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Samoan — Proficiency Vocabulary

91 words

Can understand with ease virtually everything heard or read.

#	Word	Type	IPA	Definition
1	-ga	Phrase		Used to make a verb into a noun with a related meaning.
2	'e	Pronoun		Pronunciation spelling of he.
3	'i	Preposition
4	'o	Adverb		Placed at the beginning of nominative phrases to signify that they are declarative.
5	'oe	Pronoun		(Pronoun).
6	'ou	Pronoun		(Pronoun).
7	'oulua	Pronoun		(Pronoun).
8	'outou	Pronoun		(Pronoun).
9	A	Noun, Pronoun
10	a'a	Noun
11	a'u	Pronoun		(Pronoun).
12	afā	Noun		hurricane.
13	afe	Adjective
14	afi	Noun		fire (oxidation reaction).
15	ago	Noun
16	aʻu	Pronoun		me (indirect object of a verb).
17	alo	Noun		smooth, soft side of a thing.
18	alu	Verb
19	ao	Noun
20	apa	Noun
21	aso	Noun
22	ava	Noun		passage through a coral reef for boats.
23	ē	Pronoun, Preposition		by (a person or animate object).
24	fā	Adjective
25	fa'afetai	Interjection		thank you.
26	fa'amolemole	Interjection
27	fau	Noun		cottonwood hibiscus (Talipariti tiliaceum, syn. Hibiscus tiliaceus).
28	fia	Verb		want to do something.
29	foe	Noun
30	fou	Adjective		new (recently made or created).
31	fua	Noun
32	fue	Noun		whisk (symbol of talking chiefs/orators).
33	ʻau	Noun
34	ʻe	Pronoun
35	ʻo	Adverb		Placed at the beginning of nominative phrases to signify that they are declarative.
36	ʻo ā mai ʻoe	Phrase		how are you?.
37	ʻoe	Pronoun
38	ʻou	Pronoun		singular 1st person pronoun.
39	ʻoulua	Pronoun
40	ʻoutou	Pronoun
41	i	Adverb, Preposition		used to mark the following (noun or noun phrase) as a direct object.
42	ia	Adverb, Pronoun		Precedes a name to mark it as a direct object.
43	iao	Noun		honeyeater.
44	ifi	Noun		A tree of species Inocarpus fagifer (sea grape, Tahitian chestnut) with edible nuts.
45	iʻa	Noun		fish (vertebrate animal).
46	ina	Adverb		Marks the imperative mood, for positive commands.
47	isi	Pronoun		some, a few.
48	iva	Adjective
49	ivi	Noun
50	la	Noun
51	lau	Noun, Adjective
52	le	Adverb, Pronoun, Article		the (the definite article).
53	leo	Noun		voice, sound.
54	lua	Noun, Adjective		hole, pit.
55	ma	Pronoun, Preposition, Conjunction
56	mau	Noun
57	mo	Preposition
58	moa	Noun		banana blossom, flower at the end of its bunch.
59	moe	Verb
60	na	Pronoun
61	ni	Article		some (plural indefinite article).
62	niu	Noun		coconut (fruit of coco palm).
63	o	Preposition
64	ola	Interjection		An exclamation to mean wonderful.
65	one	Noun
66	ono	Adjective
67	oti	Noun, Adjective
68	pai	Noun
69	po	Noun
70	poi	Noun		Samoan poi.
71	sau	Noun
72	se	Article		a (singular indefinite article).
73	soa	Noun		an ambassador from a boy to the object of his affections.
74	tā	Verb, Pronoun		to adze, chip into shape, hew (of adze).
75	tae	Noun		excrement.
76	talofa	Interjection
77	tao	Noun
78	tāu	Noun, Verb		…
79	tei	Noun		younger relative.
80	toa	Noun, Adjective		courageous.
81	tou	Pronoun
82	tua	Noun		Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de tuer.
83	ua	Noun, Adverb		present tense marker.
84	ufi	Noun
85	uli	Noun, Adjective		taro sprouts.
86	ulu	Noun
87	umu	Noun
88	uso	Noun	/[ˈʊ.so]/	pith (the soft, spongy substance in the center of the stems of many plants and trees).
89	vae	Noun		Initialism of variational autoencoder.
90	vai	Noun		water (clear liquid H₂O).
91	vī	Noun		Spondias dulcis, ambarella or Otaheite apple.

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