Translate English to Samoan
Paste English text above and read it in Samoan. Samoan is the language of Samoa and American Samoa and of large communities in Hawaii, California, Utah, New Zealand, and Australia. Family messages, church notices, and travel phrases are what this page translates most.
Common English to Samoan translations
| English | Samoan | Pronunciation | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hello | Talofa | tah-LOH-fah | ||
| Thank you | Faʻafetai | fah-ah-feh-TIE | ||
| Yes | Ioe | ee-OH-eh | ||
| No | Leai | leh-AH-ee | ||
| Please | Faʻamolemole | fah-ah-moh-leh-MOH-leh | ||
| Goodbye | Tofā | toh-FAH |
Tips for English to Samoan translation
Every Samoan syllable ends in a vowel, which gives the language its open, flowing sound and makes pronunciation friendly once you respect the glottal stop, written as a reversed apostrophe. It is a full consonant: faʻafetai has two of them and they are both spoken.
Samoan has a formal register used with matai (chiefs), elders, and in church, with its own vocabulary for common words. The translation produces everyday Samoan; for ceremonial contexts, have a fluent speaker review the register before anything is read aloud.
About the Samoan language
Samoan is one of the oldest and most widely spoken Polynesian languages, official in both Samoa and the US territory of American Samoa. Faʻa Samoa, the Samoan way, keeps the language central to family and church life across the diaspora, and it is among the most spoken Pacific Island languages in the United States.
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No, output is everyday Samoan. Ceremonial language for matai and formal occasions has separate vocabulary; ask a fluent speaker before formal use.
A glottal stop, a real consonant. Keep it when copying text; it changes both sound and meaning.
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