Goal

Learn how Mini-ma builds many new meanings from simple parts.

New Grammar

• Hyphen compounds are a core strategy in Mini-ma.
• A good compound should be easy to understand from its parts.
• Fixed grammatical sets such as ke-* and nulo-* are learned as standard sets, not invented freely.

Core Vocabulary

Mini-ma	English
regen	rain
uti	tool, use
pasa-pota	passport
regen-uti	umbrella
sole	sun
begin	start
tempo	time
kilo	thousand
gama	gram
vino	wine

Model Examples

regen-uti
umbrella

pasa-pota
passport

sole begin
sunrise

200 kilo-gama de vino
200 kilograms of wine

Guided Notes

• Some compounds use a hyphen, and some short combinations may appear as separate words in explanation. In formal Mini-ma, prefer visible hyphenation for multi-part compounds.
• Compounds help Mini-ma stay small without needing many endings.
• Open lexical compounds are productive, but fixed grammar sets like ke-* and nulo-* are not expanded freely in this course.
• Learn the parts and you can guess new meanings.

Practice

1. Translate into English: regen-uti
2. Translate into English: pasa-pota
3. Build a Mini-ma compound for “rain tool”.
4. Write one short noun phrase with a compound.

Mini Recap

If you know the pieces, you can build and understand many words quickly.