Friday, June 12, 2009

Palåbran 06/12/09: Ga'-

Ga'-: (marker) Animal classifier, pet.

Note: Chamorro makes use of several different markers/classifiers when constructing possessives, I'll try to get a lesson on this posted.

Uses:

"Kao ga'-mu ga'lågu enao?" = "Is that your dog?"
"Dumånkolo i ga'-hu babui esta." = "My pig has already gotten big."
"Gof metgot i ga'-ña karabao." = "His water bufalo is very strong."

2 comments:

  1. Do we not get words for the weekend? Aaron, thanks again for providing this website. Are you from Tamuning? My dad has relatives (Mantanane) who live there.
    Pues Esta!
    Si Rosalia

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  2. I used to post words on the weekend, but it just didn't work out too well for me :-(

    I'm actually from Ylig, Yona, but we are the same Matanane's from Tamuning.

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