Samoan Nouns
Welcome to the third Samoan lesson about nouns. This time we will first learn about fruits and vegetables, followed by grammar rules, then food items, finally a conversation in Samoan to help you practice your daily phrases.
potatoes pateta |
tomatoes tamato |
onions aniani |
carrots karoti |
fruits fuala'au 'ai mata |
apples apu |
bananas fa'i |
oranges moli |
Nouns Grammar Rules
In general nouns refer to a person, an object, or abstract ideas. For example: a fast runner the noun is [runner] because it refers to a person. The examples below use nouns in different ways and places to demonstrate how they behave in a sentence.
| Grammar + Rules - Samoan |
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| do you have milk? [verb + noun] o iai sau susu? |
| I have milk and coffee [preposition + noun] o lo'o iai le susu ma le kofe |
| he has three apples [number + plural noun] e iai ana apu e tolu |
| she only has one apple [number + singular noun] e na o le tasi lana apu o lo'o iai |
| we live in a small house [adjective + noun] matou te nonofo ise fale laititi/tamai fale |
| I like our breakfast [pronoun + noun] ou te fiafia i la tatou ti ole taeao |
The following are nouns of food items that you might be interested in learning and memorizing.
bread falaoa |
milk susu |
butter pata |
cheese sisi |
coffee kofe |
sandwich sanuisi |
meat a'ano manufasi |
chicken moa |
fish i'a |
breakfast ti o le taeao |
lunch aiga o le aoauli |
dinner aiga o le afiafi |
Conversation in Samoan
Now we finally reach the fun part, the practice of the daily conversations. These phrases are used to get to know new people, and break the ice.
| English - Samoan |
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| Do you speak (English/ Samoan)? e te iloa tautala fa'aigilisi/peretania/fa'asamoa? |
| Just a little e ititi |
| I like Samoan ou te fiafia ile gagana samoa |
| Can I practice with you? e mafai ona ou fa'ataitai fa'atasi ma oe? |
| How old are you? e fia ou tausaga? |
| I'm thirty three years old e tolusefulu tolu o'u tausaga |
| It was nice talking to you manaia le ta talatalanoaga |
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