"Ke ʻō a me ke puna"

Translation: The fork and the spoon

[Joaquim38741]

Why do these words use "ke" rather than "ka"

[Auhaele]

If I remember correctly: both means "the" and sort of works the same way en/ett does in Swedish. Words that begin with K, A, E, O USUALLY begins with ke whilst the rest USUALLY with ka

[GaryBisaga]

As far as I know, words that start with KAEO always take ke, while the other usually take ka but can take ke, especially with extended meanings of existing words. See:

https://hawaiian-grammar.org/current/#h.srkt3km4akmi

[kelii....]

These are exceptions

[MacKinzieRob]

Well a lot of older folks do get upset when people call them kapuna :-)