Tag: Marshallese Questions

  • Lesson 38: More about questions

    Lesson  38: More about questions

    In Lesson 19 you learned some common questions words (‘who,’ ‘what,’ etc.) and learned that they can be put in many places in the sentence, not just at the beginning.  There are some exceptions to this.  For the words for ‘how,’ ‘how much,’ ‘how long,’ and a certain word for ‘why,’ you must put them…

  • Lesson 30: Do you have?

    Lesson  30: Do you have?

    To make questions with ‘have’ (like ‘do you have a pencil?’ or ‘does she have any sisters?’) just add ‘ke’ after ‘ewōr’ or ‘elōñ’.

  • Lesson 20: More about wh-questions

    Lesson  20: More about wh-questions

    If you want to ask where something or someone is, remember that you must use ‘pād’ which means ‘to be located.’

  • Lesson 19: Wh-questions

    Lesson  19: Wh-questions

    In this lesson you will learn how to say questions with question words like ‘who,’ ‘what,’ and ‘where.’ These are called wh-questions because they have a question word that usually starts with ‘wh.’

  • Lesson 16: Yes/No questions

    Lesson  16: Yes/No questions

    Now you will learn how to make questions like ‘Are you a teacher?’ ‘Did you eat?’ and so forth. We call these ‘Yes-No’ questions because they can be answered with a ‘yes’ or ‘no,’ unlike questions such as ‘Where are you going?’