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A Grammar and Dictionary of the Samoan Language, with English and Samoan vocabulary

Fishing

Fishing

  • Oʻu te alu oʻu to fagota. I shall go a-fishing.

  • Se a lou faiva? What is your fishing?

  • Oʻu te tili le ʻupega. I throw the net.

  • Oʻu te alo atu. I fish for bonito.

  • Laga ia le faga ula. Take up the cray-fish trap.

  • Ina matau so tuna. Hook an eel.

  • Ua o le nuʻu e lepa malie. The people are gone to fish for sharks.

  • Funa, o ia outou ina palu ula. Women, go you and fish for prawns.

  • Ua taoto le atule i gagaʻe. The herring shoal is away at the east.

  • O le a fai le lauloa taeao. Tomorrow the cocoanut-leaf drag will be used.