Compppund words with pi

Now, you might remember that tomo telo ("water room") is used to mean "restroom". You should also recall that nasa means "crazy", "silly", "stupid", and so on. Now, let's look at this sentence:

mi tawa tomo telo nasa.		I went to the crazy restroom.

Okay, I think you'll agree with me when I say that that is just plain weird. It makes me think about some creepy restroom with neon lights lining the floor and a strobe light in every toilet stall. Now, the person who said this sentence had actually been trying to say that he had gone to a bar. As you probably recall, telo nasa is used to mean "alcohol". So, a tomo with telo nasa would be a "bar". The only problem is that you can't fit tomo and telo nasa together, because it will mean "crazy restroom," as you just studied. The only way to fix this problem is to use pi:

tomo pi telo nasa

building of alcohol; a bar, pub, etc.

We're going to go over a bunch of examples using pi; but, you need to be familiar with some of the compound noun combinations that we've learned.

jan pi ma tomo		person of the city, a city-dweller
kulupu pi toki pona		the Toki Pona community
nasin pi toki pona		the ideology behind Toki Pona
jan lawa pi jan utala		leader of soldiers (commander, general)
jan lawa pi tomo tawa kon		leader of airplanes, a pilot
jan pi nasin sewi Kolisu		person of Christian religion, a Christian
nasin sewi		religion
jan pi pona lukin		an attractive person
jan pi ike lukin		an ugly person
jan utala pi ma Mewika li ike tawa ma ali.		Soldiers of the USA are bad for the world.