Now we will learn how to say sentences in the present tense or continuous tense so we can say things like “I am drinking the coffee.” In this post, the main concept we will learn about is called reduplication, and we will apply this to our transitive verb to move our sentences into the present tense.
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In this lesson, we add a little more color to our sentences by describing our objects. We’ll learn how to say “I drank the hot coffee” instead of just “I drank the coffee.” In this post we will review how to make basic descriptions with the linking article na and learn how to use them in our basic action sentences that use transitive verbs.
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Up until this point we have been using stative sentences to describe the world around us with sentences like “I am thirsty”; “The water is hot”; or “The coffee is expensive.” Now we are going to learn how to talk about what we’ve done, with sentences such as “I drank the coffee.” To do this, we will be learning how to make basic past tense sentences in Chamorro with transitive verbs.
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