Use [O ai le] to ask [who is]
O ai le teine?
Who is the girl?

drop [le] and use [O ai] to ask [who are]
O ai tama?
Who are the boys?

follow the question with the vocabulary word for the noun you want (ex.girl, boy, etc) and then location word
[lea, lena, lela, ia, na, la]
O ai le teine lena?
Who is that girl?

If you want to just say who is that?(over there away from us both).
Just use [O ai] followed by the location word (lea, lena, lela, etc…)

O ai lea?
Who is this?

O ai lena?
Who is that?

To respond, start with [O]

->You can then say the person’s name.
ex: It’s tracy.
O Tracy.

->Or if you want to show the person’s relationship to someone else
you can use the words learned in previous lessons (lo’u, lou, lona,
o’u, ou, ona, la’u, lau, lana, a’u, au, ana)

*You don’t need the words that begin with [S] (sa’u, sau, sana)
because you are referring to a specific person that you were just asked
about.

So you could say:
O lo’u (person).    ——-> It’s my (person).
O lo’u ______.     ——> It’s my _______.

O la’u (person).      ——> It’s my (person).
O la’u ______.       —–> It’s my _______.

Then add the word describing the relationship (father, son, friend, etc…)

O lo’u Tina. ——–> It’s my mother.
O la’u uo. ——–> It’s my friend.

You can also show relationship using a person’s name instead of the pronoun my/his/her/your.

ex: It’s Troy’s father
instead of
It’s his father

To do this start with [O le] and follow it with the relationship word (father, son, friend, etc…)

O le tama _____ Troy.

Insert [a] if the relationship is not family.
Insert [o] if it is family.

O le tama o Troy.
It’s troy’s father

O le uo a Troy.
It’s Troy’s friend.

If you want to be more complex in your answer and say something like. [It’s Jody’s friend’s mom.]

you say:
O le tina o le uo a Jody.

When thinking of the order to put it in remember that there are no ‘s
to show relationship in Samoan. So you can’t say [Jody’s]. You have to
say [of Jody]

To show that it belongs to her. So the only way to say that it is
Jody’s friend’s mom without [‘s] would be to say, [It’s the mother of
the friend of Jody.] So, in Samoan it is also: O le tina o le uo a Jody

The difference is that the [of] in Samoan is [o] if the relationship is familial and [a] if it is not.