Lecture 4 Flashcards
8
waru
5
rima
1
tahi/kotahi
9
iwa
10
tekau
6
ono
2
rua
7
whitu
3
toru
4
whā
When do you use kotahi instead of just tahi?
When you are saying “one” at the start of a sentence
What is the use of the word “hia”?
This is to ask how many. It holds the place of an amount/number
What is the sentence structure to ask and answer “how many apples are there?”
What is the exception to this?
E hia ngā āporo
E [amount] ngā āporo
If there was only one (kotahi) or ten (tekau) of something, you wouldn’t need to put “e” at the front of the sentence
How do you say “how many ______ are there”?
E hia ngā ______
How do you day “there are [number] _____
E [number] ngā _______
How do you say, “there are 10 apples”?
Tekau ngā āporo
How do you say “there is one apple”?
Kotahi te āporo (not ngā)
What does ngā mean?
It means “the” when referring to more than one thing eg ngā manu means “the birds”
what does te mean?
it means “the” when referring to only one thing eg te kurī means the dog
How can you change from asking “how many apples are there” to “how many apples do you have”?
Instead of asking “e hia ngā āporo?” you would say “e hia ō āporo?”
ō is the form of you have, for more than one thing.
How do you say
“how many dogs do you have?”
“E hia ō kurī?”
How do you say
“I have one dog”?
kotahi toku kurī
How do you say
“I have 8 dogs”?
E waru aku kurī
aku is the form of my/I have, for more than one thing
How do you say
“I have 10 dogs”?
Tekau aku kurī
How do you count between 11 and 19
tekau mā _____
tahi 11
rua12
toru 13
whā 14
rima 15
ono 16
whitu 17
waru 18
iwa 19
How do you say “I have 18 pens”?
pen = pene
tekau mā waru aku pene
How do you say “there are 14 bottles”?
bottle = pātara
takau mā whā ngā pātara
How do you say “how old are you?”
What does this literally translate to?
E hia ō tau?
How many your years?
How do you say “how old is the woman?”
What does this literally translate to?
E hia ngā tau o te wahine?
how many the years of the woman?
Translate:
E hia ō tau?
How old are you?
What is the prefix to use when saying
“first, second, third etc”?
tua
eg.
tuatahi first
tuarua second
tuatoru third
What is the prefix you use when counting objects?
ka
eg.
katahi
karua
katoru
What is the prefix you use when counting people?
What are the exceptions to this?
toko
eg.
tokorua
tokotoru
except if there is only one person or if there are 10 people,
you just say “kotahi” or “tekau”.
How do you say
“how many people are there?”
What does this literally translate to?
Tokohia ngā tāngata?
how many the people?
How do you say
“there is one person”?
kotahi te tangata
how do you say
“there are 5 people”?
tokorima ngā tāngata
How do you say
“there are 19 people”?
Tekau mā iwa ngā tāngata
How do you say
“how many grandchildren do you have?”
tokohia ō mokopuna?
How do you say
“I have 1 grandchild”?
Kotahi taku mokopuna
How do you say
“I have 3 grandchildren”?
Tokorua aku mokopuna
How do you say
“I have 10 grandchildren”?
Tekau aku mokopuna
How do you say
“How many children does Piri have?”
What does this literally translate to?
Tokohia ngā tamariki a Piri
How do you say
“He has 2 children”?
tokorua ana tamariki
What are the only numbers you use toko as a prefix for?
Except for numbers beginning with tekau, what do you use instead?
2-9
E
eg. he has 21 grandchildren
E rua tekau mā tahi ana mokopuna
how do you say
“he has 1 child”?
kotahi tana tamaiti
I have one older sibling (of the same sex as me)
Kotahi taku tuakana
SHE HAS TWO YOUNGER SIBLINGS
tokorua ana tēina
my father has eight grandchildren
tokowaru ngā mokopuna a taku Pāpā
Mark has 5 sisters
tokorima ngā tuāhine o Māka
Why do we say
tokowaru ngā mokopuna “a” taku Pāpā but we say
tokorima ngā tuāhine “o” Māka?
When do we use “a” and when do we use “o”?
You use the “a” category when the thing that is possessed is any of the following:
- people you have responsibility over (eg. a father with his children)
- man made things (except clothing)
- actions
- food and drink (but not drinking water)
You use the “o” category when the thing that is possessed is any of the following:
- parents or siblings (like Mark and his sisters)
- friends
- partners (but not husband or wife)
- feelings
- transport
- shelter
- drinking water
- medicine
- clothes
- parts of the body
He has 21 grandchildren
E rua tekau mā tahi ana mokopuna
There are 89 birds
E waru takau mā iwa ngā manu
I have 12 nephews and nieces
tekau mā rua aku irāmutu
She has 27 books
E rua tekau mā whitu ana pukapuka
When asking a question relating to how many people, you start with ______ but when asking about anything else you start with ________.
In you answer is there is between 2 and 9 people you would start with ______.
For more than 1 thing, you would start with _____ except directly before ______ or ______
tokohia
e hia
toko
e
tekau
kotahi
How do you say
“there are 0 apples”?
Kāore ngā āporo
How do you say
“I have 0 children”?
Kāore aku tamariki
How do you say
“my mother has three older sisters”?
tokotoru ngā tuākana o taku Māmā
She doesn’t have any younger sisters
Kāore ana tēina
Pita’s grandfather is 101 years old
Kotahi rau mā tahi ngā tau o te koroua o Pita
She has one cat and two dogs
cat = ngeru
Kotahi tana ngeru e rua ana kurī
How do you say hundred
rau
how do you day thousand
mano
100
kotahi rau
105
kotahi rau mā rima
253
E rua rau e rima tekau mā toru
731
E whitu rau e toru tekau mā tahi
908
E iwa rau mā waru
1000
Kotahi mano
1004
Kotahi mano mā whā
2932
E rua mano e iwa rau e toru tekau mā rua
He has 246 books
E rua rau e whā takau mā ono ana pukapuka
There are 312 children
E toru rau e tekau mā rua ngā tamariki
I have 128 pens
Kotahi rau e rua tekau mā waru aku pene
There are 1002 women
Kotahi mano mā rua ngā wāhine
Tēnei
This (connected to the speaker)
Tēnā
That (connected to the listener)
Tērā
That (not connected to the listener)
Do adjectives come before or after the noun?
after
ēnei
these (ie. this plural, connected to the speaker)
ēnā
those (ie. that plural, connected to the listener)
ērā
those (ie. that plural, not connected to the listener)
