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Story Kai / unit 2 / lesson 2

Story Unit 02: Past, Remembered Past, Before, After, While, and Since

Learn to control story time in Common Kai with ordinary past, remembered past, and clear before, after, while, and since clauses.

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vocabulary

  • a
  • ma
  • sai
  • sha
  • ya
  • yano
  • yava
  • yari
  • mi
  • ti
  • si
  • nai
  • tio
  • sio
  • e
  • el
  • an
  • or
  • um
  • li
  • na
  • en
  • al
  • te
  • va
  • ri
  • liri
  • rine
  • rinum
  • rinan
  • rina
  • rinor
  • rinel
  • rinsha
  • rinna
  • rinve
  • rin
  • noa
  • sannoa
  • kamnoa
  • vennoa
  • yaro
  • vao
  • lumo
  • silu
  • heni
  • mali
  • risi
  • elen
  • ela
  • aeli
  • teeli
  • milo
  • luno
  • lune
  • lunu
  • reme
  • remi
  • remu
  • lunrem
  • rinrem
  • korlao
  • komtao
  • yare
  • mire
  • sile
  • name
  • hune
  • vae
  • ore
  • kale
  • hile
  • hole
  • kame
  • some
  • niva
  • nive
  • miri
  • yelo

grammar

  • ordinary past with or
  • remembered past with um
  • broad past time with rinum
  • future story time with rinan
  • time-gate clauses with rinum va rinor va rinel va rinna va
  • contrast between sequence adverbs and temporal clauses
  • comma after fronted time gates
  • avoiding ra for ordinary story past

practice types

  • temporal clause recognition
  • past versus remembered past
  • before-after-while-since drills
  • sentence combining
  • story timeline writing
  • translation
  • answer key

learner boundary

Common Kai first

Story and Kaiven pages may invite mythic or inner readings. Read the scene as Common Kai first: who is present, what happens, what changes, and what grammar carries the action.

  • State the plain scene before symbolic meaning.
  • Mark particles and clause order before register notes.
  • Treat inner reading as commentary, not as the basic translation.

spaced review

grammar return practice

9 patterns due

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

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Story Unit 01: Narration, Sequence, Scene-Setting, and Simple Memory

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

  • Common Kai narration before poetic compression
  • completed events with or
  • first and afterward sequence with rina and rinor
  • remembered events with um
  • repeated names for clarity
  • scene-setting with en na li al te
  • simple memory frame
  • story clause order
  • time anchoring with rinum rine rinan

practice sheet

write your answers

A. Reading and Recognition

Translate into English.

  1. Maria or mire lumo rinum.
  2. Maria um mire lumo rinum.
  3. Rinum, Aleso en yaro.
  4. Rinor, Maria or yare li vao.
  5. Rinum va Maria or yare li vao, Aleso el hune huno.
  6. Rinor va Maria or mire lumo, Maria or yare li vao.
  7. Rinel va Maria el kale luno, Aleso or hile Maria.
  8. Rinna va Maria or mire lumo, Maria e miri.
  9. Rinel va nai el yare al yaro, lumo en vao.
  10. Rinor va mi um yare li noa, mi or kale luno.

B. Choose the Time Form

Fill the blank with or, um, rinum va, rinor va, rinel va, or rinna va.

  1. Maria ___ yare li yaro. = Maria went to the road.
  2. Maria ___ yare li yaro. = Maria remembered going to the road.
  3. ___ Maria or yare li vao, Aleso el hune huno. = Before Maria went to the door, Aleso was drinking water.
  4. ___ Maria or mire lumo, Maria or yare li vao. = After Maria saw light, Maria went to the door.
  5. ___ Maria el kale luno, Aleso or hile Maria. = While Maria was writing the text, Aleso called Maria.
  6. ___ Maria or mire lumo, Maria e miri. = Since Maria saw light, Maria understands.

C. Sentence Combining

Combine the two Kai sentences using the requested time gate.

  1. Use rinum va: Maria or yare li vao. + Aleso en yaro.
  2. Use rinor va: Maria or mire lumo. + Maria or yare li vao.
  3. Use rinel va: Maria el kale luno. + Aleso or hile Maria.
  4. Use rinna va: Aleso or hile Maria. + Maria e niva.
  5. Use rinor va: Mi um yare li noa. + Mi or kale luno.
  6. Use rinel va: Nai el yare al yaro. + Lumo en vao.

D. English to Kai

Write each sentence in Kai.

  1. Maria saw light before / in the past.
  2. Maria remembered seeing light before.
  3. Before Maria went to the door, Aleso was on the road.
  4. After Aleso called Maria, Maria heard Aleso.
  5. While Maria was writing a text, Aleso called Maria.
  6. While we were working, they listened.
  7. Since I saw you, I understand.
  8. Since we went home, quiet is in us.
  9. After I remembered going home, I wrote the text.
  10. Before we went to the clinic, we ate food.

E. Timeline Practice

Put these events into a clear Kai timeline. Use at least one rinum va, one rinor va, and one rinel va.

  1. Maria was writing a text.
  2. Aleso called Maria.
  3. Maria heard Aleso.
  4. Maria went to the door.
  5. Aleso was on the road before Maria went to the door.

F. Guided Story Writing

  1. Write an eight-line Kai scene. Include:
  • one broad past-time sentence with rinum
  • one ordinary completed event with or
  • one remembered event with um
  • one before clause with rinum va
  • one after clause with rinor va
  • one while clause with rinel va
  • one since clause with rinna va
  • one clear repeated name instead of an ambiguous si
  1. Rewrite this overloaded English-style sentence as three or four short Kai sentences:

Before Maria went to the door, she remembered seeing the light, and while Aleso was on the road, he called her.

  1. Explain in English why Maria um yare li yaro is different from Maria or yare li yaro.