Majority of the time, the listener knows or can easily guess exactly what you’re talking about. “I seen da kine yesterday at da kine, Sandy Beach.” Maybe the name slipped your mind, but the Da kine fills in for anything people, places, objects, really any word that happens to slip your mind at the time.Īunty’s house, the beach, the remote on the table, or the name of a friend of a friend you saw last week can all be replaced with da kine. It’s similar to the English “whatchamacallit”, “thing-a-ma-jig” and “so-and-so”, but can be used in many other ways. This one is the most convenient and can come up multiple times in any conversation. Hammajang and the Hawaiian word kapakahi can mean anything from bent, crooked, lop-sided, messy, askew or one-sided, to just plain messed up. “What wen happen to your truck? It’s all kapakahi!” These two adjectives are interchangeable and can be used in many different contexts. Whatever happens, happens, you go with the flow because it’s all part of the adventure.
Maybe you end up walking on the beach or stopping to see if a friend is home. This term perfectly captures the laid back Hawaii lifestyle: It usually means going for a drive around the island just for the fun of it with no set plan or destination in mind. You know everything about one another and forget that you actually aren’t related at all. They are usually the children of close family friends that you grew up with and who are of a similar age.
Although technically not related to you, your calabash cousins are so close that they become an extended part of the ʻohana (family). Obama even used this one in a graduation speech at Arizona State University. Yelling it to a friend will give them a boost of confidence to face their fears and take a risk (maybe not always in a good way) because they know you’re backing them up. Some people say it when they see someone doing something crazy, others use it to say, “try your best”, “you can do it” or “don’t give up”. He geev’um brah!” Geev’um is like “go for it,” but means so much more and works in so many contexts.
0 kommentar(er)
