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One new word today, and that's the whole list. Everything else is already yours — so this lesson is a soft place to land: a single warm word to add, and a chance to feel how naturally it settles into phrases you've owned for weeks.

1 · Say this

mi in domu (mee · een · DOH-moo) I am at home.

You already know mi (I, Lesson 1) and in (in / at, Lesson 37). The one new word is domu — home. Set yourself inside it with in, the same little word you've used to put things in a place, and you've said I am at home without a scrap of new grammar.

2 · A closer look: domu

domu is home — the house, the place you come back to, the four walls and the warmth. Two open syllables, stress on the first: "DOH-moo." Nothing hidden, nothing tricky.

Amatu Says Means
domu "DOH-moo" home

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

mi in domu — I am at home. domu de mi — my home. no domu — homeless (literally no home). domu li pai — The home is good.

🎯 Pro tip Look how far one noun travels. de (of / my, Lesson 22) turns it into domu de mi — my home. Your old flip-word no (Lesson 3) makes no domu — no home, homeless. And po (there is, Lesson 49) gives you domu po — there is a home. You didn't learn a single new rule today; you just handed an old toolbox one more thing to hold.

💛 A warm one Of all the nouns you could add, home is the one that quietly colors everything around it. mi in domu isn't just a location — it's the breath you let out when the day is done.

⚠️ Watch out Keep both vowels full and round: "DOH-moo," not "DOH-muh." The stress sits on the first syllable. And that final u is the clean "oo" of boot — Amatu never softens an unstressed vowel, so it stays "moo" to the end.

3 · Your turn

Out loud:

  1. I am at home → mi in domu
  2. My home → domu de mi
  3. The home is good → domu li pai
  4. I want a home → mi fia domu

4 · Tonight's phrase

mi in domu — I am at home — one new word, and a whole feeling slotted in beside it.

30-second check

Cover the page. (1) Say I am at home. (2) Turn it into my home. (3) Say homeless with your old flip-word. Three for three? Then you've proved today's quiet lesson again: one warm noun, and the sentences still fall out of your mouth on their own.

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