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(Created page with "'''{{wp|Antonym}}s''' are words with opposite meanings, like {{tp|pona}} and {{tp|ike}}, and are the opposite of synonyms. In some logographic writing systems, like {{tp|sitelen pona}}, some antonyms also use opposite glyphs. If Toki Pona were more dedicated to minimalism, antonyms might have been merged to further reduce the vocabulary. Instead, many of these words have different semantic spaces or parts of speech. For example: * {{tp|pimeja}} c...") |
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{{tp|[[ala]]}} may be used as a [[modifier]] to <em>vaguely</em> form an opposite. In one [[context]], {{tp|ike ala}} could mean {{tp|pona}}, while in another, the speaker could simply feel neutral. More rarely, {{tp|jasima}}, a {{tp|[[nimi ku suli]]}}, is used for true "negative" opposites ({{tp|jasima ijo ≠ ijo ala}}), leaving {{tp|ala}} to specify "absence of" opposites.
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