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Hawaiian is a predominantly verb–subject–object language. However, word order is flexible, and the emphatic word can be placed first in the sentence. [1]: p28 Hawaiian largely avoids subordinate clauses, [1]: p.27 and often uses a possessive construction instead.
Hookipa Beach, surfing on Maui, Hawaii. Like many locations on the Maui and Oahu North Shore, Ho'okipa Beach is occasionally a tourist attraction in the winter time because of spectacularly large surf. In the afternoon on 15 December 2004, for example, tourists visited the beach to see waves as large as 30 feet (9.1 m) pound the shore ...
E ʻī mai ana iaʻu And thus it said to me Hui: Chorus: E ʻī mai ana ʻī mai ana And thus it said, thus it said to me Aia Keʻala i ka nahele Keala has gone to the woodland Kahi i walea ai And while on her downy bed of Palai I ka ʻolu o ia uka She inhales the perfume of the flowers A he nani ʻiʻo nō ia pua
One of the main focuses of Hawaiian-medium schools is to teach the form and structure of the Hawaiian language by modeling sentences as a "pepeke", meaning squid in Hawaiian. [66] In this case the pepeke is a metaphor that features the body of a squid with the three essential parts: the poʻo (head), the ʻawe (tentacles) and the piko (where ...
Orangutans are arboreal, meaning they primarily live in the trees. There are three sub-species of orangutans, including the Bornean orangutan, the Sumatran orangutan, and the Tapanuli orangutan ...
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker is renaming Lake Michigan to “Lake Illinois," poking fun at President Donald Trump’s recent executive order where he changed the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America.
The former king of Kou (塙王), known also as Chou (張), has ruled his country for fifty years and has tried his best to improve the state of Kou, but feels that he will never be able to bring Kou the prosperity seen by the neighbouring kingdoms of Sou and En, whose rulers have ruled for six hundred and five hundred years respectively.
Beyond being a fun little treat, buying these cookies also does some good in the world, as Sweet Loren’s is also teaming up with the Barbie Dream Gap Project — an initiative that provides ...