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How to use '''ona''' and '''ni''' and their differences:
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*mi kepeken ilo.
*jan Mimi li moku e kili
*kasi mute li lon. ona laso li pona. - There are many plants. The blue ones [plants] are good.
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Besides being able to contain the information of a noun phrase, it can also hold the information of an entire sentence. Not only that, the information that ''ni'' contains can come after it is said, examples:
*mi kepeken ilo.
*jan Mimi li moku e kili ni: ona li loje walo li tan ma Pasiju. - Mimi is eating this [information will come] fruit: it [the fruit] is whitish red and it comes from Brazil.
*mi wile kama sona e toki Alapi. mi o
Note that when ''
*mi moku e kili.
*mi moku e kili. kili ni li pona. - I eat a fruit. This fruit is good.
Notice in the first example of each (mi kepeken ilo), how substituting ''
*mi wile ala moku e kili
*mi wile ala moku e kili
*mi sona e toki mute.
*mi sona e toki mute.
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