Barter, &c

• O le a lau feau? What is your message?

• Oʻu te sau oʻu te faʻatau. I have come to sell?

• Ni a au mea e faʻatau? What have you to sell?

• Au mai seʻi fun ai. Bring it that it may be weighed.

• E tusa ma le tala. It is a dollar's worth.

• Au mai se ofu tino. Let me have a shirt.

• O le a lau faʻatau? What have you to sell?

• Oʻu te faʻatau talo e mata tolu. I have thirty heads of taro to sell.

• Na o le mata lua oʻu te faʻatau ai. I will buy twenty heads only.

• Se a se mea e te manaʻo ai? What do you want for it?

• Oʻu te manaʻo le iʻe sina. I wish for white calico.

• Oʻu te manaʻo se moli ta-ofu. I wish for some washing soap.

• Pe avatu se tino i tupe e totogi ai? Shall I pay you in money?

• O laʻu iʻa lenei oʻu te faʻatau. This is my fish for sale.

• Pe avatu ai lau seleni? Shall I give you a shilling for it?

• Ua oʻu sau e faʻatau le puaʻa. I have come to sell a pig.

• ʻO laʻu faʻatau ʻo moa. I have fowls to sell.

• E fia moa? How many fowls?

• ʻO le a le tau? What is the price?