The three jobs of te

This is a practice drill from the free 52-lesson Tongan course. The course reaches for it in lesson 51, special pronoun uses, where it runs inside the lesson as well as on this page.

Future marker, negation connector after ʻikai, or "one", told apart by position.

Every item asks the same thing: Which job is te 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.

Read lesson 51 · Take the lesson 51 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