Lea Faka-Tonga · Drills

ʻi / ki / mei (and the form they take)

This is a practice drill from the free 52-lesson Tongan course. The course reaches for it in lesson 7, prepositions: ki, ʻi, and mei, where it runs inside the lesson as well as on this page, rated beginner.

at/to/from and its shape: bare before a place, -a before a name, -ate before a pronoun.

Every item asks the same thing: Which preposition 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.

One from the deck: Naʻá ku ʻalu ___ Vavaʻu. The answers offered are ki, kia, kiate.

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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