On grammatical class:
- ba'u
- discursive: exaggeration - accuracy - understatement.
- da'i
- discursive: supposing - in fact.
- do'a
- discursive: generously - parsimoniously.
- je'u
- discursive: truth - falsity.
- ke'u
- discursive: repeating - continuing.
- la'a
- discursive: probability - improbability.
- li'a
- discursive: clearly - obscurely.
- mu'a
- discursive: for example - omitting - end examples.
- pa'e
- discursive: justice - prejudice.
- ra'u
- discursive: chiefly - equally - incidentally.
- sa'e
- discursive: precisely speaking - loosely speaking.
- sa'u
- discursive: simply - elaborating.
- ta'o
- discursive: by the way - returning to main point.
- to'u
- discursive: in brief - in detail.
- va'i
- discursive: in other words - in the same words.
- zu'u
- discursive: on the one hand - on the other hand.
- fu'au
- discursive: luckily - not pertaining to luck - unluckily.
- je'au
- discursive: correcting/corrective/correction - inattentive/uncaring/neutral toward the presence of possible errors - permitting (known/likely/plausible) error/incompleteness/approximation
- so'ei
- discursive: "to be honest", being frank, candid, speaking one's mind - deliberately "not getting into it", saying less than is on one's mind
- ta'ei
- discursive: reconsideration of statement - continuing (on) in that line of thought/discussion
- te'i'o
- discursive: specified by the speaker - unspecified by the speaker
- xa'i
- discursive: imagining/roleplaying - not imagining/"out of character / in real life"
- xe'o
- discursive: simply/merely/just, "all there is to it" - not simply, not just, "there's more to it"
- xu'a
- discursive: persuading - not arguing/negotiating - conceding