"The party is today."
Translation:Aia ka pāʻina i kēia lā.
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Shouldn't it be "pā'ani"? I can't find "pā'ina" in the Hawaiian dictionary. Mahalo.
Thank you for asking the question. I found pā'ina in the wehewehe.org dictionary listed as small dinner parties. Whew.
"Pā'ina" is what they always have in the section with photos of large gatherings in Midweek. And it's in the first two dictionaries I checked, but to my surprise, as "small party with dinner"! Later when asked to translate "He pā'ina nui kēlā" to English I wrote "That is a big small dinner party!" For some reason, it was not accepted. :-)
Interesting. DL accepted the answer I typed when there was a spelling error. However, if I spelled the word correctly, I found the answer was not accepted.
Pāani was rejected. Pāana was accepted, but marked as a spelling error.
Interesting.
I started to write the correct answer, but remembered (I thought) just in time to change it to "'O kēia lā ka pāʻina." Not "Another correct answer"?
From the Hawaiian dictionary definition for "party":
- Festivity. Hoʻolauleʻa (large); pāʻina (dinner or supper), ʻaha inu (drinking).
Pāʻina is in there, you have to use their provided diacritical marks, though.
