Category: Chamorro Lessons: Beginner

Saying “My, Yours, Hers” – An Introduction to Possessive Pronouns in Chamorro

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This lesson is part of the Beginner Chamorro learning path.

In this lesson, we’ll start using possessive pronouns in Chamorro — the little words that show something belongs to someone. Using them can change how certain words sound, so we’ll spend time seeing, hearing, and practicing those sound shifts together.

In my experience, many resources skip over these changes, but they are important for developing our comprehension and speaking. So this post gives you plenty of examples, grouped by pattern, to help you get a clear feel for how these sounds work. You’ll find practice drills with Chamorro audio and English translations for every sentence. Happy studying!

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How to Say “The Woman Danced” in Chamorro – Using Nouns as the Subject with Intransitive Verbs

On By Schyuler LujanIn Chamorro Lessons: Beginner3 Comments

This lesson is part of the Beginner Chamorro learning path.

In this lesson, we’ll learn how to make simple action sentences where a person is the one doing the action — sentences like “The woman ate” or “The child will run.” Up to now, we’ve only used pronouns as our subjects so you could focus on word order and how the verbs change. Now we’ll add real people into our sentences to make them feel more natural and varied. You’ll practice building past, present, and future sentences, and every Chamorro example comes with audio so you can hear how it all sounds. Happy studying!

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How to Say “The Woman Drank the Coffee” in Chamorro – Using Nouns as the Subject With Transitive Verbs

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This lesson is part of the Beginner Chamorro learning path.

In this lesson, we’ll look at how to show who is doing an action in a sentence. Up to now, we’ve mostly used pronouns like he, she, and it so you could focus on learning verbs and word order. Now we’ll put that knowledge to use with sentences like “The woman drank the coffee,” where the subject—the one doing the action—is a noun. We’ll build sentences in the past, present, and future so you can practice the patterns for including a person as the doer of the action. Every Chamorro example comes with audio so you can hear how it all sounds. Happy studying!

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How to Say “What Do You Like?” in Chamorro – Asking About Likes and Dislikes

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This lesson is part of the Beginner Chamorro learning path.

To wrap up this beginner series on expressing likes and dislikes in Chamorro, we’re going to look at how to ask a few more kinds of questions about what we like. You’ll get practice using question words like håfa (what), månu (which), and håfa na (why) to ask things such as “What do you like?”, “Which do you like?”, and “Why do you like it?”

This lesson includes simple sentence drills, English translations, and audio so you can hear how everything sounds in Chamorro. Happy studying!

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How to Say “I Like This” in Chamorro – Using “This” and “That”

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This lesson is part of the Beginner Chamorro learning path.

In this lesson, you continue learning how to talk about likes and dislikes in Chamorro by saying things like “I like this,” “I like these,” and “I like this coffee.” If you’d like a refresher, you can review Part 1 of this series. Happy studying!

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