"Mahalo, e ʻai!"

[CameronHonolulu]

"Thanks, eat!"
Is that proper hawaiian or does it have another meaning?

[KeelyLau]

that is proper hawaiian but i would say lets eat instead of eat

[PilimaiTraub]

Thanks, let's eat versus go eat, shouldnʻt it be hele ʻai for go eat, when we say E ʻai, as Hawaiians we are acknowledging everyone to eat, "go" is implied.

[Soy_Jaguar]

Would this be like Japanese "いただきます(Itadakimasu)！" Or more like Spanish "Buen Provecho"? I put thank you for the food as the translation and Duo marked it as incorrect, but gave me the answer as correct so I'm just a bit confused

[Soy_Jaguar]

I was also curious how either of those translate into Hawaiian

[KonradKond8]

What does "e" mean?

[SaliciaRem]

it's used like commanding action

[IgorRusski]

So people actually use it like this? It's not just a grammatical sentence, I hope..

[Throkir]

This seems to make no sense to me

[muna957449]

It dosent sound right