Tag: Because Sa’

Putting Your Chamorro Sentences Together with Not, But, and Because

On By Schyuler LujanIn Chamorro Lessons: Beginner10 Comments

This lesson is part of the Beginner Chamorro learning path.

To wrap up our series on creating basic descriptive sentences in Chamorro, we’ll start practicing how to combine sentences to express longer thoughts. We’ll do this by connecting ideas with “not,” “but,” and “because” in a single thought, giving us a clearer sense of how much we can expand our basic sentences with these small but powerful words. Happy studying!

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How to Say “Because” in Chamorro – “I’m tired because I’m hungry”

On By Schyuler LujanIn Chamorro Lessons: Beginner6 Comments

This lesson is part of the Beginner Chamorro learning path.

At the beginning of our learning, we can be focused on a lot of small sentences. Up until now these are the sentences we’ve learned how to make, sentences like “I am tired”; “They are students”; “We are tired students.” Now we are going to start making our thoughts a little longer by linking these short sentences with the word “because.” So instead of many small, disconnected thoughts we can start to smooth out our speech with sentences like “I am tired because I am a student.” In this post we will learn about the word sa’ in Chamorro and how to use it. Happy studying!

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