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another one

Postby bigmac1359 » 2007-10-26, 14:44

please help me on this also

i'm/she,he,it is

attractive
cute
beautiful
handsome
ugly
big
small
tall
short
nice
kind
clean
dirty
thin
fat
muscular
toned
fit
blond
red-haired
brunet
dark-haired
healthy
weak
slow
stupid
arrogant
elegant
sophisticated
loud
hard
soft
friendly
reclusive
Jolly
happy
lonely
sad
horny
bad
grumpy
grouchy
cliquish
stingy
lazy
jealous
envious
flirtatious
scoundrel
dangerous
funny
loving
caring
passionate
romantic
geek
nerd
clumsy
sensitive
bitch (referring to bad girls)
decent
sissy
lewd
strict
holy
industrious
hard working
greedy
shrewd
cheerful
lovable
kissable/kissable lips
sexy
hot (attractive person)
lousy
gloomy
naughty
mad
excited
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Do you speak English/Hawaiian?
I don't understand Hawaiian?
I do speak Hawaiian?
Do you understand Hawaiian?
I do know how to speak English/Hawaiian?


thank you in advance

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Re: another one

Postby Mamo » 2007-11-09, 9:13

bigmac1359 wrote:please help me on this also

i'm/she,he,it is

attractive
cute
beautiful
handsome
ugly
big
small
tall
short
nice
kind
clean
dirty
thin
fat
muscular
toned
fit
blond
red-haired
brunet
dark-haired
healthy
weak
slow
stupid
arrogant
elegant
sophisticated
loud
hard
soft
friendly
reclusive
Jolly
happy
lonely
sad
horny
bad
grumpy
grouchy
cliquish
stingy
lazy
jealous
envious
flirtatious
scoundrel
dangerous
funny
loving
caring
passionate
romantic
geek
nerd
clumsy
sensitive
bitch (referring to bad girls)
decent
sissy
lewd
strict
holy
industrious
hard working
greedy
shrewd
cheerful
lovable
kissable/kissable lips
sexy
hot (attractive person)
lousy
gloomy
naughty
mad
excited
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Hi there. When you want to say that "I'm/he/she/it/something is _X_," where "_X_" is a stative verb (verb implying a quality or "state" of something, like yellow, happy, long, rough, pleasant, sad, etc.) the pattern is:

stative verb + subject

So, for example, if we want to say "he/she" is attractive (the Hawaiian third person singular pronoun is used for both genders), we would say: U'i 'o ia. U'i is the stative verb, and ia is the subject; ia is commonly preceded by the subject marker 'o, so it is usually 'o ia, as it is here.

Now that you know how the pattern works, you can help yourself by using the Hawaiian dictionary here http://wehewehe.org/gsdl2.5/cgi-bin/hdi ... 00&d=&l=en

Locate the word you want to translate, and insert it into the pattern. I will not translate that list for you because you are now able to find the answers for yourself.

I will, however, translate the last part of your list:

1. Do you speak English/Hawaiian?
2. I don't understand Hawaiian?
3. I do speak Hawaiian?
4. Do you understand Hawaiian?
5. I do know how to speak English/Hawaiian?


1. ‘Ōlelo Hawai῾i ‘oe?
2. ‘A῾ole maopopo ia῾u ka ‘ōlelo Hawai῾i.
3. ‘Ōlelo Hawai῾i au.
4. Maopopo iā ‘oe ka ‘ōlelo Hawai῾i?
5. Maopopo ia῾u ka ‘ōlelo Hawai῾i.

If you want to substitute "English" for any of the parts saying "Hawaiian," then put "haole" in place of "Hawai'i" in the Hawaiian sentences.

Mamo
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Postby Mamo » 2007-11-10, 1:22

Sorry, I should've added one more thing. The 'o (subject marker) usually only marks proper nouns, and the personal pronoun ia. Aside from that, it is generally not used. And if ia is used to mean "it" rather than "he/she," then the 'o does not precede it.

Examples:

U'i 'o Alicia Keys = Alicia keys is beautiful.
U'i 'o ia = He/she is beautiful.

U'i ka wahine = The woman is beautiful.
U'i ka'u wahine = My girlfriend (woman) is beautiful.

U'i ia = It is beautiful.

Notice that the first two take the 'o subject marker (because we have a proper noun and then the third person singular pronoun ia), and the last three don't.


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