🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation: 01:36 📖 In Hawaiian, "this" is "keia," "that" near the listener is "kena," and "that" far from both speaker and listener is "ke la." 03:44 🗣 Demonstratives change based on the location of the object relative to the speaker and the listener. 09:38 📚 To make demonstratives plural, add "mo" after them. For example, "these books" becomes "keia mau puke." 14:10 🙋 Demonstratives can also be stand-alone pronouns. The singular demonstrative remains the same for both determiner and pronoun forms. 16:05 🤔 In plural demonstratives, like "these," only the determiner form changes (e.g., "keia mau" for "these books"). The pronoun form remains singular (e.g., "I read these"). Made with HARPA AI
In Portuguese we use "este", "esse" and "aquele" (and the variants for female and plural (f and m. So, we have 12 diferent words) in the same way the Hawaiian.
Mahalo Nui for your excellent teaching!!! I am also a linguist and a language teacher, and so I see very clearly how you well you explain the grammar of the language!! I have one question. To say "these women are teachers", would it be "He mau kumu keia mau wahine" ? In this case, may I repeat the plural word/ morpheme "mau" within one sentence? Or do I want to omit the second reduce the redundancy?
I think it might depend on the sentences, but I would think in most cases, you would use that third-person pronoun 'o ia. Do you have an example sentence you were thinking of that uses "it"?
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🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation:
01:36 📖 In Hawaiian, "this" is "keia," "that" near the listener is "kena," and "that" far from both speaker and listener is "ke la."
03:44 🗣 Demonstratives change based on the location of the object relative to the speaker and the listener.
09:38 📚 To make demonstratives plural, add "mo" after them. For example, "these books" becomes "keia mau puke."
14:10 🙋 Demonstratives can also be stand-alone pronouns. The singular demonstrative remains the same for both determiner and pronoun forms.
16:05 🤔 In plural demonstratives, like "these," only the determiner form changes (e.g., "keia mau" for "these books"). The pronoun form remains singular (e.g., "I read these").
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Makes you wonder why we don’t use this depth of context in English. Mahalo Nui!
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In Portuguese we use "este", "esse" and "aquele" (and the variants for female and plural (f and m. So, we have 12 diferent words) in the same way the Hawaiian.
Nice! Thank you :)
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Mahalo Nui for your excellent teaching!!! I am also a linguist and a language teacher, and so I see very clearly how you well you explain the grammar of the language!!
I have one question. To say "these women are teachers", would it be "He mau kumu keia mau wahine" ? In this case, may I repeat the plural word/ morpheme "mau" within one sentence? Or do I want to omit the second reduce the redundancy?
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is there any hawaiian word equivalent to "it"?
I think it might depend on the sentences, but I would think in most cases, you would use that third-person pronoun 'o ia.
Do you have an example sentence you were thinking of that uses "it"?
@@KeAlohaNoHawaii nothing there, it's just my curiosity