Basic Grammar: Action

Question 1

He aha Action Sentence Stucture?

Answer 1

Tense particle__Verb__Subject Phrase

and mabye some more shit on the end like:

Object phrase, introduced with i or ki. Learn which

Question 2

What are the māori tenses, and their particles?

Answer 2

Present continous: Kei te

Past: I

Past continous: I te

Perfect: Kua

New action: Ka

Continous: E … ana

Question 3

How can one guess whether i or ki is used to introduce the object?

Answer 3

Most take i.

Ki is taken for a ‘directive object’, it corresonds to english at, to etc…

Question 4

He aha kāore senetence struture?

Answer 4

Kāore Subject phrase__neg-action particle verb,

Maybe an Object prase as well

Question 5

NAME THAT NEGATIVE ACTION PARTICLE

Kei te —-> Kāore (subject phrase) ____?

I te —-> Kāore (subject phrase) ____?

I —-> Kāore (subject phrase) ____?

E … ana —-> Kāore (subject phrase) ____?

Kua —-> Kāore (anō) (subject phrase) ____?

Ka —-> Kāore (subject phrase) ____?

Answer 5

I te

I te

I

e … ana

kia

e

Question 6

Kei te aha koe?

Ko wai (mā) kei te kai?

Ko tēhea i mate?

I te kōrero ia i aha?

Answer 6

Questions

Question 7

How about passive voice?

WAZ DAT?!?

Answer 7

Pretty much the only inflection in māori.

Kei te kai au.

Kei te kainga au.

Very different meaning

agent is introduced with ‘e’ (instead of i/ki like active)

Question 8

Māori uses directives alot, what are they?

Answer 8

atu ^

ake >

iho

mai <

Question 9

I and ki also express location

Wot dej du?

Ka hoe te waka ki uta

Ka hoe te waka i uta

Whats the difference?

Answer 9

Kua wehe rātou i te rōpū matua

Ki = to

I = from

Question 10

How doth commands work?

Answer 10

Similar to english.

Just remove the tense particle. And start with ‘E’ if its a 2-sylable verb.

E noho!

Waiata!

Kainga tōu parakuihi!

Oma atu! (if there is a directive, no ‘E’)

Question 11

How doth one express

“Nei, do that not!”

Answer 11

Kaua e Verb

If a passive command, then:

Kaua Subject prase* e *Verb

Māhū!