In this post, we’ll continue learning basic sentence structures to express likes and dislikes in Chamorro. In the last post we covered how to express likes for pronouns, with sentences such as “I like you.” In this post we’ll learn how to express likes for nouns in sentences such as “I like coffee”; “I like the coffee”; “The woman likes coffee”; and “Juan likes coffee.” We continue using the word ya- and pairing it with possessive pronouns to make these statements, with plenty of sentence drills to help us practice the patterns. If you need a review on the word ya-, please see my post on Expressing Likes and Dislikes in Chamorro, pt. 1. Happy studying!

In this post, we’ll be starting a mini-series on how to express our likes and dislikes in Chamorro. To keep things at the beginner level, we will focus on expressing likes and dislikes for pronouns or nouns. This post will focus on how to express likes for pronouns (ie.: you, me, them, etc.), and we’ll go over some basic sentence structures to say things like “I like you”; “She doesn’t like you”; “The woman likes him”; or “Juan likes you.” To do this, we’ll learn about the word ya- in Chamorro and how to use it with possessive pronouns. This is part 1 of expressing likes and dislikes in Chamorro at the beginner level, so there will be more to follow. Happy studying!