Tag: Intransitive Sentences

Lesson 31: More Practice With People and Verbs – “The woman danced”

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This post will be an overview of how we can add nouns as the subjects in our basic action sentences that use intransitive verbs. We will learn the structures to express thoughts like “The woman ate” or “The child will run.” Up until now we’ve only been using pronouns as our subjects, to focus more on word order and verb transformations. So adding noun subjects will help us put more variety into our action sentences. This post will include examples for past tense, present tense, and future tense sentences that use intransitive verbs. Happy studying!

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Lesson 24: Talking About What We Can and Can’t Do in Chamorro With Intransitive Verbs – “I can stay.”

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In this last post our series focusing on beginner sentences with intransitive verbs, we will learn how to make basic “can” statements with our intransitive verbs. We will be using the word siña to make sentences like “I can stay” or “I can go to the store.” We’ll also be looking at how to make negative statements, like “I cannot stay” and turning our statements into questions like “Can I stay?” Before reading this post, it is recommended that you have familiarity with transitive verbs and how to conjugate them to make basic sentences. To review these topics, please see my post for an Introduction to Transitive Verbs & Affixes. And to see the whole series of lessons on basic sentences with intransitive verbs, see the full list here.

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Lesson 23: Talking About What We “Must” or “Should” Do With Intransitive Verbs  – “I must stay”

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Continuing with our basic action sentences, we will learn how to make must / should statements with our intransitive verbs. We will be able to say sentences like “I must sleep” or “You must/should rest” by putting the word debidi (also spelled as debi de) at the front of our future tense sentences.

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Lesson 22: Giving Commands in Chamorro With Intransitive Verbs – “Stay”

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In this post, let’s learn how to make basic commands with intransitive verbs and learn to say things like, “Stay at the house” or “Walk to the store.” We’ll cover the basic verb conjugations needed and how to add time and location to our commands.

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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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