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Lesson 13: Ko Questions

The ko pattern also forms questions. Where tense-marker questions ask about actions, ko questions ask about identities: who someone is, what something is, or which one.

The word hai means "who." Combined with ko, it asks about a person's identity.

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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