OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

Entry record from de Clercq (1890): Ternate

Page number: 287

fangaré ngomi, ngofangaré ngomi

•  (more polite to superiors) we; us(eng).wij; ons(nld).

fangaré ngomi mi tagi kagéwe are going there(eng)

fangaré òtimy proa(eng)

Note: masculine plural and for emphasis with mi, Also possessive pronoun. N.B. Ngori also means “we” but more haughtily, as from the Sultan to his subjects, similar to the Malay kita