Why does kepeken in Toki Pona sometimes gets an object introduced by an e ?

That's because before pu , the lessons mostly go back to jan Pije's TP course and in these kepeken is a verb ( from the Dutch verb gebruiken ) ... In the past, I check this out because of the usage of lon and tawa construction without an e ...

Even in his updated lessons (2015 /// http://tokipona.net/tp/janpije/okamasona.php ), jan Pije has kepeken with an e construction :

kepeken

It's easy to use kepeken as an action verb. You use e after it like with most other verbs.
mi kepeken e ilo. I'm using tools.
sina wile kepeken e ilo. You have to use tools.
mi kepeken e poki ni. I'm using that cup.
kepeken can also be a preposition.
mi moku kepeken ilo moku. I eat using a fork.
mi lukin kepeken ilo suno. I look using a flashlight. (ilo suno = a tool of light, hence flashlight)
The Russian, Catalan, French, Spanish, Dutch, Farsi, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Esperanto, etc. TP courses all go back to jan Pije's course in his 2003 (later 2005) version ...
especially since the official TP site was lacking course material for quite a long time (since 2011) and still is ...

Same goes for the derived

jan Lope's PDF Toki Pona course

Toki Pona the language of good – the simple way of life
Creator: Sonja Elen Kisa – Richard (jan Maraskuu), Canada [4, 3]
Author: B. J. Knight (jan Pije), USA [6, 7]
LATEX: Robert Warnke (jan Lope), Germany [8]
December 4, 2005
http://lolcathost.org/t/toki-pona-lessons.pdf
was one of stable references for Toki Pona for almost a decade ... and also has the 'kepeken e' as a verbal construction ...

So, it's because the courses go all back to the earilier version by jan Sonja herself ... it is she who changes her mind from time to time ... I have heard the French version of pu would also have some changes versus the English one ... I don't have it yet ... so I can't confirm this ... anyway there is a reason why kepeken keeps having direct objects introduced by 'e' ...

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