In this section you will begin learning parts of speech and the coordinating kind of vocabulary.
Weʻve already posted the basics to practice with and have given a little time for you to build whatever memory you needed, before moving forward.
Just in case you didnʻt pay that much attention in English class either, we are going to go over some things that will help bring home what we are about to embark on.
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- VERB: Haʻina, haʻihana. Kinds: haʻina pili, haʻina pili aku (active); haʻina kōkua (auxiliary); haʻina ʻokoʻa, haʻina pili ʻole aku (intransitive); haʻina kekeʻe (irregular); haʻina ʻokoʻa (neuter); haʻina pili, haʻina pili aku (transitive); haʻina pili iā haʻi (transitive active); haʻina pili ʻia mai (transitive passive); ka haʻi ʻana i ka hana aku (active verb); ka haʻi ʻana i ka hana ʻia mai (passive verb).
- ADJECTIVE: Haʻiʻano. Verbal adjective, haʻina pili haʻiinoa.
- NOUN: Haʻiinoa. See common noun, proper noun. Noun complement, ukali haʻiinoa.
- ADVERB: Haʻinaleʻa, kōkuahaʻina. Directional adverb, haʻinaleʻa kuhikuhi.
- PREPOSITION: ʻInaleo, ʻinawaena (part of speech).
- PRONOUN: Paniinoa (for various types, see Haw.-Eng. entry).
In these lessons, you will learn it the Hawaiʻian way.
The above information will help you in the long run.
Nā ʻAmi
nvi. Hinge, joint; to turn on hinges. Ihu ʻami, nose with irregularly shaped bridge.
The word Nā that often comes before words, indicates that whatever youʻre talking about, there is more than one. If you speak Spanish, it is equivalent to the word Los. For example, Los Angeles actually means the angels. However in English, we only put an s on the end of the word.
In both Hawaiʻian and Spanish, the word the changes to indicate a plural noun.
The word ʻAmi is a hinge that holds the sentence structure together and serves as the flexible glue that allows a sentence to become more specific.
Mea Hoʻohālikelike
For Example
Hele au i ke kula.
I am going to school.
In this example sentence, the letter i is the ʻami.
Hele au means Iʻm going.
The ʻami serves as the hinge that connects the fact that you are going,
with the place that you are going.
Aia ʻo penikala i ke pakaukau.
The pencil is on the table/desk.
In this example, the i is the ʻami and is indicating that the pencil is on the table or desk.
Once again, it is connecting something with a location. The ʻami i is not restricted to location though. Hereʻs one more mea hoʻohālikelike:
Hana make ʻo Johnny i ka tutua.
Johnny killed the monster.
In this example, the i connects Johnnyʻs action with the object that received Johnnyʻs action.
Johnny killed, and the monster received the death. the ʻami was the hinge that made the connection.
However, i is not the only ʻami.
We donʻt want to confuse you, so we will show you another common ʻami and come back to this as our language skills grow. Right now, we are going to establish a foundation to work with.
The best way to do that is the simple way.
Mea Hoʻohālikelike:
Noho au ma Honolulu.
I stay in Honolulu.
Hele ʻo ia ma Kauaʻi.
He/She/It is going to Kauai.
When ma is the ʻami, it is generally attached to a location.
So when speaking of a location, either i or ma can be used however
only i can be used in other circumstances.
Donʻt worry if things donʻt make sense yet.
At this point, we canʻt see the building because we are only building the foundation so far. Do right now, we are basically at the point of general memorization.
Although you donʻt literally have homework, we will always give something at the end of each lesson. Why? Because that specific activity will be coordinated to help you soak in that particular papa ʻōlelo and will generally help you strengthen that skill.
We donʻt generally urge you to try to go too far in understanding, as that will come on its own. If you donʻt understand, try to simply memorize. But please donʻt try to go too far in teaching yourself yet, if this is not easy as pie yet. It often causes grief in the long run of the learning process. Better if you simply get stronger in the areas you are already good at. There will be times when its just hard for a minute. Then suddenly, understanding shows up and everything is fine again. No matter where you are with it, thatʻs perfectly normal.
If we are moving too slow, kala mai au iā ʻoe - my apologies to you.
Itʻs simply a pace thing. Both my time and yours is limited and we push only as far as we can naturally go. We trust that the rest will come.
Haʻawina
Homework
- Try to read things and like a word search, look for the ʻami.
- Continue to read Ka HaKaLaMa & Nā Helu out loud every day
- Every time you have to write the date, write it out in Hawaiian.
- When you get good at that, add the day to it.
Each activity we give is expected that you continue that activity until one of two things happen:
- Either you memorized it so well that you can say it if someone asked you, or
- Until it becomes the normal thing to do.
If you have reached either of these points, it is time to replace that activity with one of these kine activities:
- Try sound good reading an article in Hawaiʻian. Your OHA newspaper is the best one because it has translation too, just in case you want to be daring with your guesses on certain words or phrases.
- Try actually sing Hawaiʻian music that is sung in Hawaiʻian
- Try replace the phrase da kine with the phrase ka mea. They mean the same thing, but we are trying to revive our language and usage, so best if we get started!
- Try greet people by the actual daypart in Hawaiʻian
- Aloha Kakahiaka - Good Early Morning
- Aloha Awakea - Good Late Morning
- Aloha Auinala - Good afternoon
- Aloha Ahiahi - Good night
