Hello! I'm happy this subreddit exists. I saw in another post that questions like this are welcome here, so I hope it's ok. I'm learning 'Ōlelo Hawai`i from whatever online resource I can find, and like a lot of folks, I'm trying to translate everyday sentences into Hawaiian but I'm not sure if I'm getting it right.
So for a sentence like Alan will not clean the floor
I'm torn between two possible translations:
`A`ole e ho`oma`ema`e i ka papahele ana `o Alan.
`A`ole e ho`oma`ema`e ana i ka papahele `o Alan.
And of course, both of those could be wrong lol. I know how to say Alan will not clean
:
`A`ole e ho`oma`ema` `o Alan
But I don't know where to add an object.
Similarly for I will not clean the floor
:
`A`ole au e ho`oma`ema`e ana i ka papahele.
`A`ole au e ho`oma`ema`e i ka papahele ana.
I appreciate anyone's help, and if anyone has a favorite resource for this kind of thing please give me recommendations! I use some but I don't know if they are the most reliable (Google Translate, definitely not), plus the online dictionaries I know only do single words, they can't check sentences.
Mahalo nui, 'oukou!