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Beginner Kai / unit 3 / lesson 6

Present Action, Objects, and Everyday Routines

Learn how Common Kai marks current action with el, places objects after predicates, and writes simple everyday routine sentences.

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vocabulary

  • el
  • e
  • sha
  • ya
  • anvai
  • yano
  • yava
  • rine
  • rinve
  • mi
  • ti
  • si
  • nai
  • name
  • namo
  • hune
  • huno
  • yare
  • noa
  • li
  • sile
  • lune
  • nelo
  • mire
  • lumo
  • vae
  • teno
  • ore
  • alo
  • some
  • kame
  • venlune

grammar

  • el for current process
  • predicate after el
  • direct objects after predicates
  • relation phrases after objects
  • negated present action
  • routine action with rinve

practice types

  • recognition
  • predicate-object order
  • substitution
  • negation
  • question formation
  • translation
  • routine writing

spaced review

grammar return practice

11 patterns due

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

third later lesson / from unit 2 / lesson 3

Wanting, Needing, and Having

Mix this pattern with the current lesson's main form so retrieval happens in a new context.

  • li for wanting and direction
  • nive for need
  • possession as relation
  • safety vocabulary
  • te for with/having
next lesson / from unit 2 / lesson 5

Place, Direction, and Relation Phrases

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

  • direction and wanting with li
  • location with en
  • relation phrase order
  • route and means with al
  • source and belonging with na
  • with and possession with te

beginner vocabulary load

cumulative vocabulary limit

within limit
new terms
10
cumulative
77
limit
80
remaining
3

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

new in this lesson

  • el
  • rinve
  • name
  • hune
  • sile
  • nelo
  • mire
  • some
  • kame
  • venlune

practice sheet

write your answers

  1. Translate: Mi el yare.
  2. Translate: Ti el name namo.
  3. Translate: Si el hune huno.
  4. Translate: Nai el venlune.
  5. Translate: Mi el vae teno li ti.
  6. Translate: Ti el lune nelo te nai.
  7. Translate: Mi sha el yare.
  8. Translate: Ti sha el name namo.
  9. Translate: Mi el kame rinve.
  10. Translate: Ti el some rinve ya?
  11. Fill the blank: Mi ___ name namo. = I am eating food.
  12. Fill the blank: Ti el hune ___. = You are drinking water.
  13. Fill the blank: Mi sha ___ yare. = I am not going.
  14. Fill the blank: Mi el vae teno ___ ti. = I am giving the object to you.
  15. Fill the blank: Mi el kame ___. = I work regularly.
  16. Choose the better sentence for "I am eating food": Mi e name namo. or Mi el name namo.
  17. Choose the better object order: Mi el namo name. or Mi el name namo.
  18. Choose the better sentence for "I am giving the object to you": Mi el vae teno li ti. or Mi el vae li ti teno.
  19. Write in Kai: I am going.
  20. Write in Kai: You are drinking water.
  21. Write in Kai: We here are discussing now.
  22. Write in Kai: I am not eating food.
  23. Write in Kai: Are you eating?
  24. Write in Kai: What are you drinking?
  25. Write in Kai: I work regularly.
  26. Write three Kai sentences about a daily routine. Use at least one object and one rinve sentence.