Lesson 43: The Taʻe- Prefix and Advanced Negation

Building on the basic negation with ʻikai, this lesson introduces the prefix taʻe-, which attaches directly to words to create negative forms like English "un-" or "without," along with several idiomatic expressions for emphatic negation.

You have already seen how a prefix changes a word's meaning, as with faka-. The prefix taʻe- works the same way: it attaches to the front of a word and creates the negative or opposite form.