In this post we will learn how to add locations to our action sentences so we can say things like “I drank the coffee at the restaurant” or “I am buying the mangoes at the market.” In Chamorro, locations are marked with either gi or giya, and we will learn how to use them in this post. Once you learn how to use gi and giya, you will be able to add them to any sentence in Chamorro. Happy studying!

Contents
Introduction to Adding Locations in Chamorro Practice Drills With Gi Practice Drills With Giya Example Sentences: “I drank the coffee at the restaurant” Wrapping Up: Practice on Quizlet! Keep Learning! Continue to the Next Lesson

Introduction to Adding Locations in Chamorro

When we want to add locations to our sentences in Chamorro, we need to use Location Markers. In this lesson, we will learn how to use two location markers: Gi and Giya:

• The Location Marker “Gi” is used for general locations, such as the store, the village, the house, or the school.

• The Location Marker “Giya” is used for proper place names, such as the names of cities, states, towns, villages, countries, or islands. We would use giya with places such as Seattle, Oregon, California or Canada.

Now that we have learned about these two Chamorro location markers, we will practice using them in the rest of the lesson.

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Practice Drills With Gi

Let’s practice with the Location Marker “Gi”. To use this location marker, we put it in front of the general location we want to add to our sentences. We will use this structure:

gi + general location

Vowel Harmony Rules Apply: When we use the Location Marker Gi, any word that follows gi must be transformed using vowel harmony rules.

Now let’s practice making some phrases with gi in the table below:

gi sengsong	at the village
gi gima’	at the house
gi gima’ Yu’os	at the Church
gi eskuela	at the school
gi fañochuyan	at the restaurant

Remember that vowel harmony rules apply when we use gi, which is why the words songsong, guma’, and guma’ Yu’os were transformed to sengsong, gima’, and gima’ Yu’os.

In the next section, we will practice using the Location Marker Giya.

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Practice Drills With Giya

Now let’s practice using the Location Marker Giya, which is used in front of proper place names. We will practice with this basic structure shown below:

giya + proper place name

To practice, let’s try out some basic drills in the table below:

giya Portland	in Portland
giya Seattle	in Seattle
giya Guåhan	in Guam
giya Inalåhan	in Inarahan
giya California	in California

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Example Sentences: “I drank the coffee at the restaurant”

Now let’s practice making complete sentences that have locations in them. We will be adding location to our basic past tense and present tense sentences. The word order we will follow is as follows:

Hu Type Pronoun + Transitive Verb + i + Object + [gi / giya] + Location

Now let’s practice with some example sentences in the table below. As a reminder, we will be making both past tense and present tense sentences:

Chamoru	Ingles
Hu gimen i kafe gi fañochuyan.	I drank the coffee at the restaurant.
Hu fåfåhan i nuebu na magågu gi tenda.	I am buying the new clothes at the store.
En fa’tinas i kek gi kusina.	You all made the cake in the kitchen.
En kåkånno’ i dangkolo’ na guihan gi gipot.	You are all eating the big fish at the party.
Ha bålle i satge gi kuatto.	He swept the floor in the room.
Ha li’e’ i gefpå’go na palao’an giya Talofofo.	She saw the beautiful woman in Talofofo.
Ta yúyute’ i sepbla gi sagan basula.	We are throwing away the leftovers in the garbage can.
Ta kákatga i basula gi kanton tåsi.	We are picking up the garbage at the beach.
Un go’te i mirenda gi sagan mubi.	You held the snacks at the movie.
Un dódopbla i gasgas na magågu gi mama’gasiyan.	You are folding the clean clothing at the laundromat.
Ma dingu yo’ giya Sedona.	They left me in Sedona.
Ma supok i tu’åya gi hanom.	They submerged the towel in the water.
In nisisita i techa gi lisåyu.	We need the prayer leader at the rosary.
In alíligao i yabi gi sanhiyong.	We are looking for the key outside.

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Wrapping Up: Practice on Quizlet!

In this lesson we learned how to add locations to our sentences in Chamorro by using the Location Markers Gi and Giya. We also practiced using these location markers in basic past tense and present tense sentences.

If you want additional practice with the examples in this lesson, use this Quizlet Flashcard Deck as a supplementary study tool.

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Keep Learning! Continue to the Next Lesson

And that concludes this lesson! When you are ready, click the link below to navigate to the next lesson, where you will learn how to give commands with transitive verbs:

Lesson 14: Giving Commands with Transitive Verbs – “Drink the coffee.”