Example 71-103

Iaia hana hina ia'u malolo
Iaia
3sg
hana
make
hina
thrown
ia'u
obj.1sg
malolo
below
He threw me down.
Comment:
Hanahina is a pidgin innovation; hina 'fall' is a neuter verb and prefixation with hana- 'make, do' transitivizes it; the Hawaiian equivalent is ho'ohina. This sentence is thus transitive. The use of case marking is more common with early texts. Iaia for third person singular is not an instance of case-marking, as it occurs obligatorily for both subjects and objects.
Type:
naturalistic written
Source:
own data 1879