I love your channel. Please don't stop going on with these videos. I learn much more from you about grammar, than in my learning app... there are missing these explanations. Mahalo nui!
Mahalo for watching! I took a little break from making videos, but I recently posted a few new vocabulary videos. I hope you have a chance to check them out!
Aloha Laura. Thank you so much for creating this series. My father left the islands when he was 17 and we grew up disconnected from our Hawaiian culture. I danced the hula when I was younger and picked up a few Hawaiian words but speaking Hawaiian always seemed impossible. After watching several of your videos I have hope that I can and will learn Hawaiian. Being separated from ka ʻāina , nā kānaka a me ka moʻomeheu Hawaiʻi makes it difficult to feel connected to my ancestry. I don't mean to sound dramatic, I'm just so happy to learn and feel closer to home. I look forward to watching your videos and I appreciate the other resources you share. Mahalo nui loa!!!- Maika'aloa
When I would use Duolingo to learn Hawaiian it didn’t tell you when to use ka or ke and this helped me out so much I really appreciate you’re videos because they are very simple and straightforward. Mahalo nui!
Mahalo I am very grateful for your videos! So informative! I am refreshing my olelo hawaii from when I was small. I love the way you explain it all too. Aloha
🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation: 01:55 📚 Hawaiian has multiple definite articles for "the" depending on the singular noun's initial letter: "ka" for words starting with k, a, or o, and "ke" for others. 06:06 🧩 Some common Hawaiian words, like "kahuna" (priest), "kaleo" (song), and "kapo" (head), don't follow the "ka" and "ke" rule; they use "ka" despite starting with different letters. 07:12 📝 Hawaiian plural nouns typically don't change form like they do in English. To express "the books," replace "ka" with "na," making it "ke kapa" (the book) and "na kapa" (the books). 11:04 🤔 In Hawaiian, definite articles "ka" or "ke" are used even for abstract nouns like "love," and collective nouns like "coffee" or "bananas," where English often omits the definite article. Made with HARPA AI
I've been using duolingo to learn Hawaiian and I keep getting ke, ka and nā wrong, but the app doesn't tell you WHY it's wrong, or where the property place is for each. This video was very helpful. Thank you!
Aloooooha! Amazing video. I have a question though: do we have dual with definite articles like we had with personal pronouns?? That is, can we say: I want the two books?????
These words are written and pronounced differently: Ke ‘ala means "fragrance" and starts with a glottal stop, while ke ala means "the way/road" and starts with the vowel a (and hence also gets the article ke in Hawaiian).
I'm hawaiian and your a Great Kumu
Love the way you do the English teacher. It';s very good for constructive analysis.
Glad you like it! I wanted to include a section of the grammar terminology, but I wanted to make it fun :)
I love your channel. Please don't stop going on with these videos. I learn much more from you about grammar, than in my learning app... there are missing these explanations. Mahalo nui!
Mahalo for watching! I took a little break from making videos, but I recently posted a few new vocabulary videos. I hope you have a chance to check them out!
Agree! Your explanations are wonderful
Between this channel, and Duolingo. I feel confident I will know as much Hawaiian as I know Spanish and Latin, by the end of the year.
Your channel is such a gift.
Mahalo!
Aloha Laura. Thank you so much for creating this series. My father left the islands when he was 17 and we grew up disconnected from our Hawaiian culture. I danced the hula when I was younger and picked up a few Hawaiian words but speaking Hawaiian always seemed impossible. After watching several of your videos I have hope that I can and will learn Hawaiian. Being separated from ka ʻāina , nā kānaka a me ka
moʻomeheu Hawaiʻi makes it difficult to feel connected to my ancestry. I don't mean to sound dramatic, I'm just so happy to learn and feel closer to home. I look forward to watching your videos and I appreciate the other resources you share. Mahalo nui loa!!!- Maika'aloa
When I would use Duolingo to learn Hawaiian it didn’t tell you when to use ka or ke and this helped me out so much I really appreciate you’re videos because they are very simple and straightforward. Mahalo nui!
You have a simple way of teaching!
This is tough, but your tutorials are so helpful! I will keep practicing!❤
Mahalo I am very grateful for your videos! So informative! I am refreshing my olelo hawaii from when I was small. I love the way you explain it all too. Aloha
🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation:
01:55 📚 Hawaiian has multiple definite articles for "the" depending on the singular noun's initial letter: "ka" for words starting with k, a, or o, and "ke" for others.
06:06 🧩 Some common Hawaiian words, like "kahuna" (priest), "kaleo" (song), and "kapo" (head), don't follow the "ka" and "ke" rule; they use "ka" despite starting with different letters.
07:12 📝 Hawaiian plural nouns typically don't change form like they do in English. To express "the books," replace "ka" with "na," making it "ke kapa" (the book) and "na kapa" (the books).
11:04 🤔 In Hawaiian, definite articles "ka" or "ke" are used even for abstract nouns like "love," and collective nouns like "coffee" or "bananas," where English often omits the definite article.
Made with HARPA AI
You are wonderful, and your teaching is a bliss...
Oh, thank you for your kind words.
You explained this very well!!
This was so helpful!! Thank you!!!
so much better than duolingo! mahalo!!! 😊
I love this !
The Ke and Ka is going give me a hard time lol Love your videos❤
Great video!
thank you for this episode, this Hawaiian grammar subject has always befuddled me.
Amazing, mahalo ❤
do you have a video on syllable stress/enphasis? like WaiPAhu or WAIpahu. I often get stress wrong.
I've been using duolingo to learn Hawaiian and I keep getting ke, ka and nā wrong, but the app doesn't tell you WHY it's wrong, or where the property place is for each. This video was very helpful. Thank you!
Another exception: ka kaikamahine.
Aloooooha! Amazing video. I have a question though: do we have dual with definite articles like we had with personal pronouns?? That is, can we say: I want the two books?????
Is Ke 'ala used with all meanings of the word 'ala.....i.e when referring to a path?
These words are written and pronounced differently: Ke ‘ala means "fragrance" and starts with a glottal stop, while ke ala means "the way/road" and starts with the vowel a (and hence also gets the article ke in Hawaiian).
In short, no
@@litobeatz639 Oh? What counter example do you know?
You are so funny