Basic Actions Part 15: How to Talk About What You Can and Can’t Do with Intransitive Verbs – “I can stay.”

In this last post our series focusing on beginner sentences with intransitive verbs, we will learn how to make basic “can” statements with our intransitive verbs. We will be using the word siña to make sentences like “I can stay” or “I can go to the store.” We’ll also be looking at how to make negative statements, like “I cannot stay” and turning our statements into questions like “Can I stay?” Before reading this post, it is recommended that you have familiarity with transitive verbs and how to conjugate them to make basic sentences. To review these topics, please see my post for an Introduction to Transitive Verbs & Affixes. And to see the whole series of lessons on basic sentences with intransitive verbs, see the full list here.

Basic Actions Part 14: Using Debidi With Intransitive Verbs to Talk About What We Must or Should Do – “I must stay”

Continuing with our basic action sentences, we will learn how to make must / should statements with our intransitive verbs. We will be able to say sentences like “I must sleep” or “You must/should rest” by putting the word debidi (also spelled as debi de) at the front of our future tense sentences.

Basic Actions Part 13: Making Commands in Chamorro With Intransitive Verbs – “Stay”

In this post, let’s learn how to make basic commands with intransitive verbs and learn to say things like, “Stay at the house” or “Walk to the store.” We’ll cover the basic verb conjugations needed and how to add time and location to our commands.

Basic Actions Part 12: Making Future Tense Sentences in Chamorro With Intransitive Verbs – “I will stay”

Here is another Chamorro grammar post, where we will look at how to make some future tense statements with intransitive verbs. We’ll cover the future tense markers, how to use intransitive verbs in this tense, and how to say sentences like “I will stay in Yigo” or “They will walk to the party.”

Basic Actions Part 11: Making Present Tense Sentences in Chamorro With Intransitive Verbs – “I am staying.”

In these notes we will go over how to make our sentences into the present tense with intransitive verbs, which includes a step-by-step approach to reduplication. We’ll cover how to say sentences like “I am staying in the village” or “They are walking to the beach.”

Basic Actions Part 10: Making Past Tense Sentences in Chamorro With Intransitive Verbs – “I stayed”

In this post we’ll learn how to start using intransitive verbs in basic, past tense sentences so we can say things like “I walked” or “They stayed.” We will be looking at some commonly used intransitive verbs and how to conjugate those verbs for past tense statements. As a note, this post will be making sentences that have only 1-2 subjects doing the action. Sentences that have 3 or more subjects will be covered in a separate post. This set of notes also includes a link to a Quizlet deck to help us learn the conjugations. Happy studying!