"He tita ʻeleu kona kaikuahine."

Translation: His sister is an energetic sister.

[israellai]

Hawaiian suddenly grows a new consonant?

[KiUlv]

There are a few words commonly used (slang) that include non-Hawaiian letters, such as Tita and paisi ha'awe (backpack) (with kahako above the first a in each word- I'm having a difficult time with my font today)

[kelii....]

I would not say that they are non-Hawaiian because prior to contact, the sounds T and R were in regular use. In fact, T is still part of the language as heard on Kaua'i and Ni'ihau. T is interchangeable with K.

[3CelticVikings]

That is interesting info Kelii... Thank you for your insight!

[Mak511906]

No no no! That cannot be a correct translation. The English phrasing is redundant. What about "He wahine ʻeleu kona kaikuahine"? - "An energetic woman, his sister!" would at least be a more common phrase. So many of the sentences in this lesson set are confusing because the English sentences assigned to them make little sense.

[einewhall]

I completely agree. It should be "His sister is energetic." If the word "sister" is properly used twice in Hawaiian, that doesn't mean it is properly used twice in English.

[kelii....]

I think they are purposefully using both ways to say sister here to show the two different words, and trying to make it obvious with the slightly stilted English translation.

[deactivated user]

I suppose rewriting the prompt in English could have been "His sister is an energetic one," but I am not sure if there is an adequate Hawaiian translation for that.

[MacKinzieRob]

If you think the translation is wrong, you should hit the down arrow at the top of this page under DL's translation. So far there are 7 down arrows for this one

[RonRGB]

(link) http://wehewehe.org/gsdl2.85/cgi-bin/hdict?a=q&r=1&hs=1&m=-1&o=-1&qto=4&e=q-11000-00---off-0hdict--00-1----0-10-0---0---0direct-10-ED--4--textpukuielbert%252ctextmamaka-----0-1l--11-en-Zz-1---Zz-1-home-sister--00-3-1-00-0--4----0-0-11-00-0utfZz-8-00&q=sister&fqv=textpukuielbert%252ctextmamaka&af=1&fqf=ED

. Sibling. Kaikuaʻana, kaikuʻana (older of a female); kaikaina (younger of a female); kaikuahine (of a male);

kika, tita (slang). ...