Lea Faka-Tonga · Drills

Who did it: ʻa, ʻe, or ʻe he?

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, rated intermediate.

Intransitive subjects take ʻa; transitive doers take ʻe (name) / ʻe he (common noun).

Every item asks the same thing: Which subject marker 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: Naʻe nofo ___ Lupe ʻi kolo. The answers offered are ʻa, ʻe, ʻe he.

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