Afraid and angry

Two more feelings — the hot ones. Fear and anger are part of any honest week, and Amatu hands you each as a single, sayable word.

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1 · Say this

mi weli (mee · WEH-lee) I'm afraid.

mi is I (Lesson 1). The new word is weli — fear, dread. The tightening you feel when something threatens. Said plainly, it's how you tell someone you're scared.

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2 · A closer look: fear, and anger

Its hot sibling is huhu — anger. Same shape, mi plus the feeling:

Amatu	Says	Means
weli	"WEH-lee"	fear / dread
huhu	"HOO-hoo"	anger / heat

mi weli — I'm afraid. · mi huhu — I'm angry.

And the flip-word no (Lesson 3) turns either one off:

mi no weli — I'm not afraid / I'm fearless.

These attach to anyone. Bring back the housemates from Lesson 32 — cho (dog) and mau (cat) — and you can report the whole household's mood:

cho weli — the dog is afraid · mau huhu — the cat is angry.

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🌏 You already know this huhu echoes the Hawaiian huhū, angry/offended — and it sounds the part: two hot, huffing breaths. Lots of anger-words across languages lean on that same breathy heat. Say it and you half-feel it.

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⚠️ Watch out huhu is "HOO-hoo," both u's the long "oo" of boot — not the "uh" of English huh. And weli opens with a real w (the w of wet), kept distinct from v.

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3 · Your turn

Out loud:

1. I'm afraid → mi weli
2. I'm angry → mi huhu
3. I'm not afraid → mi no weli
4. The dog is afraid → cho weli

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4 · Tonight's phrase

mi weli — I'm afraid — with mi huhu, I'm angry, for the other hot feeling.

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30-second check

Cover the page. (1) Say I'm afraid. (2) Say I'm angry. (3) Say I'm not afraid. Three for three? Between this lesson and the last, you can now name four core feelings — happy, sad, afraid, angry — which is most of what "how are you, really?" is asking.

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