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substitute
/sab-sti-toot/

vi.

1.
Def.: igpakasubal
MS: igpakasubal
If you substitute for someone, you are there in their place, and do their things, because they are not there. If something substitutes for another thing, it is in the place of the other thing, because the other thing is not there.
Money can never substitute for love.
Ka seleppì kenè igpakasubal te geyinawa.
Our teacher was sick yesterday, so another teacher substituted for him.

vt.

2.
Def.: egsaliyuwan
MS: egsaliyuwan
If you substitute one thing for another thing, you use the first thing and not the second thing, so that the first thing is in the place of the second thing.
When you cook that food, substitute water for milk if you don't have milk.
Ke egsusubba ka te sika ne pegkeen, saliyui nu te weyig ke warad gatas nu ne igweyig.
The coach substituted me for the goalshooter, because the goalshooter was injured.

n-ct.

3.
Def.: subal
MS: subal
a person or thing which is there in the place of another thing.
The teacher yesterday was a substitute, because our real teacher was sick.
Ka talagpanulù gabii iyan subal, su ka malehet ne talagpanulù ney migderalu.
Some people use spices as a substitute for salt.
Sem.Dom.: AWL5

substitution
/sab-sti-too-shən/

n-uc, n-ct.
Def.: 1 pegsubal; 2 pegsaliyu
MS: pegsubal; pegsaliyu
the action of substituting.
Status: ready

Last updated: 18/Jan/2012