Grammar of the New Zealand language (2nd edition)

ngi, and saluting, and crying; i

ano ki te utu, he is working, and i

kau aroha, pray wi

ia, went tog

ere i to koutou kainga, as

a, as f

a,[29

e Waitemata, as far as

e is willing. Me i kahore koe

conjunction.) vid.

you may judge from, (vid. hok

oia i riri ai, the

ssor Gesenius' Hebrew Lexicon, will, we are sure, read with pleasure his remarks upon its parallel in Hebrew. "It was a part of the simplicity of ancient language to mark merely the connexion of ideas, without expressing those nice distinctions of th

to) when; Ina korero

y in cases in which contin

? who is to follow it,

. It generally, however, implies opposition, and might be translated by but, &c. Sometimes also, it has th

then, &

atu a Hone, and

y often used as an adverb

} re

t cause, th

a

ae, becaus

pu, a good reason indeed why it did

ano (Waik

ir

ir

and nev

a

, (Wa

All these

hore, the adv

ei, and den

etimes) some

wever

(sometimes)

construct

can only

, by pr

tohe e kore e marere, although you i

, The following "though we were sinners he loved us," should t

es of phrases which supply

e pai, if he

haere,

if it had

(Waikato) na tatou, if it h

what better will he be? lit.

ahia iho, I had put it all to right

he is spoken to, he rises up, i. e., whe

e whakatoi nei, ju

ven though, (no matter whet

ira,

n supplying the place of conjunc

th, when it denotes connexion, &c., a meaning which we believe

erve, use me i mua; this, how

tural and necessary effect of a preceding proposition. For example, we might use mo reira, &c., in such a sentence as the following:

;" "the Sun shines, therefore the sun is a luminous body;" "man is an animal, therefore man has sensation;" because it would not be true to say, th

r abstract, we must have recourse to other words, such as na, a, ra, pea, &c., and t

rrect. For the conclusion is the proposition that we in principio affirm to be true, and having proved it, we