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1. Particle marking direct and indirect object, agent, source (indefinite), instrument, causation. To, towards, at, in, on, by, because of, for, due to, by means of. (After loaʻa-type words i marks the agent. Before pronouns, the interrogative wai, who, names of people, and sometimes before names of places and titles of songs or stories, i is replaced by iā.)

• References:
  • Gram. 9.3.
  • PPN ʻi , PPN ki .

2. Particle preceding subordinate verbs and marking completed or past action and state or condition; sometimes the anaphoric ai follows the verb or verb phrase.

• References:
  • Gram. 5.2.
  • PCP i .

3. Particle preceding subordinate verbs and marking imperative/exhortative mood and purpose.

• References:
  • Gram. 5.4.

4. conjunction, If.

• Examples:
  • Ā i ʻino mai ke koko, pau pū ka hale i ka ʻino, if the blood is bad, the house is at the same time bad.
• References:
  • Gram. 11.1.

5. conjunction, While, at the time that, when, no sooner than, as soon as (replaced by iā in the same contexts as i #1).

• Examples:
  • I ka makua kāne nō a make, pau ke kālā i ka lū ʻia, no sooner had the father died than the money was squandered.
• References:
  • Gram. 11.1.

Transitivizer suffix.

• References:
  • Cf. haui, kālai, minoi, Gram. 6.6.4.
  • PPN -i , PPN -hi : cf. hui #2.

Transitivizer suffix.

• References:
  • Cf. panaʻi, pukuʻi, Gram. 6.6.4.
  • PPN -ki .

1. nvi. To say, speak, suppose; saying.

• Examples:
  • ʻĪ ihola ke Akua (Kin. 1.3), God said.
  • He ʻī mai kāu e ō hele mai hoʻi nā keiki, you would think the children would come.
• References:
  • PPN kii .

2. n. Supreme, great, best (frequently a part of names, as Kaʻīimamao (KL. title), the supreme one at a distance; ʻĪlālāʻole, supreme without branches).

• Examples:
  • ʻO kela nō ka ʻī, that is the best.

3. vs. Hard, close, stingy.

• References:
  • Cf. ʻīʻī #1.

4. Interjection of scorn, used idiomatically.

• Examples:
  • No hea ke aʻo ʻana i ka hula? I ka ʻī! Where learn the hula? Much [she] knows about it! Stuff and nonsense!

5. n. The letter “i”.