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soccer
(pōwāwae link) Pōwāwae. ~ ball. Kinipōpō pōwāwae.
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pōwāwae
[MK]1 n Soccer. Sh. Kinipōpō + wāwae. Kinipōpō pōwāwae. Soccer ball.
I answered "The football game is yesterday" simply because there was no "Ua" to indicate past tense. I know "nehinēi" is inherently past tense, but if DL is requiring a past tense in the English shouldn't there be the regular indicator for that in the Hawaiian? And of course they counted mine wrong - but I disagree that I did not translate what they gave - I just didn't interpret it (there's a significant difference) to correct English. That's not the language I'm trying to learn.
Nor can I - but I was looking for (and not finding) something in the Hawaiian sentence to indicate past tense. Should have just assumed that my kumu was a hard nose and "nehinēi" is, by definition, in the past. So I'm guessing that "Ua" is not necessary if there is another tense indicator (and I hate that we have to guess at convention - I'm so not confident at guessing).
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Hawaiian is very dependent on context. The gut feeling that you had, learn to recognize it and make it your friend.