Thank you so much for this. I’m learning our native language because my sick uncle who passed away last week was very fluent & was a kaiako at EIT. He gave all his visitors before he left us taonga he made & through his taonga I felt the wairua to learn te reo māori. Your ataata has made this journey easy for me. Tēnā rawa atu koe!
tēnă koe ! A quick question, if I may... We first learned, in the fantastic lesson "Describing people", at 1min30, that the particule 'a' "must be used before using the name of a person". However, in today's great video, the particule 'a' is first used, but is then omited on a latter example : 1:12 He kaiako a Maria rāua ko Ana. 4:56 He tākuta Ana rāua ko Rewi. Since 2 persons are described in both examples, using the same pronom 'rāua', I'm wondering what's the role of the particule 'a' here please, and whether it can be omited or not ? I hope I'm not missing anything here, Thanks for your generosity ! Appreciate it very much
8 месяцев назад+2
Oops! I have made a mistake!! There should be an "a" prior to "Ana" - you have understood perfectly and correctly picked up that there is something missing here, thank you for noticing this!
Kia ora e Ako Maori. Is it correct to say "e" before "korua" or "koutou?"
3 года назад
You wouldn't... but I don't have a grammatical answer for you to explain why not... I will need to do some research and come back to you with why that is! :)
@ I think I remember reading that "e" is only used before words with one long vowel or two short vowels (e.g. *e hoa* 'friend') but not with longer words (e.g. *whaea* 'aunty', *kaiako* 'teacher', *korua* 'you two') and the same rule before imperative verbs (e.g. *e tū* 'stand up', *e noho* 'sit down', *takoto* 'lie down').
3 года назад+1
@@demidron. yes that is right, however you also wouldn't say "e koe" for these sentences, and I'm struggling to explain why that would be. Any thoughts?
@ Hmm, probably just because it's a pronoun then. There are different rules for pronouns and nouns: "ki *te* hoa" (to the friend) vs "ki *a* koe" (to you). My guess is simply that the "e" is only used for the vocative with (short) nouns and for the imperative with (short) verbs, but not used with pronouns.
Thank you so much for this. I’m learning our native language because my sick uncle who passed away last week was very fluent & was a kaiako at EIT. He gave all his visitors before he left us taonga he made & through his taonga I felt the wairua to learn te reo māori. Your ataata has made this journey easy for me. Tēnā rawa atu koe!
He ātaahua tēnă, thanks for sharing ❤❤
tēnă koe !
A quick question, if I may...
We first learned, in the fantastic lesson "Describing people", at 1min30, that the particule 'a' "must be used before using the name of a person".
However, in today's great video, the particule 'a' is first used, but is then omited on a latter example :
1:12 He kaiako a Maria rāua ko Ana.
4:56 He tākuta Ana rāua ko Rewi.
Since 2 persons are described in both examples, using the same pronom 'rāua', I'm wondering what's the role of the particule 'a' here please, and whether it can be omited or not ?
I hope I'm not missing anything here,
Thanks for your generosity ! Appreciate it very much
Oops! I have made a mistake!! There should be an "a" prior to "Ana" - you have understood perfectly and correctly picked up that there is something missing here, thank you for noticing this!
Kia ora e Ako Maori.
Is it correct to say "e" before "korua" or "koutou?"
You wouldn't... but I don't have a grammatical answer for you to explain why not... I will need to do some research and come back to you with why that is! :)
@ I think I remember reading that "e" is only used before words with one long vowel or two short vowels (e.g. *e hoa* 'friend') but not with longer words (e.g. *whaea* 'aunty', *kaiako* 'teacher', *korua* 'you two') and the same rule before imperative verbs (e.g. *e tū* 'stand up', *e noho* 'sit down', *takoto* 'lie down').
@@demidron. yes that is right, however you also wouldn't say "e koe" for these sentences, and I'm struggling to explain why that would be. Any thoughts?
@ Hmm, probably just because it's a pronoun then. There are different rules for pronouns and nouns: "ki *te* hoa" (to the friend) vs "ki *a* koe" (to you). My guess is simply that the "e" is only used for the vocative with (short) nouns and for the imperative with (short) verbs, but not used with pronouns.
He Tangata tatou.