"Pāʻani wikiō ʻo Kēhau ma ka hale."

Translation: Kēhau plays video games at home.

[Nico838548]

Shouldnt "in the house" be correct as well?

[kelii....]

Possible.

[Toratra]

Same

[Pomaikaiui]

I thought ka hale=the house, ka home=the home

[TRAPS3]

Pay attention to the accents. D'accord mais avec le clavier hawaïen !

[TRAPS3]

Je ne sais faire ni le kahako ni l'okina avec un clavier AZERTY. If you teach me it will be fine !

[OttoLaari]

You cant type kahako nor okina with the french keyboard layout, it's called what it is for a reason. Just enable hawaiian keyboard layout (on W10) and use iirc alt+shift to easily alternate between kblayouts.

[DavidDeLan394537]

How do I enable the Hawaiian keyboard layout? I don't understand.

[OttoLaari]

Here's a neat pdf with pictured step by step instructions https://files.hawaii.gov/dbedt/op/gis/bgn/HowTo-Install_Hawaiian_Language_Windows10.pdf and for macos http://www.olelo.hawaii.edu/pub/mac_osx.pdf

[MacKinzieRob]

How would you say 'at home, in his basement, with no windows, for hours on end, without talking to anyone, and drinking mountain dew and eating twinkies? :-)

[kelii....]

... ma ka hale i ka ʻōpao me ka puka aniani ‘ole i nā hola he nui me ka ‘ōlelo ‘ole iā ha‘i e inu Mountain Dew ana a e ‘ai twinkies ana. Although I prefer Ho-Hos. Just saying.

[baokim1802]

Why is "video game" wrong?

[Eliza727459]

At the beginning of the sentence, the phrase is a verb, or action. So you need "play/playing" video.... It doesn't translate word for word. Some of the compound verbs - "play/game/toy of the video variety" is translated into English with separate phrases: noun - video game, verb -play video games. The actual words don't change so much, but the position in the sentence helps inform the meaning.

[Vrodopachys]

How do you translate this sentence literally?

[Eliza727459]

[Play video game] [Kaleo] [in the house]