Lea Faka-Tonga · Drills

Some bread vs. the bread

This is a practice drill from the free 52-lesson Tongan course. The course reaches for it in lesson 19, transitive word order, where it runs inside the lesson as well as on this page.

Change "some" → "the" and watch the sentence rebuild, including the ʻa/ʻe subject.

On the drills menu it reads: Some bread vs. the bread: watch the sentence rebuild.

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