olsem

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] English all + same.

Adverb

olsem

1. thus; as
   • 1995, John Verhaar, Toward a reference grammar of Tok Pisin: an experiment in corpus linguistics‎^[1], →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 quotation)

2. to (indirect object, in the sense of "similar to")
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Conjunction

olsem

1. as
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Preposition

olsem

1. like

Derived terms

• olsem na
• luk olsem