Lea Faka-Tonga · Drills

Which naʻa? (past / lest / perhaps)

This is a practice drill from the free 52-lesson Tongan course. The course reaches for it in lesson 38, warnings, hopes, permissions, and uncertainty, where it runs inside the lesson as well as on this page, rated advanced.

Tell past-tense naʻa from "lest" (after a command) and "perhaps" (clause-initial).

Every item asks the same thing: Which job is naʻa doing here? 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.

One from the deck: ___ ku kai. The answers offered are Past, “Lest”, “Perhaps”.

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