2012 August 23, Nick Middleton,Surviving Extremes: Ice, Jungle, Sand and Swamp, Pan Macmillan,→ISBN, page84:
One thing about thebais that I hadn't fully taken on board while reading about them was that they tend to be waterlogged because they are usually associated with marshes, streams or springs.[…] venturing into thebai, but[…] plunging into thebai because[…]
Gorillas (and other wildlife) frequent suchbais, which are waterlogged and sunny, because of the sodium-rich sedges and asters that grow beneath the open sky.
Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the criticaltonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.
will; to be going (to do something);marksfuture tense.
1989,Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea,Jenesis1:26:
Bihain God i tok olsem, “Nau yumi wokim ol manmeribai ol i kamap olsem yumi yet. Bai yumi putim ol i stap bos bilong ol pis na ol pisin na bilong olgeta kain animal na bilong olgeta samting bilong graun.”
Then God said, "Now let us make people whowill become like us. We'll put them in charge of the fish and the birds, of all kinds of animals and of all things on the ground."
so that;to;introducingpurposive clauses with a different subject from the matrix clause.
Mi laikbai yu stap bel isi.
I want youto feel safe/relaxed.
Na ol i save askim mi long mekim stretpela pasin long ol na stap klostu long ol,bai em i ken amamas.
And they always ask me to treat them justly and stay close to themso that they may feel secure.
D. G. Lewis, N. Lewis, editors (2005–present), “bai”, inGweiadur: the Welsh–English Dictionary, Gwerin
R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “bai”, inGeiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies