High Frequency Word Combinations in Toki Pona

The following is a list of word combinations in Toki Pona that were found in a corpus to have frequencies as high as those of single words that are in common usage. Those marked with an asterisk may simply be collocations rather than word combinations – that is, words that are often used together, not two words that are combined to represent a particular third concept. They have been left in for the reader to judge for themselves. See link for full explanation of this corpus project.

No.	Ngram	Literal Translation	Meaning	Frequency	Range
1	toki pona	simple speak	Toki Pona	1183	55
2	ma tomo	building place	city	439	38
3	tempo pini	finished time	the past	434	52
4	tenpo suno	sun time	day	377	50
5	kama sona	come to know	learn	363	54
6	pilin ike*	bad feeling	bad feeling	346	53
7	kama jo	come to have	get	339	49
8	jan lili	small person	child	314	44
9	jan ante	different persn	others	309	53
10	tu wan	two one	three	274	46
11	tenpo sike	circle time	year	264	38
12	pilin pona*	good feeling	good feeling	257	44
13	jan ale	all people	everyone	249	53
14	tenpo kama	coming time	future	239	48
15	tenpo mute	many time	often	233	51
16	jan pali	work person	worker	213	35
17	tan seme	because what	why	213	55
18	jan lawa	head person	leader	202	47
19	nasin sewi	god way	religion	202	23
20	ma ni	this place	here	199	41
21	anu seme	or what	yes-no question marker	192	43
22	tomo tawa	moving building	car	187	33
23	tenpo lili	small time	quickly	168	42
24	mi mute	many me	us	162	37
25	jan pona	kind person	friend	162	44
26	wan taso	only one	alone	162	43
27	tu tu	two two	four	157	34
28	ante mute	many different	diversity	154	38
29	mute mute	many many	40, extremely	152	33
30	kama suli*	become big	become big	152	47
31	kalama musi	entertaining sound	music	146	21
32	suli mute	much large	enormous	145	42
33	ma kasi	plant place	forest	144	40
34	tenpo ale	all time	always	143	42
35	tawa weka	go away	flee	139	34
36	kasi suli	large plant	tree	137	27
37	sitelen pona	good symbol	Toki Pona hieroglyphs	129	23
38	luka luka	five five	ten	128	25
39	ijo ante	other thing	replacement	126	41
40	ona tu	two he/she/it	the two of them	124	31
41	toki ante	different talk	translate	123	34
42	telo suli	large water	sea	120	29
43	tomo mi	my building	my home	119	29
44	kulupu ni*	this group	this group	119	39
45	luka tu	five two	seven	115	33
46	kama pona	become good	recover, improve	113	44
47	tenpo suli	large time	a long time	112	35
48	ante toki	speaking different	translate	111	31
49	tenpo pimeja	black time	night	109	30
50	toki musi	entertaining talk	poem, joke	106	31
51	tawa wawa	strong movement	run	106	27
52	jan sona	knowledge person	teacher	105	31
53	kama weka	become away	disappear	96	21
54	tomo sona	knowledge building	school	95	33
55	ma ale	all place	everywhere	94	36
56	ilo sona	knowledge device	computer	93	27
57	kulupu lawa	head group	congress, committee	91	23
58	kama sin	come newly	return	90	29
59	tenpo mun	moon time	month	88	28
60	toki lili	small talk	summary, remarks	86	26
61	nasin pona	good way	solution, morality	85	29