Maori Unpacked, 62, Switching Houses
62
Switching Boxes
Having come this far we can now look around the room. Some variations on the basics might be made.
Make sure that the Noun Box is not too far from the Verb Box.
As,
You can take a noun like whare
and make it a verb
by introducing it with a verbal particle like
kua
kua whare
Its become a house
He rakau noa iho i mua
It was just timber before
engari
but
kua whare inaianei
but now its a house
Another way to look at this is to say that it matters where you put the verbal particles. They are like transformers, they can make verbs of the words that follow them..
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