Kupu: Question Words

Question 1

What?

Answer 1

aha?
Kei te aha ia?
What is he/she doing?
Kei te aha koe?
Kei te aha ngā tama?

Question 2

What’s this?

Answer 2

He aha tēnei?

Question 3

What’s this?

Answer 3

He aha

Question 4

What colour is the pen.

Red

Answer 4

He aha te tae o te pene?

He whero te tae o te pene.

Question 5

What are these (here by me)?

They are pens

Answer 5

He aha ēnei?

He pene ēnei

Question 6

What is this (here by me)?

Answer 6

He aha tēnei?

Question 7

What is that (by you)?

Answer 7

He aha tēna?

Question 8

Where?

Answer 8

Hea?
Nō hea koe?
Nō Tauranga au

Question 9

What are you doing?

Answer 9

Kei te aha koe?

Question 10

What is your mother doing?

Answer 10

Kei te aha tō māmā?

Question 11

To where?

Answer 11

Ki hea?

Question 13

Where is the pen?

Answer 13

Kei whea te pene?

Question 14

Who?

Answer 14

Wai?
Ko wai tō ingoa?
Ko Lianne tōku ingoa.

Question 15

Who are you?

Answer 15

Ko wai koe?

Question 16

Where is Mere?

Mere is in the Whare.

Answer 16

Kei whea a Mere?

Kei roto a Mere I te whare.

Question 17

How many? (Not people)

Answer 17

E hia
E hia ngā āporo?
E rua ngā āporo

Question 18

How many things?

How many of those things?

Answer 18

E hia ngā mea?

Question 19

What are the boys doing?

Answer 19

Kei te aha ngā Tama?

Question 20

Generally take the question word out of the question

Answer 20

And replace with the answer, and change koe to au

Question 21

There are two of them

Answer 21

E rua ngā mea
E iwa ngā mea
Tekau ngā mea

Question 21

The bird is singing.

Answer 21

Kei te waiata te manu

Question 23

Like, how

Answer 23

Pēhea

Question 24

How are you?

Answer 24

Kei te pehea koe?

Question 25

What was your food like?

Answer 25

I pēhea tāu kai?

Question 26

how? how about? what about? of what sort? of what nature? treat in what way? act in what way? - an interrogative which can be used as an adjective or an ordinary verb

Answer 26

Pehea ? Kei te pehea koe? Kei te pai au.

Question 28

I am listening

Answer 28

Kei te whakarongo au

Question 29

I am laughing

Answer 29

Kei te kata au. | E kata ana au.

Question 30

The duck is swimming

Answer 30

Kei te tāhoe te rakiraki

Question 31

It is raining

Answer 31

Kei te heke te ua.

Question 32

Are you hiding?

Answer 32

Kei te huna koe?

Question 33

The boys are playing

Answer 33

Kei te tākaro ngā tama

Question 34

She is going | She is not going.

Answer 34

Kei te haere ia. 1) ia kei te haere. (Rearrange) 2) ia i te haere (change kei to i) 3) kāore ia i te haere. (Put kāore in front). Or E haere ana ia Becomes Kāore ia haere ana.

Question 35

I am talking | I am not talking

Answer 35

Kei te kōrero au Kāore au i te kōrero E kōrero ana au Kāore au e kōrero ana

Question 35

She is running | She is not running

Answer 35

Kei te oma ia Kāore ia i te oma E oma ana ia Kāore ia e oma ana

Question 36

Is this a pen? Yes No

Answer 36

He pene tēnei? Ae, he pene tëna. Kāore, he tēpu tēnā

Question 37

When?

Answer 37

Nōnahea | Āhea

Question 38

Which

Answer 38

Tēhea | Ēhea

Question 39

What’s the name of that woman?

Answer 39

Ko wai te ingoa ō tera Wahine?

Question 40

What is she doing?

Answer 40

Kei te aha ia?

Question 41

Where is my waka?

Answer 41

Kei hea tōku waka?

Question 42

From where have you returned?

Answer 42

Kua hoki mai koe i hea?

Question 43

Where are you from?

Answer 43

Nō hea koe?

Question 44

When’s the game?

Answer 44

Āhea te kēmu?

Question 45

How many fish are in your kete?

Answer 45

E hia ngā ika kei roto i tōu kete?

Question 45

How many people are coming?

Answer 45

Tokohia ngā tangata e haere mai?

Question 46

Which cup do you like?

Answer 46

Ko tēhea te kapu pai ki a koe?

Question 47

Which books have you read?

Answer 47

Ko ēhea ngā pukapuka kua pānuitia e koe?