"ʻO ia koʻu tūtū wahine."

[jackheywood]

Why not "She is my grandma"?

[dirtynho]

exactly what I was thinking. no determinative here

[kananileialoha]

I think "She is my grandma" is actually more accurate than "That is my grandma." "He ko'u tutu wahine kela" seems to me like a better way to say "that" is my grandma.

[Bethany281730]

That doesn't make sense. Why is "ia" included? I thought that that was a she/he pronoun.

[kelii....]

The two halves of the equational sentence were just swapped. The word ia is actually ‘O ia (‘o ia), just at the front instead.

[Tupu466804]

THIS NEEDS TO BE REVISED BY THE BOARD OF HAWAIIAN LANGUAGE SPEAKERS