Kere kere

Aka, our house girl, ‘kere kere’-ed our television. She walked in and asked ‘kere kere, can I borrow your television?’. A direct translation of this would be ‘please can I borrow your television?’ but in Fijian this means ‘please can I borrow your television (and not give it back)?. Good thing Deb and I don’t watch it anyway.