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Beginner Kai / unit 1 / lesson 2

Pronouns, Names, and Identity

Learn the first sentence pattern in Common Kai: name a subject, use e, then say what the subject is or what quality it has.

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vocabulary

  • e
  • mi
  • ti
  • si
  • nai
  • eli
  • elin
  • elen
  • ela
  • aeli
  • nain
  • teeli
  • niva
  • miri
  • haia

grammar

  • subject + e + noun
  • subject + e + quality
  • names as subjects
  • gender-neutral si
  • Common Kai identity sentences

practice types

  • recognition
  • substitution
  • translation
  • production
  • mini-dialogue

learner boundary

Common Kai first

This site teaches ordinary Common Kai before sacred, symbolic, or Lumin work. Beginners should keep Sacred Kai as later specialist material until the plain sentence is stable.

  • Find the practical Common Kai meaning.
  • Say who or what is acting, needing, asking, or being described.
  • Open sacred, poetic, or Lumin notes only after the plain reading is clear.

spaced review

grammar return practice

4 patterns due

Start here before the new lesson work. These earlier patterns are deliberately returning in a later lesson.

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Sounds, Spelling, and First Words

Before new material, explain the older pattern aloud and write one fresh Kai sentence with it.

  • first-syllable stress
  • no hidden English spelling rules
  • phonemic spelling
  • pure vowels

beginner vocabulary load

cumulative vocabulary limit

within limit
new terms
12
cumulative
24
limit
24
remaining
0

The Beginner course keeps a running vocabulary cap so learners can practice the sentence engine without uncontrolled word growth.

new in this lesson

  • si
  • nai
  • eli
  • elin
  • elen
  • ela
  • aeli
  • nain
  • teeli
  • niva
  • miri
  • haia

practice sheet

write your answers

  1. Translate: Mi e eli.
  2. Translate: Ti e niva.
  3. Translate: Si e aeli.
  4. Translate: Nai e nain.
  5. Translate: Maria e elen.
  6. Choose the better Kai word for "person": eli or elen.
  7. Choose the better Kai word for "people": elin or ela.
  8. Fill the blank: Mi ___ miri.
  9. Fill the blank: Ti e ___. = You are safe.
  10. Rewrite with a name: Si e teeli. Use Aleso.
  11. Write in Kai: I am a living being.
  12. Write in Kai: You are a person.
  13. Write in Kai: We here are a community.
  14. Write in Kai: Maria is a friend.
  15. Write one question you still have about e, names, or pronouns.