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- "The people want."
"The people want."
Translation:Makemake ka poʻe.
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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
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.).