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Manado Malay
Etymology
From North Moluccan Malay torang, from Malay kita orang.
Pronoun
torang
- we: plural, first-person pronoun
North Moluccan Malay
Etymology
From Malay kitorang. Compare to dorang.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtɔraŋ/
- Hyphenation: to‧rang
Pronoun
torang
- First person plural pronoun, both exclusive and inclusive: we, us, our
Torang mo pi di pante.- We will go to beach.
Depe mama kase torang makanan.- Her mother gave us food.
Torang pe ikang so masa.- Our fish is cooked.
See also
North Moluccan Malay personal pronouns
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singular
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plural
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| 1st person
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long
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kita,
saya
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torang
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| short
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ta
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tong
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| 2nd person
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long
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ngana
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ngoni
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| ngo
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| short
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nga
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| 3rd person
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long
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dia
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dorang
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| short
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de
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dong
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| Reflexive
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diri
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| Emphatic
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sandiri
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Notes:
The short forms are mostly dependant.
The second person pronouns are usually avoided for someone of higher status or older.
See each entry for more information.
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Papuan Malay
Pronunciation
Pronoun
torang
- Short form of kitorang (“we”).
2023, Wyclyff translators, Melayu Papua, Luke 23:18:Tapi dong smua batariak, “Bunu Dia, kas bebas Barabas untuk torang.”- But all of them shouted, “Kill Him, free Barabbas for us.”
2008 November 15, Papuan Malay corpus, recording 1a, line 282:[…] itu ana itu, de hormat torang- that is that kid, she respects us
References
- Kluge, Angela (2017) A grammar of Papuan Malay (Studies in Diversity Linguistics 11), Berlin: Language Science Press, →DOI, pages 294, 591