r/olelohawaii

Word for "foreign land"?

Aloha everyone, I am looking for a word - not a compound, if preferrable - for the concept "foreign land", the antonym to "home". Do you have any suggestions? Mahalo!

reddit.com
u/bulaybil — 2 days ago

Confirm a Sentence please: lele me nā mālolo

The sentence "lele me nā mālolo" should roughtly translate to "To Fly with flying fish".

I used this online dictionary https://wehewehe.org/ and separatly confirmed it with multiple AIs.

My Stepdad somehow thinks that's wrong.
He's a Windsurfer and had a nice surfingevent where flying fish where leaping away from him and his Surfboard. We already made a T-Shirt with this sentence and I hope to get a positive answer from you guys - Thank you in advance!

He uses this thing under his board so he is out of the water himself... so that's why "fly with the flying fish".

reddit.com
u/Herrjehmineh — 5 days ago

Grammar Help

So if someone says “Ke hoʻomākaukau nei au.”
And I want to ask them what they are getting ready for, then how could I say that?

Some ideas, but I don’t think they’re pololei:
“No ka mea aha kou hoʻomākaukau?”
“No ke aha kou hoʻomākaukau?”
“He aha kou hoʻomākaukau?”

Mahalo!

reddit.com
u/RiotReads — 7 days ago