Lesson 25: How To Talk About What You Want in Chamorro – “I want coffee”

In Chamorro, we can express our wants with the word malago‘. To get started using malago’, in this post we will go over how to express basic wants for things, such as “I want coffee” or “I want the coffee.” We will also use este, enao, and eyu to express wants like “I want this coffee.” Finally, we will also cover how to express all of those statements in the negative, such as “I don’t want coffee” and how to ask basic questions about what you want, such as “Do you want coffee?”, “What do you want?” or “Which do you want?”

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Lesson 24: Talking About What We Can and Can’t Do in Chamorro With Intransitive Verbs – “I can stay.”

In this last post our series focusing on beginner sentences with intransitive verbs, we will learn how to make basic “can” statements with our intransitive verbs. We will be using the word siña to make sentences like “I can stay” or “I can go to the store.” We’ll also be looking at how to make negative statements, like “I cannot stay” and turning our statements into questions like “Can I stay?” Before reading this post, it is recommended that you have familiarity with transitive verbs and how to conjugate them to make basic sentences. To review these topics, please see my post for an Introduction to Transitive Verbs & Affixes. And to see the whole series of lessons on basic sentences with intransitive verbs, see the full list here.

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Lesson 23: Talking About What We “Must” or “Should” Do With Intransitive Verbs  – “I must stay”

Continuing with our basic action sentences, we will learn how to make must / should statements with our intransitive verbs. We will be able to say sentences like “I must sleep” or “You must/should rest” by putting the word debidi (also spelled as debi de) at the front of our future tense sentences.

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Lesson 22: Giving Commands in Chamorro With Intransitive Verbs – “Stay”

In this post, let’s learn how to make basic commands with intransitive verbs and learn to say things like, “Stay at the house” or “Walk to the store.” We’ll cover the basic verb conjugations needed and how to add time and location to our commands.

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