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aloha everybody in today's vikio we will be talking about hawaiian beach words [Music] if you're new to my channel welcome ekomomai i'm tracy and i'm a hawaiian language singer songwriter teacher and most recently an author of my own autobiography of a book called life and race through the eyes of a brownish local girl tita a you can get it on my website if you want more details makoko i stay to the end and i'll tell you about some upcoming vikio that i'm working on so of course let's start with our first word and our first word is of course the beach kahakai all right now if we want to say the beach there's three words for the word the which is now how and when do you use either the words ka and ke mean the singular meaning one and the word na means plural means the plural meaning more than one so how do you know whether to use ka or k because ka or k both mean the singular so the rule is that the word ke goes with words that begin with the letters and ka goes with the words that begin with everything else and that would be [Music] new so you say well what do you mean tracy okay let me explain so the word kahakai well the word kahakai begins with a que so because our rule says words that begin with the letters it would be ke kahakai does that make sense pretty simple right why do you put it in that order que e well that's the way that i learned it when i was learning hawaiian and the word means the cloud so it's easier for me to remember okay make sense so let's go to our next word because we have kahakai which is the beach but we also have ocean water right so the ocean is kai kai now is kai ke kai or ka kai well again kai begins with k so it is ke kai [Music] all right now let's go to the word sand and sand is one so how would we say the sand well again one begins with o and next would be waves right because the waves are at kekai so how would we say the wave so wave is nalu and these are all general words right these are all general words so remember in hawaiian some words have more than one meaning so let's say we want to say the wave one wave wave is nalu so is it ka look at our rule right nalu begins with a new so it is now what if we want to say the waves plural the rule is na is plural more than one nalu the waves right because it's more than one wave na nalu what about this the grass my kay because there's grass and there's also sand at the beach right so grass is mauu and again sand was what now we have maou grass and we have sand but for plural we want to say yeah but that's a lot of grass and that's a lot of sand right so how do we say plural because that's a lot well normally the rule that i learned was if it's something that's uncountable meaning infinite you can't count it right you cannot count all the little pieces of grass and you cannot count all the little pieces of sand so it would be you would use the ca or the k for infinite words right like hair you cannot count individual pieces of hair so it would be here right and just like sand and grass usually you would say for grass so how about this one we want to say the rock you see the rock at the beach the rock so pohaku is the general term for rock so how do we say the rock is it ka pohaku or ke now how would we say the white rock because we see that the rock is white so kapohaku is the rock and what is white and that would go at the end now what if we want to say the rocks the rocks okay so you see here we have two rocks so we would say right for the rocks how would we say the white rocks what if we have plenty rocks what if we have lots of rocks tons of rocks okay so we have tons of rocks so would we say ka pohaku well that would mean one rock or would we say na pohaku for many rocks not pohaku right but remember those rocks seem uncountable meaning you cannot go and count every single one of those rocks so you would say ka pohaku which would mean the rocks infinite right because remember i told you when it's uncountable like hair it would you would use how would you know it's if in the context of what you're saying you're meaning one rock or a whole bunch of rocks infinite well it's going to be in the context of when you're talking if you look at these these pictures and i say you know that i'm talking about a multitude of rocks because you see all of those rocks does that make sense okay we see a hole so would that be ka puka or ke puka because puka is ho right because it begins with a p kapuka now what if we wanted to say for this puka right here the crab hole because it's a crab hole right so kapooka is whole and we wanted to say the whole of the crab it's the crabs whole right so we want to say the whole of the crab so we would say kapuka o and papa'i is a general word for crab so would it be ka papa'i or ke papa'i right according to our rule it would be ka papa'i so it would be kapuka o ka papai kapuka so we have a bunch of big rocks so what is rocks again rocks is pohaku so kapohaku or ke pohaku if we're talking about one specific rock right begins with a p so now what if we want to say the rocks right if we could count them all and it's countable now what if there's just too many rocks to count like that so it's it uh it's infinite we can't count it so what would it be maikai according to our rule it would be and again how would you know if i'm talking about one rock or i'm talking about a whole bunch of rocks that's infinite of course it's in the context you could see there that i'm looking at a whole bunch of rocks and i said let me know what your thoughts are your questions are in in below give me a thumbs up if you like this video let me know what you would like to learn next um so i have a couple vikio coming up i'm working on um a music video and i'm working on a beach protocol vq what is that that is what do we do when we go to the beach what is the hawaiian custom when we go to the beach so if that's something that you want to learn stay tuned for my upcoming video and until next time mahalo for joining me aloha [Music]