Category: Chamorro Lessons: Beginner

Lesson 21: Talking in Future Tense With Intransitive Verbs – “I will stay”

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Here is another Chamorro grammar post, where we will look at how to make some future tense statements with intransitive verbs. We’ll cover the future tense markers, how to use intransitive verbs in this tense, and how to say sentences like “I will stay in Yigo” or “They will walk to the party.” As always, this post includes sentence drills and audio narrations for the Chamorro by Jay Che’le. Happy studying!

Updated 10-19-2025: Revised language on “m” to “f” shifts for specific intransitive verbs.

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Lesson 19: Talking in Past Tense With Intransitive Verbs – “I stayed”

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In this post we’ll learn how to start using intransitive verbs in basic, past tense sentences so we can say things like “I walked” or “They stayed.” We will be looking at some commonly used intransitive verbs and how to conjugate those verbs for past tense statements. As a note, this post will be making sentences that have only 1-2 subjects doing the action. Sentences that have 3 or more subjects will be covered in a separate post. This set of notes also includes a link to a Quizlet deck to help us learn the conjugations. Happy studying!

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Lesson 18: Talking About Actions Without Objects – Introduction to Intransitive Verbs and Affixes in Chamorro

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Up until now, my notes about action sentences in Chamorro have focused on the use of transitive verbs, which are verbs that require their action to be transferred to an object. In this next series of posts on basic action sentences, we will learn how to start using intransitive verbs to make sentences like “I am jumping” or “We sat down.” This first post will be an introduction to the concept of affixes and intransitive verbs in Chamorro, including a beginner-level review of the different categories of intransitive verbs and the affixes they take. Happy studying!

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Lesson 17: Talking About What We Can and Can’t Do in Chamorro – “I can drink the coffee”

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In this post we’ll learn how to talk about what we can and cannot do, such as “I can drink the coffee” or “I cannot drink the milk.” To talk about what we can or cannot do in Chamorro, we must use the word siña in our sentences. We’ll learn about the word siña and some of the most basic statements we can make, then we will go through some practice sentences to talk about what we can do, cannot do, and to ask questions. Happy studying!

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