Counting in Samoan Learning to Count in Samoan: A Simple Guide Counting in Samoan is easy and fun! Once you learn the basic numbers, you can count anything. Let’s start with the numbers from 1 to 10 and build from there. Numbers 1 to 10 in Samoan Here are the numbers from one to ten:…
Another great phrase to help learn Samoan pronouns is the phrase O fea o (fill in the blank) and then i ai Which basically means “where is she at, where are we at, where are they at?”. But it depends on the pronoun you’re using. O fea…a lot of times you’ll just hear fea which…
When the tense of a statement is understood, the tense marker is often omitted. The command tense marker is often omitted because the tense is almost always understood as immediate, urgent, and present. Sometimes you only need a verb/action word like aumai, ave, salapu, alu, alu ese, fa’avave, fa’avave mai, fa’avave mai lau tuai. You…
The Samoan language identifies subjects with the particle “O” when there is no action or location given to the noun. The “O” is a noun tense marker that indicates: The “O” noun tense marker is used in complete subject phrases. If you were to ask someone to identify a person, place, thing, or idea in…
Download this worksheet First choose a noun and determine whether it is an a-class or o-class possession. Let’s use penitala or pencil. If there’s no letter in the first column then it’s plural and specific set of penitala. If there’s an l, then it’s singular and specific penitala. If we use “s” then we’re saying…
