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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.

s. Name of the papaia fruit and tree.

See II.

v., To beget, as a father.

v. To speak; to say, in connection with the thing spoken or said. Kin. 1:3 and 20.

2. To address one; to make a speech to one; often SYN. with olelo. Kin. 3:1. I mai la ia i ka wahine, he said to the woman (after this follows what was said.)

3. To say within one's self. Kanl. 18:21.

4. To pronounce a single word, as a signal. Lunk. 12:6.

5. To give an appellation, and SYN. with kapa. Isa. 32:5. To designate the name of a person. Oih. 9:36.

conj. If; that; a contraction perhaps of ina.

adj. Stingy.

prep. To; towards; in; at; unto; by; for; in respect of; above; more than; on account of, &c.

has a variety of significations, and is used for a variety of purposes.

is the medium of communication between an active transitive verb or a verb of motion and its object. See Gram. § 105, p. 49, d and e; also. Gram. Syntax, Rule 19. Before proper names of persons and pronouns, the i becomes ia. See note Gram. p. 49.

the third letter of the Hawaiian alphabet. Its sound is that of ee in English, or that of the French i.

adv. When; while; if.

conj., [A contraction of ina.] If; that.

1. v., To speak; to say, in connection with the thing spoken or said.

2. v., To address one; to make a speech to one.

3. v., To give an appellation; to designate a name.

4. v., To adopt, as a child.

1. preposition, To; towards.

2. preposition, In; at; unto.

3. preposition, By; for; in respect of.

4. preposition, Above; more than; on account of. (Used before common nouns.)

n., The name of a select class or company of soldiers under Kamehameha I.

adj., Stingy; close; niggardly.

1. A sign of the imperfect tense of verbs.

2. A sign of the subjunctive mood, being a contraction of ina.

3. A sign of the potential mood; that; as: Ua hai aku au i lohe oukou; I have spoken that you might hear.

4. A sign of the imperative mood, with the verb (to bring) understood. I kukui; (bring) a lamp.

The fourth letter in the Hawaiian alphabet.

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sign of imperfect tense, potential, and imperative moods.

to, towards, in, etc., and connecting verb with object.