pinis
See also: piņīs
Cebuano
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: pi‧nis
Noun
pinis
- any of several bleeding-hearts found in the Philippines:
- the Negros bleeding-heart (Gallicolumba keayi)
- the Luzon bleeding-heart (Gallicolumba luzonica)
- the Mindanao bleeding-heart (Gallicolumba crinigera)
- the Sulu bleeding-heart (Gallicolumba menagei)
- the Mindoro bleeding-heart (Gallicolumba platenae))
Latin
Noun
pīnīs
- dative/ablative plural of pīnus
Tok Pisin
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Etymology
From English finish.
Particle
pinis
- Marks perfect tense
- (rare) Marks passive voice construction
- 1995, John Verhaar, Toward a reference grammar of Tok Pisin: an experiment in corpus linguistics, →ISBN, page 433:
- Mekim olsem pinis, orait tupela i planim taro na banana, na kumu, painap, kon, tomato, na kaukau tu.
- (please add an English translation of this quote)
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See also
Tok Pisin tense markers:
- pinis (past perfect tense)
- bin (simple past tense)
- stap (progressive tense)
- bai/baimbai (future tense)
Verb
pinis intrans., transitive pinisim
- be finished; done with