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  1. ʻO kēia ka lā hānau o Mary Kawena Pukui!
    Today is the birthday of Mary Kawena Pukui, b. April 20, 1895 #olelonoeau #maryKawenaPukui #adage #wiseSaying #hawaiianLanguage #olelo #OleloHawaii

    Excerpt From
    ‘Ōlelo No‘eau
    Mary Kawena Pukui & Dietrich Varez
    books.apple.com/us/book/%C5%8D
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  2. We all learn the word “kahakō” meaning “macron,” the bar over the long vowel (as in its own final letter). But it also means “steep, sheer” as in this ʻŌlelo Nōʻeau:

    “1527  Ka pali kahakō lele a koa‘e.

    Sheer cliff reached only by the tropic bird.

    A tall, inaccessible cliff.”

    #olelonoeau #maryKawenaPukui #adage #wiseSaying #hawaiianLanguage #olelo #OleloHawaii #cliff #sheer #steep

  3. In the Fall 2024 Audubon magazine is an interesting article about a bird researcher who’s cataloging and photographing specimens of Hawaiian birds which are in non-Hawaiian museums. The reference to an ʻōlelo noʻeau caught my eye. Interesting! #olelonoeau #maryKawenaPukui #adage #wiseSaying #hawaiianLanguage #olelo #OleloHawaii #audubon #extinction

  4. #HawaiianPublicRadio didn’t post today’s #hawaiianWordOfTheDay so instead of sharing that, I’ll share my new favorite ʻŌlelo Noʻeau!

    I kāhi ‘e no ke kumu mokihana, paoa ‘e no ‘one‘i i ke ‘ala.
    Although the mokihana tree is at a distance, its fragrance reaches here.
    Although a person is far away, the tales of his good deeds come to us.

    #olelonoeau #maryKawenaPukui #adage #wiseSaying #hawaiianLanguage #olelo #OleloHawaii #reputation #mokihana #1177

  5. I was a little worried that I couldnʻt remember where I learned "flying buoy" for "poelele" and that maybe I had made it up??? He haumāna wale nō au! (Iʻm just a student!!!) but Māmaka Kaiao agrees:
    #olelo #ŌleloHawaiʻi #buoy #satellite #mamakaKaiao

  6. ʻŌlelo Noʻeau number 2024: Luahine moe nonō. (Old woman who sleeps and snores.) Pele, who is said to sleep in lava beds. #olelonoeau #maryKawenaPukui #adage #wiseSaying #hawaiianLanguage #olelo #oleloHawaii #lava #volcano

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. This Hawaiian word is weirdly similar to an English equivalent, by coincidence (I assume? I could be wrong!! But Wehewehe usually says “Eng” if it’s a borrowed word):
    like (pronounced “lee-kay”) - equal, similar or LIKE #hawaiianLanguage #olelo #oleloHawaii #LearnHawaiian #language

  14. About a month ago I posted that I had 1,390 Hawaiian words in Drops, but now it says 1,389. I am now making backwards progress LOL. What I think happened is that I flagged a word with an incorrect spelling, and so it automatically removed that word from my list? #drops #OleloHawaii #LearnHawaiian #olelo #hawaii
    #languageDrops

  15. Yesterday I updated my #introduction with my pronouns, & a little screed about how Hawaiian lacks the gendered badness of English pronouns. But Hawaiian pronouns also have some positive good features that English doesn’t have! Did you know that in Hawaiian there are two shades of “we”? One that includes the person you’re talking to (kākou) and one that specifically excludes them (mākou). Now THAT is useful information!!! #ŌleloHawaiʻi #ʻōlelo #hawaiʻi #OleloHawaii #LearnHawaiian #olelo