Bed

One new word today, and that's the whole list. Everything else is already yours — so this lesson is a soft landing: a single word to add, and the comfort of saying something you've half been saying for weeks.

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1 · Say this

mi somi in tanda (mee · SOH-mee · een · TAHN-da) I sleep in bed.

You already know mi (I, Lesson 1), somi (sleep, Lesson 4), and in (in/at, Lesson 37). The one new word is tanda — bed. Slot it onto the end of a phrase you already own, and you've said where you sleep.

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2 · A closer look: tanda

tanda is just bed — the thing you fall into at night. Two open syllables, nothing hidden:

Amatu	Says	Means
tanda	"TAHN-da"	bed

Same building blocks you've used for weeks, with one fresh word slotted in:

mi somi in tanda — I sleep in bed. mi fia in tanda — I want (to be) in bed. tanda de mi — my bed. no tanda — no bed.

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🎯 Pro tip Notice you didn't learn a single new piece of grammar today — just one noun. That in in mi somi in tanda is your old in/at word from Lesson 37; somi (sleep) and de (of/my) are exactly as you left them. This is the rhythm of a real vocabulary: most days you add a word, not a rule.

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⚠️ Watch out Both vowels in tanda are the clean open "ah" — "TAHN-da." Keep that second vowel full: "TAHN-da," not "TAHN-duh." Amatu never softens an unstressed vowel.

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3 · Your turn

Out loud:

1. I sleep in bed → mi somi in tanda
2. I want (to be) in bed → mi fia in tanda
3. my bed → tanda de mi
4. no bed → no tanda

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4 · Tonight's phrase

mi somi in tanda — I sleep in bed — one new word riding on top of everything you already own.

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30-second check

Cover the page. (1) Say I sleep in bed. (2) Say my bed. (3) Flip to no bed. Three for three? Then you just proved the point of today: one fresh word, and the whole sentence still falls out of your mouth on its own.

⬅️ Back: Lesson 37 — Where is it? · ➡️ Next: Lesson 39 — Let's eat