With you

One small word for with — and a warm thing to say with it.

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1 · Say this

mi shan we tu (mee · shahn · weh · too) I'm glad to be with you. (literally: "I'm at peace — with you.")

You already know mi shan — I'm at peace / settled (from shan, the peace-word in Lesson 4). The new piece is we — with. Tack it on, name who you're with, and you've said something genuinely kind.

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2 · A closer look: we, and its opposite

Amatu	Says	Means
we	"weh"	with / alongside

we sits right before the person you're with. And to say without, you reach for the flip-word no from Lesson 3 — drop it in front:

no we tu — without you.

It bolts onto things you already say, too:

mi vanu we la — I go with her. (the mi vanu from Lesson 4, plus with her)

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💛 The feeling mi shan we tu doesn't say "I'm near you" — it says being with you is where I'm settled. It hands the other person credit for your peace, the same way mi pai to tu (Lesson 9) hands them credit for your wellbeing. Amatu likes to locate good feelings in the people who cause them.

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⚠️ Watch out we starts with the w of wet — rounded lips, "weh." It is not the v of vo (Lesson 11). Amatu keeps w and v firmly apart; we is "weh," never "veh."

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3 · Your turn

Out loud:

1. I'm glad to be with you → mi shan we tu
2. Without you → no we tu
3. I go with her → mi vanu we la

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4 · Tonight's phrase

mi shan we tu — I'm glad to be with you — and its shadow, no we tu.

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30-second check

Cover the page. (1) Tell someone you're glad to be with them. (2) Say without you. (3) Notice you didn't learn a new "without" — you reused the no from Lesson 3. Three for three? You can now place yourself beside the people you care about.

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