"Uʻi ka mahiʻai."

Translation: The farmer is handsome.

[DLwasbetter...]

How would you say ''The beautiful farmer'' ?

[DouglasJulien]

ka mahiʻai uʻi

[Beth362866]

Why not He u'i ka mahi'ai?

[KeesKiwi]

"he" is the word for "a" in hawaiian.

When you see an adjective at the head of a sentence, like u'i, it is actually being used as a verb, so it is more like "is pretty".

[wanderingpup]

Could one translate u‘i as lovely?

[kelii....]

Yes. There are quite a few words for beauty in Hawaiian as in English. We have beautiful, pretty, lovely. Hawaiian has u'i, nani, and nohea for starters.

[ConnorS1110]

When speaking how can one distinguish when "nohea" is being said vs. "No hea" since those two have drastically different meanings

[Mikeleokeao]

"good-looking" would be a better English translation than "beautiful", to apply more naturally to all genders

[Kaleionaona]

Maika'i is not only good, fine and well but also good-looking, handsome, beautiful etc.

[KarinLynn1]

Well exceot i teied that and it was wrong :(

[Walknbeauty09]

What if the farmer was a woman?

[kelii....]

Same actually.

[deactivated user]

isn't mahiʻai used for both farmer and farm?

The farmer has a farm - he mahiʻai ka mea mahiʻai

[EseGutier]

Im having truble with the word order what is the word order for o'leo hawai'i

[Ileina94]

u'i can mean many things, not only handsome.
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