Lea Faka-Tonga · Drills

That one is MINE

This is a practice drill from the free 52-lesson Tongan course. The course reaches for it in lesson 37, postposed possessives, where it runs inside the lesson as well as on this page.

Ownership after the noun: ʻaʻaku (things you control) vs. ʻoʻoku (things that shelter or define you), plus ʻa hai / ʻo hai for "whose?".

Every item asks the same thing: Which postposed form 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 37 · Take the lesson 37 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