Goal

Count, talk about amount, and mark plural clearly.

New Grammar

• Use plu when plurality should be explicit.
• Use common quantity words with nouns.
• Use ke mui for quantity questions.
• Build larger numbers with ten, sento, and kilo.
• Learn the listed ordinals uno-loke, duo-loke, and san-loke.

Core Vocabulary

Mini-ma	English
plu	plural marker
ale	all
some	some
duo	two
san	three
kinde	child
amigo	friend
libro	book
mano	hand
ten	ten
sento	hundred
kilo	thousand
uno-loke	first
duo-loke	second
san-loke	third

Model Examples

plu kinde i resi
The children sleep.

ale amigo i pale
All friends speak.

some amigo i veni
Some friends come.

uno buku e en mesa
One book is on the table.

duo mano
two hands

tu i ave a ke mui buku?
How many books do you have?

uno-ten uno
11

san-sento fo-ten ba
348

uno-kilo uno-sento duo-ten san
1123

si i veni en uno-loke
He or she came in first place.

di a duo-loke
This is the second.

di a san-loke
This is the third.

Guided Notes

• plu is useful when English clearly needs a plural.
• Without plu, Mini-ma can still rely on context, but this course prefers explicit number when it matters.
• Use dedicated plural pronouns such as si-ale and tu-ale instead of plu plus a pronoun.
• Quantity words come before the noun phrase.
• Use a ke mui [noun] for object questions like tu i ave a ke mui buku?.
• Use ke mui [noun] directly for measure questions like ke mui vasa e en oda fonte?.
• Build larger numbers from big to small groups and leave out zero groups.
• duo-ten penta means 25, literally “two tens five”.
• In v1.3, only the listed ordinals are taught as standard: uno-loke, duo-loke, and san-loke.

Practice

1. Translate into Mini-ma: “three children”
2. Translate into Mini-ma: “All friends speak.”
3. Translate into English: plu buku e en kaja
4. Reorder: plu / i / amigo / veni
5. Translate 25 into Mini-ma.
6. Translate 1123 into Mini-ma.
7. Translate into Mini-ma: “How many books do you have?”
8. Translate into Mini-ma: “This is the second.”
9. Translate into English: si i veni en uno-loke

Mini Recap

You can now count and mark plural clearly.