This lesson is part of the Beginner Chamorro learning path.

In this lesson, you’ll learn how to describe who you are in Chamorro using sentences like “I am a student,” “I am a teacher,” or “I am a woman.” These simple patterns help you talk about your profession, identity, and the roles you hold in everyday life—making them some of the most practical sentences to learn early on.This post includes example sentences in Chamorro, audio pronunciations, and a Quizlet deck for additional practice. Happy studying!

Contents

1. Describing Yourself With Nouns
2. How to Say “I am a student”
3. 💡Make Your Own Sentences
4. 📝 Study Resource: Quizlet Flashcards
5. ➡️ Keep Learning! Continue to the Next Lesson

Describing Yourself With Nouns

In this lesson, we’ll learn how to talk more about who we are in Chamorro. We can describe our profession, our roles in our family, or other identities that we occupy. This may include sentences like I am a teacher. I am a mother. I am a writer.

To do this, we will be referring to ourselves and others with Yu’ Type Pronouns and describing ourselves with Nouns (teacher, mother, writer, etc.).

In the next section, we’ll practice the core pattern.

How to Say “I am a student”

Making statements like “I am a student” actually follow the same pattern as the sentences from our previous lesson. But instead of an adjective (descriptive word) we’ll use a noun.

Remember that word order is the opposite of English: The Noun will come first, and then the Yu’ Type Pronoun will follow it.

We will use this sentence pattern:

Noun + Yu’ Type Pronoun

Now let’s go over some example sentences, following this basic structure:

Chamorro	English
Estudiante yu’.	I am a student.
Fafa’na’gue’ siha.	They (2) are teachers.
Amerikanu gue’.	He is American.
Chamoru hit.	We (2) are Chamorro. (inclusive)
Nåna hao.	You are a mother.
Enfetmera ham.	We (2) are nurses. (exclusive, female)
På’le hamyo.	They (2) are priests.
Palao’an yu’.	I am a woman.
Låhi hao.	You are a man.
Påtgon gue’.	He is a child.
Mediku siha.	They (2) are doctors.
Polisia hit.	We (2) are police officers (inclusive)
Fafalågu hamyo.	You (2) are runners.
Fafakmåta yu’.	I am a light sleeper.
Neni gue’.	She is a baby.

📝 A Reminder About 3+ people: The sentences above that use plural pronouns are in the form for only 2 people. To make these descriptions refer to 3+ people, the noun must be modified with the plural man- prefix. The plural man- prefix will be covered in another post.

💡Make Your Own Sentences

If you want to start making your own sentences with this structure, check out my word list for people in Chamorro to get you started!

📝 Study Resource: Quizlet Flashcards

And that’s it for Lesson 2! In this lesson we have learned how to talk more about who we are and who other people are in Chamorro, by using Yu’ Type Pronouns and Nouns.

For additional practice with the example sentences in this lesson, use this Quizlet Deck as a supplementary study tool for this lesson.

➡️ Keep Learning! Continue to the Next Lesson

When you are ready, continue to the next lesson to learn how to add more details to your descriptions and say things like I am a tired student.

How to Say “I Am a Tired Student” in Chamorro – Adding Details When Describing Yourself and Others