pira Sense adv English How many? Example sentence Tagbanwa Pira i mga anak mu? English How many children do you have? Example sentence Tagbanwa Pira|rng batu i magayen mu? English How many do you want? Example sentence Tagbanwa Kapira-pira aku na magtuturan! English How ever many times will I tell that story! Sense adj Affixes it English *Some *of. Example sentence Tagbanwa May pira it imyu nga ega kamatuudan i pamaya' yat aken. English There are some of you whose belief in me is not true. Sense adj English *Few. Example sentence Tagbanwa Pira mana bayning batu i maamama'en, ta unu pay mabagi'? English There are so few of these betel nuts, so how could they be shared? v -en English To make out there are very few. Example sentence Tagbanwa Unuka pinira-pira mu gay atnat tegnek i a'ay? English Why did you say there were very few of them when their legs are just like a row of close fence palings? See alsobeken Sense pira daw adv English Very few. Example sentence Tagbanwa Ega bay taban yat miyabut, rum'ur it pira daw nga batuy maamama'en. English He had nothing with him when he arrived, nothing but a very few betel nuts. Example sentence Tagbanwa Abutan namen i mga manuk namen, pira daw manang batu. English When we got to our chickens, there were very few of them left.