#learnhawaiian — Public Fediverse posts
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…and here’s “dizzy” number #27 — yesterday’s Hulihua puzzle solution. “Pihoa” isn’t listed when looking up “dizzy” … but when you look up “pihoa,” the definition consists of the single word “dizzy” :blobcatupsidedown:
#Hulihua No. 1559, 2026-04-09
#hawaiianWordOfTheDay #dizzy #learnHawaiian #hawaiian -
Kīpuka == clearing in a lava flow where original vegetation grows.
#hawaiianWordOfTheDay #lavaFlow #volcano #lava #learnHawaiian #hawaiian -
A hui hou == see you later, bye, literally until we meet again
#hawaiianWordOfTheDay #bye #seeYouLater #soLong #learnHawaiian #hawaiian -
Lālea == Buoy, beacon; prominent object or landmark ashore to steer by. (And.)
#Hulihua No. 1458, 2025-12-29
#hawaiianWordOfTheDay #landmark #learnHawaiian #hawaiian
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Kinai == extinguish, as in putting out a fire
#Hulihua No. 1454, 2025-12-25
#hawaiianWordOfTheDay #extinguish #learnHawaiian #hawaiian -
Pēheu == soft, flabby
#Hulihua No. 1446, 2025-12-17
#hawaiianWordOfTheDay #(word) #learnHawaiian #hawaiian -
Niolo == upright, stately
#Hulihua No. 1441, 2025-12-12
#hawaiianWordOfTheDay #upright #stately #learnHawaiian #hawaiian -
ʻĪlio == dog
My perpetual Hawaiian word of the day calendar is kind of tattered, so I’m going to spend my Saturday seeing if there is a pattern for 3-D printing a display box to hold the pages.
#hawaiianWordOfTheDay #dog #LearnHawaiian #languageLearning #hawaiian -
E nānā i ka Mele Manaka ma ka ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi! #merriemonarch #merriemonarchdaswhy #hula #hulaislife #morningmanao #learnhawaiian #hawaiian #hawaiianlanguage #olelo #olelohawaii #livealoha #hilo
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I missed doing my daily #Hulihua yesterday! It was a long day of travel and when I arrived home at LAX, I thought the Los Angeles World Airport signs were fitting because:
lawa! == enough!
Lawa ka huakaʻi! (Enough traveling!)
#lax #lawa #enough #hwotd #hawaiianWordOfTheDay #OleloHawaii #LearnHawaiian #hawaiian #languageLearning
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I only just noticed that #Duolingo #Hawaiian course has two different lessons for the English sentence “You have a lot of classmates.” I am still figuring out when to use the k-less forms of possessives! #OleloHawaii #LearnHawaiian #olelo #hawaii
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My first time in uTalk finding a flub. The Hawaiian written text for this exercise is “Hiki iā ʻoe ke ʻoka i kaʻa hoʻolimalima noʻu?” but both voice tracks say, “E kaʻa hoʻolimalima noʻu, ke ʻoluʻolu” (more like, “a taxi for me, please” - either is fine I’m sure, but they don’t match! #uTalk
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In Hawaiian, I learned the word “maopopo” to mean “understand” so I would interpret “ʻaʻole au maopopo” as “I don’t understand.” I was a little surprised when in the uTalk app they also used the same world for “I don’t know.” #OleloHawaii #LearnHawaiian #olelo #hawaiian #uTalk
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OK #duolingo make up your mind!! Is the answer “i kahakai” or “ke kahakai”?! Spoiler alert, my kumu says “kahakai” never takes the definite article, so she would side with “i kahakai” or just plain “kahakai” #beach #OleloHawaii #LearnHawaiian #hawaiian #languageLearning
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He lā maikaʻi ma ka #duolingo ! (A good day on Duolingo!) #streak #LearnHawaiian #hawaiian #languageLearning
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Hawaiian word for the day— cauliflower! According to Drops, it is kāpiki pua! But— (1/3) #languageDrops #hwotd #hawaiianWordOfTheDay #OleloHawaii #LearnHawaiian #hawaiian #cauliflower
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Hawaiian word for the day— cauliflower! According to Drops, it is kāpiki pua! But— (1/3) #languageDrops #hwotd #hawaiianWordOfTheDay #OleloHawaii #LearnHawaiian #hawaiian #cauliflower
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Hawaiian word for the day— cauliflower! According to Drops, it is kāpiki pua! But— (1/3) #languageDrops #hwotd #hawaiianWordOfTheDay #OleloHawaii #LearnHawaiian #hawaiian #cauliflower
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Hawaiian word for the day— cauliflower! According to Drops, it is kāpiki pua! But— (1/3) #languageDrops #hwotd #hawaiianWordOfTheDay #OleloHawaii #LearnHawaiian #hawaiian #cauliflower
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Hawaiian word for the day— cauliflower! According to Drops, it is kāpiki pua! But— (1/3) #languageDrops #hwotd #hawaiianWordOfTheDay #OleloHawaii #LearnHawaiian #hawaiian #cauliflower
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In #Hawaiian class this week, we discussed this #oleloNoeau and one student said it’s like the English “Don’t count your chickens before they are hatched!” (Excerpt From ‘Ōlelo No‘eau Mary Kawena Pukui & Dietrich Varez) #hawaiianLanguage #olelo #oleloHawaii #LearnHawaiian #olelonoeau #maryKawenaPukui #adage #wiseSaying
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I ran across the term “copula” in a mathematical context the other day, but when I looked it up, the first meaning that appeared was the linguistic one, meaning: a linking word. For example, in English, “is.” I also learned that the term “zero copula” is used to describe a language that doesn’t use linking words. Five years ago I would’ve said wow, that’s a mind blowing concept! But today I said, oh, just like Hawaiian! #OleloHawaii #LearnHawaiian #hawaii #copula #zeroCopula #linguistics
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I used the term “ʻĀina Pākē” in my Hawaiian class and kumu said that is fine if you want to say “the land of the Chinese” but if you want to say “China” the name of the country is “Kina.” #languageDrops has taught me “ʻĀina Pākē” while #uTalk teaches “Kina” — l just lost another unit of trust in Drops :blobcatangery: #ŌleloHawaiʻi #ʻōlelo #hawaiʻi #OleloHawaii #LearnHawaiian #olelo #hawaii
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I used the term “ʻĀina Pākē” in my Hawaiian class and kumu said that is fine if you want to say “the land of the Chinese” but if you want to say “China” the name of the country is “Kina.” #languageDrops has taught me “ʻĀina Pākē” while #uTalk teaches “Kina” — l just lost another unit of trust in Drops :blobcatangery: #ŌleloHawaiʻi #ʻōlelo #hawaiʻi #OleloHawaii #LearnHawaiian #olelo #hawaii
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I used the term “ʻĀina Pākē” in my Hawaiian class and kumu said that is fine if you want to say “the land of the Chinese” but if you want to say “China” the name of the country is “Kina.” #languageDrops has taught me “ʻĀina Pākē” while #uTalk teaches “Kina” — l just lost another unit of trust in Drops :blobcatangery: #ŌleloHawaiʻi #ʻōlelo #hawaiʻi #OleloHawaii #LearnHawaiian #olelo #hawaii
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I used the term “ʻĀina Pākē” in my Hawaiian class and kumu said that is fine if you want to say “the land of the Chinese” but if you want to say “China” the name of the country is “Kina.” #languageDrops has taught me “ʻĀina Pākē” while #uTalk teaches “Kina” — l just lost another unit of trust in Drops :blobcatangery: #ŌleloHawaiʻi #ʻōlelo #hawaiʻi #OleloHawaii #LearnHawaiian #olelo #hawaii
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I used the term “ʻĀina Pākē” in my Hawaiian class and kumu said that is fine if you want to say “the land of the Chinese” but if you want to say “China” the name of the country is “Kina.” #languageDrops has taught me “ʻĀina Pākē” while #uTalk teaches “Kina” — l just lost another unit of trust in Drops :blobcatangery: #ŌleloHawaiʻi #ʻōlelo #hawaiʻi #OleloHawaii #LearnHawaiian #olelo #hawaii
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Hoʻomaka ka pule Mele Manaka ma ka lā kanakolukūmākahi o Malaki! Merrie Monarch week starts on March 31st! #merriemonarch #merriemonarchdaswhy #hula #hulaislife #morningmanao #learnhawaiian #hawaiian #hawaiianlanguage #olelo #olelohawaii #livealoha #hilo #duolingo #oscar
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I really like #uTalk the language learning program! In the “Countries” unit, I get to strengthen my #geography as well as learning #vocabulary! It’s a challenge for me — can YOU pick the image for ”Kuleke” (Turkey) from the assortment below? :blobcatwhat: Someday I will get it right!
#OleloHawaii #LearnHawaiian #hawaiian -
I stayed at a hostel earlier this week which had this whiteboard in the dining area with the greeting “welcome!!” in
various #languages. I was a little tempted to ask them to change “Aloha!!” to “Welina mai!!” which would be a better translation of #welcome. “Aloha” is more of a generic greeting. But, at least most people will recognize #aloha! #OleloHawaii #LearnHawaiian #hawaiian -
There are still a few bugs in the newly added #Duolingo #Hawaiian lessons. There’s at least three words which I keep getting marked wrong because I use the ʻokina and the response, incorrectly, expects an apostrophe: ke kumu lāʻau (the tree), ka hale ʻaina (the restaurant), and ka ʻalemanaka (the calendar). #OleloHawaii #LearnHawaiian #olelo #hawaii
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A student in my Hawaiian class called herself what I heard as “moe poʻo” which literally glosses as “sleep head” so I thought she was calling herself a “sleepyhead”— but no, the kumu praised her for being determined. I looked it up, surely enough “moepoʻo” means “determined”! Wehewehe.org says, “Lit., lay [the] head,” so my gloss was close, but I guess “laying the head” means putting your head down and powering through. #hwotd #OleloHawaii #LearnHawaiian #hawaiian #hawaii #determination
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ʻO Pepeluali ka Mahina ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi! February is Hawaiian Language Month! My kumu has been posting some educational snippets on social media for the occasion! #mahinaOleloHawaii #hawaiianLanguageMonth #LearnHawaiian
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Uihā!!! Loaʻa ka pane pololei iaʻu he ʻelua hoʻāʻo he ʻehā pō! I got the right answer in two tries for four days! :blobcatthumbsup: #hulihua #OleloHawaii #LearnHawaiian #olelo #hawaii
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Kāhāhā!! Duolingo has updated the Hawaiian course for the first time in three years! #happy #excited #duolingo #OleloHawaii #LearnHawaiian #olelo #hawaii #language
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Hawaiian word of the day: kala == forgive. Example sentence: “e kala mai” == “forgive me.” I will take it as an exercise today to translate: “Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude” - Martin Luther King Jr. #forgiveness #forgive #mlkjr #martinLutherKingJr #hwotd #hawaiianWordOfTheDay #OleloHawaii #LearnHawaiian #hawaiian
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My kumu has a new set of Hawaiian language inspiration cards! #hawaiianLanguage #olelo #oleloHawaii #LearnHawaiian
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My kumu has a new podcast episode on planning for the upcoming year! MAIAU == neat, careful, diligent #hawaiianLanguage #olelo #oleloHawaii #LearnHawaiian
#liveAloha #morningManao https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/morning-manao/id1588334735?i=1000640465621 -
In Hawaiian there’s also rules about whether to use “ka” or “ke” for “the,” and similarly there are exceptions. For example since “ʻeke” starts with the letter ʻokina, it ought to use “ka” but it actually uses “ke” instead. It would be nice if Drops also was able to help drill the correct article to use in Hawaiian! (3/3)
#drops #languageDrops
#hawaiianLanguage #LearnHawaiian #hawaiian #spanish #teabag -
In Hawaiian there’s also rules about whether to use “ka” or “ke” for “the,” and similarly there are exceptions. For example since “ʻeke” starts with the letter ʻokina, it ought to use “ka” but it actually uses “ke” instead. It would be nice if Drops also was able to help drill the correct article to use in Hawaiian! (3/3)
#drops #languageDrops
#hawaiianLanguage #LearnHawaiian #hawaiian #spanish #teabag -
In Hawaiian there’s also rules about whether to use “ka” or “ke” for “the,” and similarly there are exceptions. For example since “ʻeke” starts with the letter ʻokina, it ought to use “ka” but it actually uses “ke” instead. It would be nice if Drops also was able to help drill the correct article to use in Hawaiian! (3/3)
#drops #languageDrops
#hawaiianLanguage #LearnHawaiian #hawaiian #spanish #teabag -
In Hawaiian there’s also rules about whether to use “ka” or “ke” for “the,” and similarly there are exceptions. For example since “ʻeke” starts with the letter ʻokina, it ought to use “ka” but it actually uses “ke” instead. It would be nice if Drops also was able to help drill the correct article to use in Hawaiian! (3/3)
#drops #languageDrops
#hawaiianLanguage #LearnHawaiian #hawaiian #spanish #teabag -
In Hawaiian there’s also rules about whether to use “ka” or “ke” for “the,” and similarly there are exceptions. For example since “ʻeke” starts with the letter ʻokina, it ought to use “ka” but it actually uses “ke” instead. It would be nice if Drops also was able to help drill the correct article to use in Hawaiian! (3/3)
#drops #languageDrops
#hawaiianLanguage #LearnHawaiian #hawaiian #spanish #teabag -
In Spanish there are exceptions to the rule of thumb that if it ends in the letter “o”, it uses “el”, for example, it’s “la mano” not “el mano.”
#drops #languageDrops
#hawaiianLanguage #LearnHawaiian #hawaiian #spanish #hand