"My grandpa is in the bedroom."
Translation:Aia koʻu tūtū kāne i ka lumi moe.
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I am a complete beginner... but please intoduce variety. Houses have more rooms tha just a bedroom i kitchen. Whats the word for bathroom, for instance? :) Also, with all the repetition in this section don't miss the opportunity to practice other words - how about uncle, mother, etc - not just grandpa in the bedroom.
I used 'ma' instead of 'i' and got an error message. If, according to kelii, 'ma is used for 'in' and 'i' for 'to' then my answer was correct.
Last I checked, there isn't a "t" in the Hawaiian alphabet: A, E, I, O, U, H, K, L, M, N, P, W ʻ. No T! Why is kūkū is spelled with a "t"? I get that the two sounds are interchangeable in Hawaiian, but it still confuses me why they'd use a letter that isn't even in the Hawaiian alphabet!
Yes, from what I've read certain dialects seem favor a t pronunciation over k. It's very interesting that certain words are only written with a t, though. Are there any other Hawai‘ian words that are only written with a t?
I just ran an experiment on the 'i'/"ma" interchangeability issue. The first time (exactly the same, and immediately previous to this one) I used "i" and that was fine, so this time i went with "ma" and got it wrong. There is no movement involved, so they should be interchangeable, right? So now I'm no longer sure. Sigh.