If you're trying to learn Samoan Feminine you will find some useful resources including a course about genders: Feminine and Masculine... to help you with your Samoan grammar. Try to concentrate on the lesson and notice the pattern that occurs each time the word changes its place. Also don't forget to check the rest of our other lessons listed on Learn Samoan. Enjoy the rest of the lesson!
Learning the Samoan Feminine is very important because its structure is used in every day conversation. The more you master it the more you get closer to mastering the Samoan language. But first we need to know what the role of Feminine is in the structure of the grammar in Samoan.
Samoan feminine refers to female qualities attributed specifically to women and girls or things considered feminine. The complement to feminine is masculine. Here are some examples:
| English Feminine | Samoan Feminine |
|---|---|
| Feminine | |
| he is happy | Ua fiafia le tama |
| she is happy | Ua fiafia le teine |
| he is American | O ia o le tama mai Amerika |
| she is American | O ia o le teine Amerika |
| man | tamaloa |
| woman | fafine |
| father | tama |
| mother | tina |
| brother | tuagane |
| sister | tuafafine |
| uncle | uso o le tama/tuagane o le tina |
| aunt | uso o le tina/tuafafine o le tama |
| bull | povi po'a |
| cow | povi |
| boy | tama |
| girl | teine |
Notice the structure of the Feminine in Samoan.
Below is a list of objects, can you determine whether they're feminine, masculine or plural in Samoan? Memorizing this table will also help you add very useful and important words to your Samoan vocabulary.
| English Vocabulary | Samoan Vocabulary |
|---|---|
| objects | |
| bathroom | fale ta'ele |
| bed | moega |
| bedroom | potumoe |
| ceiling | fa'alo |
| chair | nofoa |
| clothes | lavalava |
| coat | ofu talaloa |
| cup | ipu |
| desk | kesi/laulau |
| dress | ofu |
| floor | foloa o le fale |
| fork | tui |
| furniture | meafale |
| glass | tioata |
| hat | pulou |
| house | fale ta'ele |
| ink | vaitusi |
| jacket | ofu tele I tua |
| kitchen | umukuka |
| knife | naifi |
| lamp | moli |
| letter | tusi |
| map | tusi fa'afanua |
| newspaper | nusipepa |
| notebook | tama'I 'api |
| pants | ofuvae |
| paper | pepa |
| pen | peni |
| pencil | penitala |
| pharmacy | faletalavai |
| picture | ata |
| plate | ipu mafolafola |
| refrigerator | pusa'aisa |
| restaurant | fale'aiga |
| roof | taualuga |
| room | potu |
| rug | fasi kapeta teufale |
| scissors | seleulu |
| shampoo | kulimi tofu ulu |
| shirt | ofutino |
| shoes | se'evae |
| soap | fasimoli |
| socks | totini |
| spoon | sipuni |
| table | laulau |
| toilet | faleuila/fale I tua/fale laititi |
| toothbrush | pulumu fulunifo |
| toothpaste | mea fulunifo |
| towel | solota'ele |
| umbrella | fa'amalu |
| underwear | ofulaititi |
| wall | puipui |
| wallet | ato tupe |
| window | fa'amalama |
| telephone | telefoni |
Feminine and Masculine have a very important role in Samoan. Once you're done with Samoan Feminine, you might want to check the rest of our Samoan lessons here: Learn Samoan. Don't forget to bookmark this page.
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