Lesson 08: How to Connect Ideas in Chamorro with “Because”, “Not” and Questions

To end our series of notes on creating basic descriptive sentences in Chamorro, we are going to learn how to start combining our sentences together to become more comfortable with expressing longer thoughts. We will be using the question marker kao, the negative marker ti, and sa’ (because). Happy studying!

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Lesson 06: How to Turn Basic Statements into Questions – From “You are hungry” to “Are you hungry?”

Ready to start asking questions in Chamoru? In this lesson, you’ll learn how to turn any simple sentence into a yes-or-no question — like changing “You are tired” into “Are you tired?”, or “They are teachers” into “Are they teachers? To make this transformation, we will be learning about the Question Word “Kao” and how it’s used in Chamorro. Happy studying!

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