wok mak piecework
    wok mani paid work
    wok nait night shift
    wok sip work on a ship

  1. Church: wok sori repentance

Intransitive verb forms

  1. Action: to work
    mama i go wok long gaden mother went to work in the garden

Transitive verb forms

  1. Action: to make something, to build something
    wokim haus to build a house
    wokim kago to load or unload cargo
    wokim kanu to make a canoe
    wokim saksak to make sago

  1. Action: to do
    yu wokim wanem? what are you doing?
    em i wokim rong he did a bad thing (or broke the law)

  1. Sexual activity: to have sexual relations
    tupela marit wokim nau (then) the husband and wife had sex

Verb phrase forms

  1. wok long to do continuously, do habitually, be still doing something ® stap
    em i wok long painim kaikai he is busy looking for food, he is still looking for food
    dok i wok long kaikaiim ol man the dog is always biting people

  1. wok long to try and do something
    mi wok long harim I’m trying to hear it (or I’m listening)
    mi wok long lukim I’m trying to see it (or I’m still looking at it)

  1. Sexual activity: wokim nogut to have sex with (the sense is of shameful, but not illegal, sex) ® kuapim
    tupela i wokim nogut long ai bilong olgeta man they had sex where everyone could see them

  1. Sexual activity: wokim nogut sexual abuse
    em i wokim nogut long pikinini bilong em yet he had incestuous sex with his own daughter

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