For someone, something, an event, condition (actor) to be a relatively long time, i.e., after the expected time, of someone or something involved in an event; for an event to occur late; for a condition to last for a long time.
Occurs only as a sentence introducer followed by ya un. Unspecified, reference is to the completion of an event; reference to the beginning must be specified.
Hīgab ya un miyamma nan payaw'u ti mi'id munggāud
(It will be) a long time before my pond field will be made because there is no one to do spadework.