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"Greet all your friends when you enter the house."
Translation:E aloha i nā hoa a pau ke komo i ka hale.
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Hi — this fix isn’t through yet. Day 3. I appreciate this is volunteer and all the work you do.
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For me this is a multiple choice question, and the other 2 choices the same except that they substitute hoa for hoe wa'a or 'ani pepa, so obviously wrong. In yours, since kou hoa aloha is not a proper name, it would use i kou hoa aloha instead of iā kou hoa aloha.
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Because the Plural is needed here, I think. However, my version with mau wasn't accepted too. E aloha i kou mau hoa a pau ke komo i ka hale - not right.
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For other sentences in this practice block the form is “i ke komo” but in this example the “i” is omitted. I do not understand.
I think if you look closely at the sentences in this section that have the word "komo", you will see that it is always "ke komo" and not "i ke komo".
The "ke" is special here. It's not the usual "ke" or "ka" that just marks a noun-type word. The "ke" here means "when/whenever". So, "ke komo" as it's used here means "when/whenever (you) enter".
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Excellent explanation — mahalo. So what would the other version “i ke komo” translate as?