Sunday, October 05, 2008

Maori Unpacked, 38, Imperatives

38

Imperatives

We MUST file these away in the right place. We'd BETTER...

Kia Ora, be well

Me haere koe, You should go

And then there is the PASSIVE IMPERATIVE
Mahia! Let it be done!
The endings are the same as the Passive endings so the Passive Imperative Box could well go alongside the Passive Box.

And then there are imperatives using E
E tuu! Stand up!
E noho! Sit down!
Again, as with forms of address E is only used with words of two syllables and less.

So we could put Kia, Me, Mahia and E in a series of Boxes one after another.

We could have a circle of Mobiles using these words..

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