Māori Grammar

Present Tense (kei te)

Past tense (i te)

7. Simple sentences: past tense - i te

8. Past - specifying a particular time - i te

9. Locatives - past (something was somewhere) - i te

10. Negations of the past tense - Kāore... i te...

Future tense (ka)

11. Simple sentences: future tense - ka

12. Ka used to indicate the past - ka

13. Negations of the future (I will not go) - Kāore... e...

14. Future locatives - kei te

E... ana

15. Simple sentences: present tense - e... ana

16. Negations of e... ana... sentences - kāore... e... ana...

17. Sentences with a subclause - e... ana

Past tense (i)

18. Simple sentences: past tense - i

19. Negations of the past tense - Kāore... i...

Have, Has, Had (kua)

20. Simple sentences: past completed tense - kua

21. Negations of kua (I haven't yet...) - Kāore ano... kia...

Someone should do something (me)

22. Simple sentences: you should - me

23. Negations of 'me' - We shouldn't... - Kaua... (passive) e...

24. If... (using me) - me

Uses of 'ai'

25. Habitual action - ai

26. Direction - ...ai

27. The reason for an action - ...ai.

Uses of k`e

28. Actually - kē

Asking if someone has something

29. Do you have any...? - He... ?

30. I have no... - Kāore aku...

Questions

31. Asking who - Ko wai...?

32. Asking 'are you a...?' - He... ?

33. What? - He aha?

34. What is this for? - hei aha?

35. Which - Ko tēhea?

36. How many are needed? - Kia hia

37. What are you doing? - He aha tāu mahi?

38. Who is going to... - Ki a wai te...?

39. How is...? - E pēwhea ana, he pēwhea?

40. When? - Āwhea?

41. Is it OK if... ? - Ka pai taku...?

42. Like this, like that - pēnei, pēna, pēra

43. Why? - He aha... ai?

Commands

44. Command with e! - e!

45. Commands using the passive - Tāpirihia, Tīkina...

46. Commands without e or the passive - Homai! Whakarongo!

47. Negative active commands - Don't! - Kaua e...

48. Negative passive commands (Don't be...) - Kaua... e...

49. Mild imperatives (You should be...) - kia

50. Let there be... - kia...

51. Be careful... lest! - kia... kei...

The definite and indefinite articles (te, ng`a, he, t`etahi, `etahi)

52. The article - te, ngā, he

Use of 'i' and 'ki'

53. Using 'ki' to indicate direction towards something - ki

54. Using 'i' to indicate direction away from something - i - i

55. Using 'i' to mean 'in', 'by' or 'at' - i

56. Sentences with i - i

57. Sentences with ki - ki

58. Verbs that take 'i' (kite, etc) - i

59. Verbs that take 'ki' - ki

60. Verbs that take 'i' or 'ki' - i, ki

Sentences using 'he' and 'ko'

61. Identity sentences - ko...

62. Categorizing sentences - he

63. Negations of identity sentences - ehara...

Direction and location (mai, atu, ake, iho)

64. Towards - mai

65. Away - atu

66. Up - ake

67. Down - iho

68. Direction markers with adverbs - tonu mai, kā atu, rawa mai...

This, that, these, those

69. This - tēnei

70. That (near you) - tēnā

71. That (over there) - tērā

72. These - ēnei

73. Those (near you) - ēnā

74. Those (over there) - ērā

75. This week, this month, this year - i tēnei wiki, i tēnei marama...

76. Last week, last month, last year - tērā

77. That aforementioned thing - taua, aua

Pronouns

78. Pronouns - singular - au, ahau

79. Pronouns - singular - koe

80. Pronouns - singular - ia

81. Pronouns - dual, inclusive of listener - tāua

82. Pronouns - dual, exclusive of listener - māua

83. Pronouns - dual - kōrua

84. Pronouns - dual - rāua

85. Pronouns - plural, inclusive of listener - tātou

86. Pronouns - plural, exclusive of listener - mātou

87. Pronouns - plural - koutou

88. Pronouns - plural - rātou

89. Talking about more than one person - ...rāua ko..., rātou ko...

Family relationships (tēina, tuakana...)

90. Family relationships - father - papa

91. Family relationships - mother - mama, whaea

92. Family relationships - parents - matua, mātua

93. Family relationships - brother to a girl - tungāne

94. Family relationships - sister to a boy - tamahine

95. Family relationships - older sibling of the same sex - tuakana

96. Family relationships - younger sibling of the same sex - teina

97. Family relationships - oldest - mātāmua

98. Family relationships - youngest - pōtiki

Uses of 'hei'

99. Future locative - hei

Statives and Passives

100. Statives - mate, ngaro, mau...

101. Negating statives - kāore i... i ahau...

102. Passive sentences - tikina...

103. Negating passive sentences - Kāore... e...

Transitives and Intransitives

104. Transitive verbs -

105. Intransitive verbs -

Conjuctions (therefore, because, and then...)

106. Conjunctions - and - ā

107. Conjugations - therefore - nā reira, nō reira

108. Conjunctions - because - engari

109. Conjunctions - however - otirā

110. Conjunctions - although - ahakoa

111. Conjunctions - if - mēnā

112. Conjuctions - because - nā te mea

113. Conjunctions - on the other hand, however - heoi anō

114. And then... - ...ka/kātahi... ai...

Locatives (on, under, by, behind...)

115. In, on, by, under... - kei runga...

116. Above, underneath, outside of - runga ake, raro iho, waho atu, roto atu

117. Negating locatives - kāore... i runga...

The agent emphatic

118. An activity belonging to a person - nō - agent emphatic

119. Agent emphatic - māku

120. Negating the future agent emphatic - ehara mā..

Possessives

121. Possessives - 'a' class - ā, tāku...

122. Possessives - 'o' class - ō, tōku...

123. Possessives - neuter - taku, tō...

124. Words that can be 'a' or 'o' categories - o, a

125. Sentences with two possessives - a, o

126. Established possession - nāku, nōku...

127. Unrealised possession - mā, māku

128. Belonging to the past - nō

129. Negating māku possessives - ehara... mō...; ehara... mā

130. Negating nāku possessives - Ehara i...

131. Belonging to a place - nō

Numbers and times

132. Numbering people - tokorua, tokotahi...

133. Numbering things - e rua, e toru...

134. First, second, third... - tuatahi, tuarua...

135. Telling time - kara

Various sentences structures

136. Gerund phrases (fence building, bread baking, dishes washing...) - tunu parāoa...

137. There's no one better than... - Kāore i...

138. I thought mistakenly - Pēnei au...

139. This is like that - he rite tonu

140. Could you please make me... - Tēnā mahia mai he... māku.

141. Never mind the... No worries! - Hei aha te..., Kia ahatia@

142. Don't... just yet! - Taihoa... e

143. To like - rata

144. It was as if - ānō nei

145. You go on ahead - hoatu koe

146. It won't be long before... - kāore e roa...; kāori i roa...

147. Travelling by means of - mā runga

148. Through (one thing/action), (a second thing) will be achieved. - Mā te... ka...; mā... e... ai

149. Almost/just about - kua/i tata...

150. While at the same time/and in addition - me te... anō

151. According to... - E ai ki.../E ai ki tā... /Ki tā

152. It is becoming... - E... haere ana

153. I am able... - Ka taea e...

154. A strong or emphatic negative. - Nō hea, nō whea

155. Be waited for - tāria

156. Certainly, almost certainly, no doubt - Kāore e kore

157. For the purpose of - hei

158. So that something can happen for someone else - kia

159. ...and also, moreover - ...ka mutu

160. there wasn't any... absolutely no... - Kāore kau...

161. When was young - I a e tamariki ana

162. That's the reason... - Koirā te take...

163. All of a sudden - Mea ake

164. It carried on like this... - Pēnei tonu...

165. Perhaps - Tērā pea

166. to be able, to be capable - āhei

167. You’d better watch it! - Ākuanei!

168. When - Kia

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