Editing Kot Wawa (section)

== Rule #4 – Immediate objects ==
(V|N) N.

A noun said immediately after a verb or noun is the ''object ''of its action. When an object is specified this way, it is an ''immediate object''. The preceding verb or noun is said to be ''loaded''.

{| class="wikitable"
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|  | lùki.
|  | “it looks at it; it sees it.”
|  | < tok ''lukin'', ult. < en ''look''
|-
| | bìpi.
| | “it’s a bug (insect, spider or other invertebrate) (to it).”
| style="border-top:none;" | < tok ''pipi''
|-
| | pípi.
| | “A bug.”
| style="border-top:none;" | < ꜛ''bìpi''
|-
| | lùki pípi.
| | “It looks at a bug.”
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|-
| | gàl.
| | “It’s a sea creature (fish, mollusc, marine mammal, turtle) (to it).”
| style="border-top:none;" | < tok ''kala''
|-
| | kál.
| | “A sea creature.”
| style="border-top:none;" | < ꜛ''gàl''
|-
| | mòk kál.
| | “It eats a a sea creature.” (e.g. “It’s eating fish.”)
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|}

One of the possible senses of “bìpi” is “There’s a bug.” In the same way, “gàl” can mean “There’s a fish.” All verbs can be used this way to establish the presence of something that does it.

A noun followed by a noun refers to something that does the first noun’s verb sense to the second noun.

{| class="wikitable"
|-
|  | wàs.
|  | “It’s a bird (to it).”
|  | < tok ''waso'' < fr ''oiseau''
|-
| | lúki wás.
| | “One that looks at a bird.” e.g. “Birdwatcher.”
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|-
|}

=== Question ===
How could I say?:

{| class="wikitable"
|-
|  | “It eats a bug.”
|  | 
|  | 
|-
| | “I saw a bug.”
| | 
| style="border-top:none;" | Tense and subject can be inferred from context.
|}

=== Corollary – Object chains ===
(V|N) N N.

When there are more than one noun objects in a row, they are each the object of the word immediately before it.

{| class="wikitable"
|-
|  | lúki tók pón.
|  | “One that watches someone saying good things.”
|  | 
|-
| | lúki tók mók pón.
| | “One that watches one that describes (says) an eater of good things.”
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|}

=== Question ===
How could I say?:

{| class="wikitable"
|-
|  | “One that describes things that eat bugs.”
|  | 
|  | ''dòk'' = “describe”, ''mòk'' = “eat”, ''pípi'' = “bug”
|}

=== Corollary – Prepositions ===
V V N.

Another thing that can be done with immediate objects is supply them to adverbs, turning them into prepositions.

{| class="wikitable"
|-
|  | dàu.
|  | “It goes to it.”
|  | 
|-
| | bàna.
| | “It gives it.”
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|-
| | bàna dàu ján.
| | “It gives it to a person.”
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|}

In this example, the action of giving goes to the person, which follows the rule that adverbs are things that verbs do.

=== Question ===
How could I say?:

{| class="wikitable"
|-
|  | “It says it to a bird.”
|  | 
|  | 
|-
| | “It talks to a bird.”
| | 
| style="border-top:none;" | Verbs without objects can be viewed as either intransitive or acting on an inferred object.
|}