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Beginner Kai / unit 3 / lesson 7

Time Words, Memory, and Future Intention

Learn the first Kai time system: now, before, later, current action, future intention, remembered past, completed events, and simple plans.

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vocabulary

  • el
  • an
  • or
  • um
  • rine
  • rinum
  • rinan
  • rino
  • rinve
  • yari
  • yano
  • ya
  • sai
  • sha
  • mi
  • ti
  • si
  • nai
  • tio
  • yare
  • name
  • namo
  • hune
  • huno
  • kame
  • some
  • venlune
  • mino
  • noa
  • li
  • te

grammar

  • time words after the clause
  • el for current process
  • an for future intention
  • um for remembered past
  • or for completed manifest event
  • yari time questions
  • simple plan statements

practice types

  • recognition
  • aspect choice
  • time-word placement
  • question formation
  • translation
  • plan dialogue
  • guided production

spaced review

grammar return practice

15 patterns due

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

sixth later lesson / from unit 1 / lesson 1

Sounds, Spelling, and First Words

Use the pattern in a short dialogue, paragraph, translation, or project answer without looking back.

  • first-syllable stress
  • no hidden English spelling rules
  • phonemic spelling
  • pure vowels
third later lesson / from unit 2 / lesson 4

Questions, Short Answers, and Repair

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

  • content question words
  • final ya for yes-no questions
  • question-word placement
  • repair phrases
  • short answers
next lesson / from unit 3 / lesson 6

Present Action, Objects, and Everyday Routines

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

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

beginner vocabulary load

cumulative vocabulary limit

within limit
new terms
7
cumulative
84
limit
90
remaining
6

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

new in this lesson

  • an
  • or
  • um
  • rinum
  • rinan
  • rino
  • mino

practice sheet

write your answers

  1. Translate: Mi el yare rine.
  2. Translate: Ti el name namo rine.
  3. Translate: Mi an yare rinan.
  4. Translate: Nai an venlune rinan.
  5. Translate: Mi um yare rinum.
  6. Translate: Ti um name namo rinum.
  7. Translate: Mi or name namo rinum.
  8. Translate: Mino e yano?
  9. Translate: Nai an yare li noa rinan.
  10. Translate: Nai an yare yari?
  11. Fill the blank: Mi ___ hune huno rine. = I am drinking water now.
  12. Fill the blank: Ti ___ yare rinan. = You will go later.
  13. Fill the blank: Mi ___ yare rinum. = I remember going before.
  14. Fill the blank: Mi or yare ___. = I went before.
  15. Fill the blank: Nai an venlune ___. = We will discuss later.
  16. Choose the better beginner sentence: Mi an el yare. or Mi an yare.
  17. Choose the sentence focused on memory: Mi um yare rinum. or Mi or yare rinum.
  18. Choose the sentence focused on completed event: Mi um name namo rinum. or Mi or name namo rinum.
  19. Write in Kai: I am eating food now.
  20. Write in Kai: You will drink water later.
  21. Write in Kai: We will discuss later.
  22. Write in Kai: I remember going home before.
  23. Write in Kai: They went before.
  24. Ask in Kai: When will we go?
  25. Ask in Kai: Are you eating food now?
  26. Write a four-line plan dialogue using mino, an, rinan, and yari.