"but": ka or kae

This is a practice drill from the free 52-lesson Tongan course. The course reaches for it in lesson 24, conjunctions, where it runs inside the lesson as well as on this page.

ka before a tense-marker/pronoun/preposition, kae before a verb or adjective.

Every item asks the same thing: Which form of "but" fills the blank? Each item shows a line of Tongan and a short row of answers to tap. Right or wrong, the drill then says why that answer is the one the grammar wants.

Read lesson 24 · Take the lesson 24 quiz · All practice drills

The Tongan alphabet and pronunciation · Tongan greetings and what they mean · Tongan tense markers explained · Tongan word order · Saying "not" in Tongan · Tongan possessives · The Tongan ko pattern