Lecture 4

Question 1

8

Answer 1

waru

Question 2

5

Answer 2

rima

Question 3

1

Answer 3

tahi/kotahi

Question 4

9

Answer 4

iwa

Question 5

10

Answer 5

tekau

Question 6

6

Answer 6

ono

Question 7

2

Answer 7

rua

Question 8

7

Answer 8

whitu

Question 9

3

Answer 9

toru

Question 10

4

Answer 10

whā

Question 11

When do you use kotahi instead of just tahi?

Answer 11

When you are saying “one” at the start of a sentence

Question 12

What is the use of the word “hia”?

Answer 12

This is to ask how many. It holds the place of an amount/number

Question 13

What is the sentence structure to ask and answer “how many apples are there?”
What is the exception to this?

Answer 13

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

Question 14

How do you say “how many ______ are there”?

Answer 14

E hia ngā ______

Question 15

How do you day “there are [number] _____

Answer 15

E [number] ngā _______

Question 16

How do you say, “there are 10 apples”?

Answer 16

Tekau ngā āporo

Question 17

How do you say “there is one apple”?

Answer 17

Kotahi te āporo (not ngā)

Question 18

What does ngā mean?

Answer 18

It means “the” when referring to more than one thing eg ngā manu means “the birds”

Question 19

what does te mean?

Answer 19

it means “the” when referring to only one thing eg te kurī means the dog

Question 20

How can you change from asking “how many apples are there” to “how many apples do you have”?

Answer 20

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.

Question 21

How do you say
“how many dogs do you have?”

Answer 21

“E hia ō kurī?”

Question 22

How do you say
“I have one dog”?

Answer 22

kotahi toku kurī

Question 23

How do you say
“I have 8 dogs”?

Answer 23

E waru aku kurī

aku is the form of my/I have, for more than one thing

Question 24

How do you say
“I have 10 dogs”?

Answer 24

Tekau aku kurī

Question 25

How do you count between 11 and 19

Answer 25

tekau mā _____ tahi 11 rua12 toru 13 whā 14 rima 15 ono 16 whitu 17 waru 18 iwa 19

Question 26

How do you say "I have 18 pens"? pen = pene

Answer 26

tekau mā waru aku pene

Question 27

How do you say "there are 14 bottles"? bottle = pātara

Answer 27

takau mā whā ngā pātara

Question 28

How do you say "how old are you?" What does this literally translate to?

Answer 28

E hia ō tau? How many your years?

Question 29

How do you say "how old is the woman?" What does this literally translate to?

Answer 29

E hia ngā tau o te wahine? how many the years of the woman?

Question 30

Translate: E hia ō tau?

Answer 30

How old are you?

Question 31

What is the prefix to use when saying "first, second, third etc"?

Answer 31

tua eg. tuatahi first tuarua second tuatoru third

Question 32

What is the prefix you use when counting objects?

Answer 32

ka eg. katahi karua katoru

Question 33

What is the prefix you use when counting people? What are the exceptions to this?

Answer 33

toko eg. tokorua tokotoru except if there is only one person or if there are 10 people, you just say "kotahi" or "tekau".

Question 34

How do you say "how many people are there?" What does this literally translate to?

Answer 34

Tokohia ngā tāngata? how many the people?

Question 35

How do you say "there is one person"?

Answer 35

kotahi te tangata

Question 36

how do you say "there are 5 people"?

Answer 36

tokorima ngā tāngata

Question 37

How do you say "there are 19 people"?

Answer 37

Tekau mā iwa ngā tāngata

Question 38

How do you say "how many grandchildren do you have?"

Answer 38

tokohia ō mokopuna?

Question 39

How do you say "I have 1 grandchild"?

Answer 39

Kotahi taku mokopuna

Question 40

How do you say "I have 3 grandchildren"?

Answer 40

Tokorua aku mokopuna

Question 41

How do you say "I have 10 grandchildren"?

Answer 41

Tekau aku mokopuna

Question 42

How do you say "How many children does Piri have?" What does this literally translate to?

Answer 42

Tokohia ngā tamariki a Piri

Question 43

How do you say "He has 2 children"?

Answer 43

tokorua ana tamariki

Question 44

What are the only numbers you use toko as a prefix for? Except for numbers beginning with tekau, what do you use instead?

Answer 44

2-9 E eg. he has 21 grandchildren E rua tekau mā tahi ana mokopuna

Question 45

how do you say "he has 1 child"?

Answer 45

kotahi tana tamaiti

Question 46

I have one older sibling (of the same sex as me)

Answer 46

Kotahi taku tuakana

Question 47

SHE HAS TWO YOUNGER SIBLINGS

Answer 47

tokorua ana tēina

Question 48

my father has eight grandchildren

Answer 48

tokowaru ngā mokopuna a taku Pāpā

Question 49

Mark has 5 sisters

Answer 49

tokorima ngā tuāhine o Māka

Question 50

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"?

Answer 50

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

Question 51

He has 21 grandchildren

Answer 51

E rua tekau mā tahi ana mokopuna

Question 52

There are 89 birds

Answer 52

E waru takau mā iwa ngā manu

Question 53

I have 12 nephews and nieces

Answer 53

tekau mā rua aku irāmutu

Question 54

She has 27 books

Answer 54

E rua tekau mā whitu ana pukapuka

Question 55

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 ______

Answer 55

tokohia e hia toko e tekau kotahi

Question 56

How do you say "there are 0 apples"?

Answer 56

Kāore ngā āporo

Question 57

How do you say "I have 0 children"?

Answer 57

Kāore aku tamariki

Question 58

How do you say "my mother has three older sisters"?

Answer 58

tokotoru ngā tuākana o taku Māmā

Question 59

She doesn't have any younger sisters

Answer 59

Kāore ana tēina

Question 60

Pita's grandfather is 101 years old

Answer 60

Kotahi rau mā tahi ngā tau o te koroua o Pita

Question 61

She has one cat and two dogs cat = ngeru

Answer 61

Kotahi tana ngeru e rua ana kurī

Question 62

How do you say hundred

Answer 62

rau

Question 63

how do you day thousand

Answer 63

mano

Question 64

100

Answer 64

kotahi rau

Question 65

105

Answer 65

kotahi rau mā rima

Question 66

253

Answer 66

E rua rau e rima tekau mā toru

Question 67

731

Answer 67

E whitu rau e toru tekau mā tahi

Question 68

908

Answer 68

E iwa rau mā waru

Question 69

1000

Answer 69

Kotahi mano

Question 70

1004

Answer 70

Kotahi mano mā whā

Question 71

2932

Answer 71

E rua mano e iwa rau e toru tekau mā rua

Question 72

He has 246 books

Answer 72

E rua rau e whā takau mā ono ana pukapuka

Question 73

There are 312 children

Answer 73

E toru rau e tekau mā rua ngā tamariki

Question 74

I have 128 pens

Answer 74

Kotahi rau e rua tekau mā waru aku pene

Question 75

There are 1002 women

Answer 75

Kotahi mano mā rua ngā wāhine

Question 76

Tēnei

Answer 76

This (connected to the speaker)

Question 77

Tēnā

Answer 77

That (connected to the listener)

Question 78

Tērā

Answer 78

That (not connected to the listener)

Question 79

Do adjectives come before or after the noun?

Answer 79

after

Question 80

ēnei

Answer 80

these (ie. this plural, connected to the speaker)

Question 81

ēnā

Answer 81

those (ie. that plural, connected to the listener)

Question 82

ērā

Answer 82

those (ie. that plural, not connected to the listener)