Basic Descriptions Part 4: How to Describe Nouns With Adjectives, pt. 2 – “Tired Student”

In this post, we will learn a different way of describing nouns. In previous posts we reviewed how to make sentences like “The student is tired.” Now we will review how we can use the article na to make phrases like “tired student” or “happy child.” And then we will learn how to use these types of phrases in complete sentences to describe ourselves or the world around us, such as in sentences like “I am a tired student.” Happy studying!

Basic Descriptions Part 8: How to Combine Sentences in Chamorro With Kao, Ti, or Sa’

To end our series of notes on creating basic descriptive sentences in Chamorro, we are going to learn how to start combining our sentences together to become more comfortable with expressing longer thoughts. We will be using the question marker kao, the negative marker ti, and sa’ (because). Happy studying!

Basic Descriptions Part 3: Describing Nouns in Chamorro – “The woman is tall”

Now it’s time to create more complex descriptions by describing nouns with adjectives, so we can say things like “The child is tired” or “The woman is tall.” We can also describe nouns with other nouns with sentences like “The man is a teacher” or “The teacher is a singer.” To make these types of sentences in Chamorro, we need to understand how the word order differs from English. We will also learn the article i and its accompanying vowel harmony rules, which dictate how sounds change to make our speech smoother. Happy studying!

Basic Descriptions Part 7: Combining Thoughts in Chamorro With Because – “I’m tired because I’m a student”

At the beginning of our learning, we can be focused on a lot of small sentences. Up until now these are the sentences we’ve learned how to make, sentences like “I am tired”; “They are students”; “We are tired students.” Now we are going to start making our thoughts a little longer by linking these short sentences with the word “because.” So instead of many small, disconnected thoughts we can start to smooth out our speech with sentences like “I am tired because I am a student.” In this post we will learn about the word sa’ in Chamorro and how to use it. Happy studying!

Basic Descriptions Part 5: How to Make Negative Sentences in Chamorro – “I am not hungry.”

All of my posts have focused on making descriptions in the positive, such as “I am hungry” or “The woman is a singer.” In this post, we’ll learn how to make these same statements, but in the negative, such as “I am not hungry” or “The woman is not a singer.” To create these sentences, we’ll be learning abou the negative marker ti. Happy studying!

Basic Descriptions Part 6: How to Make Questions in Chamorro – “Are you hungry?”

In this post we will learn how to turn any statement into a question. We can turn sentences like “You are tired” into a question like “Are you tired?” Statements such as “They are teachers” can become “Are they teachers?” To do this in Chamorro, we will learn about the question word kao and how to use it. Happy studying!