Meaning

1 senses

  1. (Northern English, auxiliary, defective, dialectal, modal)Must.

Examples

2 sentences

  1. Maybe, my favourite Toki Pona word is "mun," meaning "moon" or a "celestial object."

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  2. I think that my favourite word in Toki Pona is "mun" for "moon." It's cute.

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Origin

From Middle English mone (“shall, must”), from Old Norse munu (“shall, must”), from Proto-

From Middle English mone (“shall, must”), from Old Norse munu (“shall, must”), from Proto-Germanic *munaną.

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Forms

muns, munning, munned, munned
Base formmun · to mun
3rd person singularmuns
Present participlemunning
Past simplemunned
Past participlemunned

regular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theymun
he, she, itmuns

Past simpleLesson

all personsmunned

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave munned
he, she, ithas munned

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill mun

Lessons for this word

1 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
mumbleB2mummymumpsmunchC1mundane

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