Take your Chamorro to the next level with guided lessons on sentence patterns and common expressions. If you’ve finished Beginner Chamorro and can already use basic sentences, these lessons will help you move toward more complex and nuanced speech. This section is currently in progress, and lessons will be published as soon as they are complete. Thank you for your patience and understanding!
TOTAL LESSONS: 18 (Last Updated: October 29, 2025)
Contents
- Intermediate Descriptions
- Intermediate Transitive Sentences
- Quick Reference Guides
- Other Action Sentences
- Existence
- Copyright Notice
Intermediate Descriptions
- Describing Nouns with Other Nouns – i trongkon niyok (the coconut tree)
- Describing Who Someone Is – i bisinu-ta as Totoro (our neighbor Totoro)
Intermediate Transitive Sentences
Start using transitive verbs at the intermediate level, using the indefinite man- prefix and the plural man- prefix.
- Introduction To Indefinite Objects – The Coffee versus A Coffee
- Past Tense – “I bought coffee”
- Doing Something For Someone – “I made you coffee”
Quick Reference Guides
Access quick summaries of specific word transformations with these reference guides. These present, in table format, word transformations by tense.
- Man- Prefix & Transitive Verbs – Using Man- Prefix with Transitive Verbs
- Future Tense – Verb Forms for Future Tense
- Commands – Verb Forms for Giving Commands
Other Action Sentences
Togetherness
- Togetherness in Chamorro – “We were together at the party”
Passive Voice
- Describing Actions Without a Subject – “The rock was dragged”
Speech Attribution
Next is a mini-series on speech attribution in Chamorro, which are structures for how Chamorros express things like “he said” or “they asked.” This is helpful for reading or listening to stories in Chamorro:
- Speech Attribution, pt. 1 – “Ilek”
- Speech Attribution, pt. 2 – “Using the -IN- Infix”
- Speech Attribution, pt. 3 – “Using the Reciprocal A- Prefix”
“Don’t” Statements
- Don’t pt. 1 – “Don’t Say That”
- Don’t pt. 2 – “Don’t Ask Me”
Existence
- Somebody is Doing Something – “Somebody is making coffee”
Copyright Notice
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