The one who in Tahitian

In this lesson, we’ll learn how to say the one who in Tahitian as well as that who, these who, those who. This lesson is related to the previous lesson: Relatives in Tahitian.

As a preamble, we learned the following rules in the previous lesson: Relatives in Tahitian :

Function	Detail	Grammatical construction
The relative proposition	Action accomplished	TE + NOUN + I + VERB
	Action in progress in the nei	TE + NOUN + E + VERB + NEI
	Action in progress in the ra	TE + NOUN + E + VERB + RA
	No indication of the degree of accomplishment of the action	TE + NOUN + E + VERB

By replacing the noun with taata, we get:

Function	Detail	Grammatical construction
The relative proposition	Action accomplished	TE + taata + I + VERB
	Action in progress in the nei	TE + taata + E + VERB + NEI
	Action in progress in the ra	TE + taata + E + VERB + RA
	No indication of the degree of accomplishment of the action	TE + taata + E + VERB

As a reminder :

Tahitian	English
Te taata	A person, a human being

The grammatical construction of this lesson consists of removing taata and we obtain:

Function	Detail	Grammatical construction
The one who	Action accomplished	TEI + VERB
	Action in progress in the nei	TĒ + VERB + NEI
	Action in progress in the ra	TĒ + VERB + RA
	No indication of the degree of accomplishment of the action	TĒ + VERB

The same construction is used for that who, these who, those who.

Let’s illustrate with simple examples

Let us choose for verb, the verb to sing: hīmene.

Tahitian	English
Tei hīmene	The one who sang
Tē hīmene nei	The one who is singing
Tē hīmene ra	The one who was singing
Tē hīmene	The one who sings

Short dialogue

Let’s illustrate this lesson with a short dialogue.

Tahitian	English
‘O vai tei tomo mai?	Who entered?
‘O ta’u hoa tei tomo mai	It was my friend who entered
E aha tē haere mai ra?	What made you come?
Tē haere mai e tii ‘o Hina no te tāiaraa	I came to get Hina to go fishing

The already known vocabulary

The already known vocabulary is as follows, it appears in green. Grammatical constructions appear in red.

‘O vai, e aha: Interrogative pronouns in Tahitian – Who, what, where…
Tomo = To penetrate, to enter, to sink a boat: The dining room in Tahitian – I’m hungry, I’m thirsty in Tahitian
Mai: Where are you from in Tahitian – Where are you going – Mai, atu
‘O: Introduce yourself in Tahitian – I, you, he – Vau, au – Who
Ta’u = My: My name is in Tahitian – My, your, his – To’u, ta’u
Te hoa = A friend: This, that, these, those in Tahitian – Teie, tena, tera – Tē vai nei, tē vai ra
Haere = To go: First 30 verbs in Tahitian
Tii = To get: Adjectives in Tahitian- E mea – Particle I, No – Suffix raa
NO TE + VERB-RAA = For: Because in Tahitian – Causality – E aha, no te aha, no te, no te mea

The new vocabulary

Here is the new vocabulary:

Tahitian	English
Tāi’a	To fish

And the rest?

With this lesson, we have just learned to say the one who in Tahitian. And also, we learned 13 vocabulary words and expressions.

The one who in Tahitian – That who, these who, those who – Tei, tē…nei, tē…ra, tē