Chamorro

Introduction

Chamorro is a language of Guam. It is spoken in Also in Northern Mariana Islands, United States.

Dialects

Chamorro, Rotanese Chamorro.

The Chamorro Verb

Verblist

• asagua
• bomba
• chalan
• dingo
• doga
• fugo'
• guaha
• guåsa'
• guifi
• gunos
• hålom
• lahu
• lumábarato
• matai
• måmå'
• me'me'
• nalábarato
• nangga
• pangon
• poksai
• pulan
• puno'
• rebaja
• se'se'
• sese'
• taitai
• tanom
• tanga
• tanges
• togtog
• tuna
• tunu
• ugot

• acha, tutu -- to pound, beat
• aguet -- to throw
• akka' -- to bite
• asson -- to lie down
• atbuetto, pulakes -- to open, uncover
• auifi -- to dream
• ayek -- to choose
• banna -- to swell
• bira -- to turn
• bona, fahan -- to buy
• bulokbok, si'ok -- to stab, pierce
• chahan -- to cook
• cha'lak, utot -- to cut, hack
• chalek -- to laugh
• chochu, kanno' -- to eat
• chopchop, soppla -- to suck
• dokko', la'chok -- to grow
• faggas -- to hit
• fokse, fugo' -- to squeeze
• gimen -- to drink
• go'he, go'te, gu'ot -- to hold
• guaddok -- to dig
• guaife -- to blow
• gupu -- to fly
• hagong -- to breathe
• hasso -- to think
• hotde -- to climb
• hotnát -- to work
• hungok -- to hear
• kassas -- to scratch
• kinibatde -- to fear
• lahu -- to walk
• lakse, sotse -- to sew
• lála'la' -- to live, be alive
• li'e' -- to see
• lotgon -- to fall
• magap -- to yawn
• maigo' -- to sleep
• maila' -- to come
• mapga', puta' -- to split
• mata'chong -- to sit
• matai -- to die, be dead
• muta' -- to vomit
• na'atok, na'na' -- to hide
• ñamñam, ngangas -- to chew
• nangu-ñangu -- to swim
• nginge' -- to sniff, smell
• paki -- to shoot
• pakko', potne, tunu -- to burn
• peska -- to hunt
• puno' -- to kill
• sakke -- to steal
• sangan -- to say
• tachu, tohge -- to stand
• tanges -- to cry
• tanom -- to plant
• to'la' -- to spit
• traba -- to tie up, fasten
• tufong -- to count
• tungo' -- to know, be knowledgeable

References

• Topping, Donald M.. Chamorro Reference Grammar (Micronesia). University of Hawai'i Press. Honolulu, 1980.