pema adverb English. Indicating a possible negatively viewed happenstance: perhaps. Example sentence: Subanen. Sa' saakan ka, ndi' mu pema sembagen; ndi' la mpia pu' mekebusung, labi na sa' nga mekegulang. English. When someone asks you something, it is not good for you perhaps not to answer because it will make something bad happen, especially if the someone is your parents. Example sentence: Subanen. Gapuy kiin, medepet pema di pilang kiin, pungun mu ig luten kiin di titenga' gebuan kiin. English. That fire is probably going to reach the sides of the fire table; pile up the coals there in the middle of the fire table. Example sentence: Subanen. Naa ki nga getaw mimilas gupia dini Dumpeken kia, mipati' ilan gupia mendek. Laung nilan, “Mabu' metuud pema su tinalu' ni Dumpeken pu' megbagyu.” English. Now then, the people who disbelieved Dumpeken, they were terribly afraid. They said, “Probably what Dumpeken said was perhaps true that the deluge is coming.”