Instructions
- Study the vocabulary below. Also, use «ma» to mean “in/on/at” or anything similar.
- Translate the sentences from English to Hawaiian.
- Check your work: tap each sentence to see the answer.
- When you are all done with those translations, put everything down for a while and relax your brain. Even if it’s for a whole day, that’s fine.
- Then switch to “Hawaiian → English” and do translations from Hawaiian to English.
Most of all, enjoy what you do.
Nā Huaʻōlelo Hou ~ Vocabulary
The memeʻa content words you will need are here, followed by the papani (pronouns) and some special kaʻi to use.
Memeʻa content words
- bench, chair, seat
- noho
- bird
- manu
- car
- kaʻa
- child
- keiki
- church
- halepule
- class
- papa
- computer
- lolouila
- fish
- iʻa
- forest
- nahele
- friend
- hoaaloha, hoāloha
- house
- hale
- kitchen
- lumikuke
- ocean
- moana
- paper
- pepa
- pen
- peni
- plate
- pā (ke pā)
- road, street
- alanui
- school
- kula
- store
- halekūʻai
- student
- haumāna
- table
- pākaukau (ke pākaukau)
- teacher
- kumu
- tree
- kumulāʻau
Papani (pronouns)
- I
- au
- you
- ʻoe
- he/she
- ʻoia
Some special kaʻi to use
- the aforementioned
- ia
- six (quantity)
- ʻeono
- one (quantity)
- hoʻokahi
- two (quantity)
- ʻelua
- eight (quantity)
- ʻewalu
Translate
ʻŌlelo Online Virtual Classroom · kumu Kaliko Beamer-Trapp · Practice revision 3 (September 2026) · This is a work in progress; feedback is welcome.