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The following words are used to tell the time:
taima: time
karaka: clock or hour
hāora: hour
meneti or meniti: minute
pāhi or pāhitanga: past
hāwhe: half
koata: quarter
i: past
ki: to
For example:
E rua meneti mai i te whā karaka.
Two minutes past four.
Rua tekau meneti mai i te ono karaka.
Twenty minutes past six o'clock.
Te hui a te rua karaka, hei te whare wānanga.
The 2 o'clock meeting will be at the university.Ka taea au te whakaoho e koe ā te whitu karaka?
Are you able to wake me at 7 o'clock?Maranga mai ai au ia rā, ia rā i te whitu karaka.
I always get up every day at seven o'clock.Ko te rima karaka i te ahiahi.
5 o'clock in the afternoon.Hei te tekau mā tahi karaka.
See you at eleven o'clock.Ka whakaweto te koroua i ngā rama ā te 10 karaka.
The old man will turn the lights off at 10 o'clock.Hei te ono karaka.
See you at six o'clock.Ā te tekau karaka tīmata ai te karakia.
The service starts at ten o'clock.Hei te whitu karaka.
See you at seven o'clock.I te tekau karaka.
At ten o'clock.Hei te rua karaka.
See you at two o'clock.I te whitu karaka, kua haere mai ia.
He will have left at seven o'clock.Hāwhe pahi i te iwa karaka.
Half past 9.Hei te toru karaka.
See you at three o'clock.Nō te whā karaka i te ahiahi rātou i tīmata ai.
It was four o'clock in the afternoon when they started.Hei te tekau karaka.
See you at ten o'clock.Ka wehe tātou ā te 2 karaka ā tēnei ahiahi.
We (3 + incl) will leave at 2 o'clock this afternoon.I taraiwa māua ko taku hoa ki te whare wānanga i te waru karaka.
Me and my friend drove to uni at 8 o'clock.E rua meneti mai i te whā karaka.
Two minutes past four.Ko te whitu karaka i te ata.
7 o'clock in the morning.Āe, i te rima karaka.
Yes, at 5 o'clock.Hei te tahi karaka.
See you at one o'clock.Toru karaka te wā.
The time is 2 o'clock.A te waru karaka ka haere tātou ki te marae.
We will go the marae at 8 o'clock.Ka kai tātou ā te whitu karaka.
We'll eat at seven o'clock.Hei te whā karaka.
See you at four o'clock.Hauwhā ki te rua karaka.
Quarter to two.I te whitu karaka i te ahiahi, ka mate ia.
At seven o'clock in the evening, he died.Oho ai au i te wari karaka i te ata.
I usually wake up at eight o'clock in the morning.Haurua mai i te rua.
Half past two.Ko te tekau mā tahi karaka.
It is eleven o'clock.Hei te tekau mā rua karaka.
See you at twelve o'clock.Haurua mai i te ono karaka.
Half past 6.Haurua mai i te iwa karaka.
Half past nine.Kua whakaritea, me tae rātou ki te mira o Kawerau i te iwa karaka.
It was arranged that they should arrive at the Kawearau mill at nine o'clock.Hei te rima karaka.
See you at five o'clock.Mā runga i te tereina o te ono karaka.
On the six o'clock train.Hauwhā mai i te rua.
Quarter past two.I te ono karaka, kua tae atu rātou ki Ōmihi.
By six o'clock they had got to Ōmihi.E rima meneti e toe ana.
There are five minutes remaining.Hei te waru karaka.
See you at eight o'clock.Ka tūtaki tātou ki te pāmu ā te 3 karaka.
We will meet at the farm at 3 o'clock.Nō te iwa karaka rawa, ka tīmata te purei kāri.
Finally, at nine o'clock, the card games started.I ngā ata katoa e ara ana is i te ono karaka.
He gets up at six o'clock every morning.E rua tekau meneti ngā tītī e tunua ana i roto it te umu.
The muttonbirds were roasted in the hot oven for twenty minutes.