puff 607 Thursday 13th

January 13 Thurs
Te ao toi
Kaupapa korero mo te ra nei
Nga mea hou i te whare pukapuka
Rangahau
He aha nga mea pai i te whare pukapuka ki Papaioea? He aha nga mea tino pai rawa?
Subject of the day
New things at the Library
Analysis
What are the new things at the Library in Palmerston North. What are the best things?
citylibrary.pncc.govt.nz/


Maori Unpacked continued
Appendix One
Particles before and after the verb

Is it a bird? Is it a plane...it is...it's a verb

You can tell its a verb by what comes before or after

before

ka, the inceptive- future and any tense
Ka haere au, I go
kei, lest
Kei hinga au, Lest I fall- is hinga, strictly speaking, a verb here?
kua, perfect
Kua haere au, I have gone
kei te, present continuous
Kei te haere au, I am going
i past
I haere au, I went
i te past continuous
I te haere au, I was going
e future
E haere au, I will go
hei te- future continuous
Hei te haere au, I will be going

kei haere koe, lest you go

after
tense
ana
e haere ana koe ki hea?
Where are you going?
Relative clauses
ai, regularly, usually
haere ai usually go
in a relative clause
or ai can mean in order to
Haere ki reira kai ai
Go there and eat (so that you can, in order to eat).
Manner particles
Then there are words that follow verbs in order to add to or modify the meaning
Kua haere ano ia, he has gone again
There is one manner particle which comes before the verb. Tino.
Ka tino pai rawa atu e
Connectives
i and ki
Ka haere au ki te whare
I go to the house
Ka haere au i te whare
I go from the house
Ka mahi au i te mahi
I do the work
Kua haere totika ia ki te whare
He has gone straight to the house

Negative
Kaore au i te haere, I am not going.
In the negative subject and verb have swapped places. All the other words in the sentence come before the verb.