Category: G

garden, food plot

• kukim gaden to burn the dead leaves and waste
• Sapoti i wok long gaden.
  Sapoti is working in the garden.
• Meri i go klinim gaden.
  The woman went to weed the garden.

pie

• Ol manmeri bilong Ostrelia ol i save kaikai planti pai.
  Australians eat lots of pies.

a Java almond nut or tree.

See also: Galip in Papua New Guinea

gun (also masket, raifol).

• gan pisin a shotgun
• masin gan machine gun
• faktori gan a factory-made gun

1. a hardwood tree

2. long slit-gong drum

• Man i save paitim garamut.
  A man is beating the drum.

1. to have, to own, to possess

• Meri i gat bel.
  The woman is pregnant.
• Mi gat ka.
  I own a car.
• Mi gat bel hevi.
  I have a complaint.
• Mipela i gat rait long stap.
  We have a right to stay.

2. there is, there are (see no gat there is/are no, nogat no!)

• I gat wanpela meri long haus.
  There is one woman in the house.

3. a guard, to guard (also wasman)

• Gat i slip na em i no wok.
  The guard is asleep and he’s not working.

governor

• gavana bilong Westen Hailans Provins the governor of Western Highlands Province
• Gavana Jeneral Governor General

government

• graun bilong gavman government property
• Gavman i mas senisim sampela lo.
  The government must change some of the laws.
• Em i wanpela sekreteri bilong Gavman.
  She is a Government secretary.
• Em i wok long gavman.
  He works for the government.
• Em i pasin bilong gavman.
  That is a custom of the government. (That is the government way of doing things.)
• Gavman em i giaman tumas.
  The government is very hypocritical. / The government is lying.

See also: Government of Papua New Guinea

girl (see meri)

• gelpren girlfriend
• Ol gels i kam.
  The girls are coming.

again, once more

• kam bek gen to rejoin
• Mekim gen.
  Do it again.
• Neks de ol i bung gen.
  They met again the next day.
• Ol pikinini i go pilai gen.
  The children went to play again.
• Sori tumas, traim gen!
  Very sorry, try again!