"The people want."

Translation: Makemake ka poʻe.

[AlanAbonyi]

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?

[Maui_Bartlett]

Yes! We included the "ka poʻe" and "nā poʻe" examples specifically because both can mean "people", in general.

[rebotante]

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

[AlanAbonyi]

No answers yet. I’m not sure how to get someone from the Hawaiian team to respond.

[rebotante]

I updated my comment :) check it.

[DABurnside]

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.).

[Laurel675502]

Is this supposed to be a phrase and not a sentence?

[krizzle]

I have the same question as AlanAbonyi