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With all my heart

Today, the word at the very center of Amatu: kara, the heart. With it, I love you grows into something you say with your whole chest.

1 · Say this

mi ama tu we kara de mi (mee · AH-ma · too · weh · KAH-ra · deh · mee) I love you with my heart.

Every word here is already yours but one. mi ama tu is I love you (Lesson 1); we is with (Lesson 14); de mi is my (Lesson 22). The new word is kara — heart, the felt center. So: I love you — with my heart.

2 · A closer look: kara on its own

Amatu Says Means
kara "KAH-ra" heart / felt center

kara is a plain noun, so it pairs with de mi (my) — the same little my you've been using since Lesson 22:

kara de mi — my heart

kara de mi li pai — my heart is well. (with li from Lesson 12 and pai from Lesson 3)

And because we (with, Lesson 14) joins onto whatever follows it, we kara de mi simply means with my heart — your old we and your old de mi, carrying the new word between them.

💛 The feeling In Amatu, kara isn't the blood-pump — it's where feeling and body meet, the place you point to when you say I feel it here. Adding we kara de mi to mi ama tu doesn't just decorate it; it tells the other person the love is felt, not merely stated. It's the difference between I love you and I love you, and I mean it with everything in me.

⚠️ Watch out Three light, even beats: "KAH-ra-deh-mee." Don't crush de mi into the noun — kara is one word, de mi is the little my that follows, each vowel kept full.

3 · Your turn

Out loud:

  1. My heart → kara de mi
  2. My heart is well → kara de mi li pai
  3. With my heart → we kara de mi
  4. The whole phrase → mi ama tu we kara de mi

4 · Tonight's phrase

mi ama tu we kara de mi — I love you with my heart — the very first phrase, grown up.

30-second check

Cover the page. (1) Say my heart. (2) Say my heart is well. (3) Say the whole thing — I love you with my heart. Three for three? You've taken the first phrase you ever learned and deepened it — same words you started with, now carrying far more.

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