An abbreviated for way one person to tell or ask another person to do something is “ta” and then the action they want to do.Ta is the dual Samoan pronoun that means “we or us 2” You’ll hear ta in a lot of love songs because Ta is used when one person is speaking to…
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…
Here’s how to tell time in Samoan: When someone asks ‘Ua ta le fia? or It has struck the how many…basically what time is it The first sentece structure, let’s use the hour of 2. ‘Ua ta le lua, ‘Ua kuata le lua, ‘Ua afa le lua ‘Ua is the present tense marker, le means the, and lua…
Caption: If you put lē in front of any action or adjective, the action or adjective becomes negative. Siva….lē siva…. Ou te le siva Kea ….lē kea…. Ou te le kea Fiafia…lē fiafia…E le fiafia le teine Notice in front of the lē is a tense marker. Tense marker, lē, then the action or adjectives….
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 Matou Samoan Language class for Beginners will start January 23, 2024 and ends March 14, 2024. Classes meet every Tuesday and Thursday 7:00pm California, USA time. All classes are recorded, so if you’re unable to attend class you will receive a password to access the exclusive content (recorded classes & worksheets) for students. If…
Anytime you have action you’ll have a place or a location where the action happens If I walk to the store. The action is walk and it happens to the store. If Joseph exercises at home. The action is exercise and it happens at home if there’s a bird on the car. The birds action is existing or being present…
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…
