Category: T

stick tobacco, tobacco, cigarette

• Bubu man bilong mi i save smok tabak.
  My grandfather smokes stick tobacco.

typhoid.

tyre

• Taia bilong kar i slek.
  The car tyre is flat.
• spea taia spare tyre

1. time

• Wanem taim nau?
  What is the time?

2. season

• taim bilong ren the wet season
• taim bilong san the dry season

3. when

• Taim brata bilong mi i kam long haus, yumi ken i go.
  When my brother comes home, we can leave.

4. while

• Taim mi wokabaut i go long maket, mi lukim yu.
  When I was going to the market, I saw you.

5. then, at that time

• Siapan i pait wantaim ol waitman long dispela taim.
  The Japanese were at war with the Westerners at that time.
• taim bilong karim expected date of delivering a baby

6. repetition

• Hamas taim bai mi tokim yu long baim dinau bilong yu?
  How many times do I have to tell you to pay your debts?

FYI

The time throughout PNG is 10 hours ahead of UTC (GMT). When it’s noon in PNG it will be noon in Sydney, 9am in Jakarta, 2am in London, 9pm the previous day in New York and 6pm the previous day in Los Angeles. There is no daylight saving (summer time) in PNG.

You will inevitably encounter ‘Melanesian time’ at some point, the habit throughout Melanesia (and all the South Pacific) of putting a low premium on punctuality.

the future

• Mi wari long laip bilong pikinini bilong yumi long taim bihain.
  I am concerned about our children’s future.

the past

• Em i bilong taim bipo.
  It/He/She belongs to the past.

1. bad weather

• Bikpela win i kamapim taim nogut.
  The strong wind brought in bad weather.

2. troubled times

• Em i taim nogut na mipela i no ken raun long nait.
  These are troubled times, so we cannot go out at night.

to time someone or something

• Em belo na bos i taimim mi.
  It is lunch time and the boss is timing me.
• Yumi mas taimim wokabaut bilong yumi.
  We must time our walk.

times (in mathematics), multiplied by

• Tri taims tu em sikis.
  Three times two is six.

timetable

• Tisa i raitim taimtebol long blakbot.
  The teacher wrote the timetable on the blackboard.