"The people want."
Translation:Makemake nā poʻe.
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Can you use na and ka interchangeably with po'e? One example used na po'e, the next used ka po'e. Both seem to mean "the people". Is there any difference?
Yes! We included the "ka poʻe" and "nā poʻe" examples specifically because both can mean "people", in general.
It looks like poʻe means people as plural, or "group of" as singular, like in: Ka poʻe wahine, the women, poʻe hale, houses. http://wehewehe.org/gsdl2.85/cgi-bin/hdict?e=q-11000-00---off-0hdict--00-1----0-10-0---0---0direct-10-ED--4-------0-1lpm--11-haw-Zz-1---Zz-1-home-po%ca%bbe--00-3-1-00-0--4----0-0-11-00-0utfZz-8-00&a=d&d=D18151
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I'm still learning myself, but according to one text, there are three types of plurals. 1). Sometimes, ke/ka can be construed as plural (ka poʻe); 2). Nā in front of a noun makes it plural but only if we want "the" in the phrase (replacing ka/ke); 3). mau makes a noun plural, such as he mau kānaka but notice that in this example the addition of "he" and the change to kanaka./people, persons. Mau is also used with determiners (kēia, kēlā, etc.).
