1. place
- bikples mainland
- ples balus airport (also epot)
- Ol balus i save pundaun long dispela ples balus.
Airplanes land at this airport. - Nem bilong ples balus long Honiara em Hendasen.
The name of the airport in Honiara is Henderson. - Sakup i laik go long ples balus.
Sakup wants to go to the airport.
- Ol balus i save pundaun long dispela ples balus.
- ples bilong kamapim kiau ovaries
- ples bung 1. a gathering or meeting place; 2. market
- Yumi mas go long ples bung.
We must go to the meeting place. - Yumi ken salim dispela pis long ples bung.
We can sell this fish at the market.
- Yumi mas go long ples bung.
- ples daun a valley
- Wanpela raunwara i stap long ples daun.
There is a lake in the valley.
- Wanpela raunwara i stap long ples daun.
- ples drai a desert, a dry place (of low rainfall)
- Ol manmeri i no save wokim gaden long ples drai.
People do not make gardens in dry places.
- Ol manmeri i no save wokim gaden long ples drai.
- ples hait a hidden, secret or shady place
- Mitupela i gat wanpela ples hait bilong mitupela yet.
The two of us have a secret place of our very own.
- Mitupela i gat wanpela ples hait bilong mitupela yet.
- ples kik soccer field (also sokafild)
- Mipela i yusim ples kik bilong skul.
We use the school’s soccer field.
- Mipela i yusim ples kik bilong skul.
- ples klia a clearing, an open place
- mekim ples klia to reveal
- I no gat wanpela ples klia long ples bilong mipela.
There is no clearing in our village. - Ol polis i mekim klia ol rong bilong man long kot.
The police revealed the man’s crimes in court.
- ples kol a cold place
- Maunt Hagen em i wanpela ples kol.
Mt Hagen is a cold place.
- Maunt Hagen em i wanpela ples kol.
- ples kunai a grassland
- Ol sutman i wok long kukim ples kunai long painim mumut.
The hunters burned the grasslands to hunt bandicoots.
- Ol sutman i wok long kukim ples kunai long painim mumut.
- ples malumalu 1. muddy place, swamp; 2. fontanelle, baby’s soft spot
- Kar i go pas long ples malumalu.
The car is bogged in the muddy place.
- Kar i go pas long ples malumalu.
- ples mangro mangrove swamp
- Planti kuka i stap long ples mangro.
There are many crabs in the mangrove swamp.
- Planti kuka i stap long ples mangro.
- ples nating an unoccupied village or a place that is not being used
- Em i no gaden, em i ples nating.
It’s not a garden it’s empty land not being used.
- Em i no gaden, em i ples nating.
- ples nogut an unsuitable, rugged place; a dangerous place; a place of ill repute
- Long nait Pot Mosbi i wanpela ples nogut.
At night Port Moresby is not a safe place. - Yumi no ken slip long dispela ples nogut.
We cannot sleep in this dangerous place.
- Long nait Pot Mosbi i wanpela ples nogut.
- ples tais a swampland, a marsh
- Ol meri i go long painim papai long ples tais.
The women have gone to find mushrooms in the swamp.
- Ol meri i go long painim papai long ples tais.
- ples tambu sacred site, forbidden place
- Ol meri i no ken go insait long ples tambu.
Women cannot enter a sacred site.
- Ol meri i no ken go insait long ples tambu.
- ples tudak the dark
2. village
- as ples home town, home village, place of origin
- as ples bilong gavman seat of government
- as ples bilong mi my home town/village
- Meri i go bek pinis long as ples bilong em.
The woman has gone back to her home village.
- ples kanaka a village, native village (also as ples)
- ples nating, ples klia empty space, clearing, place where something can be easily seen
- ples nogut bad place, unhealthy or dangerous place
- tok ples mother tongue, local language, vernacular
- Sampela pikinini i save rit na rait long tok ples.
Some children can read and write in their vernacular.
- Sampela pikinini i save rit na rait long tok ples.
- Yumi go lukim mama long ples.
Let’s go see mother in the village. - Dogare i go long ples.
Dogare went to a village. - Mi kam bilong lukim ples tasol.
I’m just coming to have a look at the village.
3. region
- Laos i stap insait long saut is Asia ples.
Laos is in the south-east Asian region.