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nvt., Protest, complaint, criticism; critic, especially a hula critic; formerly a hula master who was invited by another hula master to criticize his class; to criticize; to push, shove, struggle against, oppose, shun, avoid, abstain from, refuse.

• Examples:
  • Nui ke kē o ka poʻe i kēlā puke, there was much protest by the people about that book.
• Related:
  • Kē ʻai, to fast.
  • hoʻokē Caus/sim.; To crowd, elbow, push aside, jostle, struggle, oppress, shun, scorn, protest. Figuratively, to beset with difficulties.
    • Hoʻokē ʻai, to fast.
    • Hoʻokē ā maka, to favor some at the expense of others, as relatives.
    • Hoʻokē ihu, to blow the nose.
    • Nā weliweli hoʻokē, oppressive terrors.
    • Kaʻula i ka hoʻokē a nā manu (saying), Kaʻula [Islet] is crowded with birds [of any crowded place].

2. vi., To clang, as a bell or gong; to dingdong, strike, as a clock.

3. vi., To flatten out, adjust to a surrounding level, as in removing a heap of earth.

• Rare

4. n., Player of the pūhenehene game.

• Examples:
  • Hoʻomau maila nā kē o kēlā ʻaoʻao e koho i kahi i waiho ai ka noʻa, the players of that side continued to guess where the noʻa was placed.

5. Same as kā, the interjection.

• References:
  • 1 Kor. 15.36.

6. n., The letter “k.”

• Source:
  • English.

Rare. suffix. Here and there.

• References:
  • See holoholokē, holokē, lelekē.

1. definite article, same as ka, often translated “the.”

• References:
  • See Gram. 10.2.
  • For use of ke as an alternant of ka, see ka #1.
  • PNP te .

2. Contraction of ka mea e, the one who will, should, or is; the thing that (or which) is, will, should.

• Examples:
  • ʻO wau ke hele aʻe i ka hale, let me go nearby to the house.
  • ʻO ka makuahine wale nō ke noho ana, the mother was the only one staying.
• References:
  • Gram. 10.2.

3. conjunction, If, when (in the future; Gram. 11.1).

• Examples:
  • I kō mākou wā kamaliʻi, ke hoʻolele aku i nā lupe, huhū maila nā kūpuna, in our childhood, when we flew kites the grandparents scolded.
  • Ke hele ʻoe, hele au, if you go, I'll go.

4. A particle connecting certain forms, as hiki and pono, with following verbs.

• Examples:
  • Hiki iaʻu ke hele, I can go.
  • Pono ke hele, right to go.
• References:
  • Gram. 5.4.