puff 560 Tuesday 9th Nov

ENM Update

Tuesday November 9: Forest & Bird Manawatu Public Meeting - Changing our Climate

Speaker: Geoff Keey, Greenpeace NZ
Starts 7.30pm
Te Manawa Art, Palmerston North.
A gold coin donation appreciated. All welcome!


Peter Cleave at the London

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Peter Cleave on guitar and vocals at the London on George Street Palmerston North- Fridays and Saturdays 6- 8.30pm. The London is one of New Zealand's best restaurants. Come and eat. The gig goes into its second month. It started with a show called Peter Cleave aqnd the British Invasion to go with the theme of the London. Beatles, Stones, Van Morrison and the like and it carries on from there.
Maori Unpacked continued
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Let's go around the room again
Just near the centre of the room, beside the Verb we find ka, the inceptive
We can use ka to indicate past, future or present tense
Depends on Context!

Inanahi ka haere au
Yesterday I went

Aapoopoo ka hoki au
Tomorrow I will return

Inaianei ka noho au ki konei
Now I stay here

Just past ka we might find kua, the perfect

Kua tunu koe i te kai
They have cooked the food


And also not far from the centre of the room we might find the indefinite article,

he
a,some

This goes next to the Noun

He whare, a house, some houses.


But just above the fish bowl, in the middle in the room we might find a way to divide the Verbs. Three kinds. The Universal, the Stative and Verbs of Movement.

Universals can take passive endings;

mahi, work

Ka mahi au.
I work.

Ka mahi au i te mahi.
I do the work.

Ka mahia te mahi e au.
The work is done by me.

Statives have a passive built into them.
Ka mau te pooro i a au.
The ball is caught by me.

And verbs of movement do not take the passive

unless

you put whaka-, the causative in front,

haere, to go

whakahaere, cause to go

Ka whakahaeretia te hui e au.
The hui was organised by me.



He kupu hou- some new words

reka- sweet

huka- sugar

kawa- sour

inu- drink

rawa- too as in too sweet, he reka rawa

inanahi- yesterday

aapoopoo- tomorrow

tuku- released, let go

kuri- dog

hanga- make, build

miraka- milk

awhina- help

whakatuu- cause to stand

homai or hoomai- give towards

hoatu- give away

koorero- speak, speech

hopu- see, grab, snatch

taua- war party

aroha- love

mau- catch, take hold of

raakau- stick, tree

hoki- return

inaianei- now

noho- sit

tunu- cook

raatou- they, more than two

pooro- ball

whaka- causative

hui- gathering