Question

Using what you learned about Tok Pisin, can you find the translations of these examples with the following English words phrases: bird’s feather, bird’s wing, cat’s fur, eyebrow, hair, weed? (3 points) gras antap long ai gras bilong pisin gras nogut gras bilong hed gras bilong pusi han bilong pisin

Answer 1

bird’s feather - gras bilong pisin

bird’s wing - han bilong pisin

cat’s fur - gras bilong pusi

eyebrow - gras antap long ai

hair - gras bilong hed

weed - gras nogut

Step-by-step explanation:

Tok Pisin is a creole language with a lexical foundation in English, following the phonetic of the words it is easier to relate the translation to english words, for example: gras bilong hed = grass belong head which means the layer that cover our hair that we commonly call hair, all of the words are connected in the same way to their translation.