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