Word Formation and Compounding

Hoʻoulu Hua ʻŌlelo

About this concept

Hawaiian creates new words through compounding: hale + kūʻai = hale kūʻai (store), wai + honua = waihona (repository). Reduplication adds intensity or plurality: nani → naninani (very beautiful).

In Settemila Lingue, this concept generates a practice deck of ~30 cards at level B2.

Examples

hale kūʻai (house + buy)store/shop

waihona (water + place)repository/archive

naninani (reduplicated)very beautiful

holoholona (holo reduplicated)animal (thing that runs)

Prerequisite

Stative Verbs (Adjectives)A1

More B2 concepts

Passive and Stative ConstructionsʻŌlelo Hoʻolauna Reported Speech and QuotationʻŌlelo Hoʻohālua Conditional SentencesInā a me Ke Directional ParticlesPepeke Painu Nominalization and Abstract ExpressionsʻŌlelo Noi

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