Lea Faka-Tonga · Drills

Naʻa or Naʻe? Te or ʻE? te or ke?

This is a practice drill from the free 52-lesson Tongan course. The course reaches for it in lesson 15, noun subjects, where it runs inside the lesson as well as on this page, rated beginner.

One rule, three pairs: use the pronoun form when a pronoun follows, in the past, the future, and negation after ʻikai.

Every item asks the same thing: Which word 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: ___ ku ʻalu. The answers offered are Naʻa, Naʻe.

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