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"ʻO ka makahiki ʻelua kaukani ʻumikūmāiwa kēia."
Translation:It's the year two thousand nineteen.
August 22, 2019
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Aloha e @einewhall , ʻae they are both correct translations. The distinction is in the emphasis placed, when comparing the two sentences. Your example, with " ʻO kēia" in the front, would actually emphasize that you are pointing out this year / this time right now in particular as being 2019.
Contrast the following sentences in English:
-Itʻs the year 2019.
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IT IS the year 2019.
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It is this year , that is the year 2019.
Notice how in English we require a lot of filler words or intonation to create emphasis in this particular sentence pattern? Hawaiian can create that same affect by carefully reordering phrases within a sentence in this particular case.
I hope this helps!! But yes, both should be accepted as answers.