Appendix:Toki Pona/pi

Etymology
From, from belong.

Usage notes

 * Without pi, each content word modifies the preceding phrase individually in succession. pi regroups the following words to modify the preceding phrase as a unit. It is roughly equivalent to hyphenating a phrasal adjective in English.
 * Using pi followed by one word is proscribed. As there is nothing to regroup, the meaning is unchanged from the same phrase without pi.
 * If pi is used twice in one phrase, there is no consensus on whether the second pi phrase modifies the first pi phrase (nested), or both modify the head phrase (flat).
 * pi is often glossed as “of”, in the sense of introducing a postmodifying noun phrase. Using pi for its other senses is proscribed. Note that phrases without pi can be translated using of, as in , “the language of good”.
 * While pi can occur before possessive phrases, it does not itself mark the possessive. Compare tomo , “my house”, and tomo pi jan Epawan, “Abraham's house”. Both modifiers are possessive; the pi merely groups the two words in the proper name.