Grammar of the New Zealand language (2nd edition)

its plural e tahi, or one of the possessive pronouns intervening, and it

aiti, this

a kitea, som

common use of it is, to i

help for such a purpose; e. g., he rakau tenei, this is a

erformed by ko, when the noun, &c., to which i

you are the per

ainga, the tops

e is composed, are convertible,[33] or are intended, at least, to be represented as similar; e. g., ko

o Ngakete, if Pahuru

ia, I and

subjects of which the same thing is affi

e tahi raua, Kukutai and Wherowh

s represent and; e. g., e takoto nei ko te pihi ko te poro, i

is mine; ko taku paraikete tena, that is my blanket. The former of these two sentences implies that the blanket is his property; the l

one i haere

a Hone

says that John went; the former that John, as contradistinguished from s

llow the verb; e. g., na ka hinga ko Haupokia, na ka h

kai he poaka, he riwai, he aha, he aha, the food for man is pork, potatoes, e

his rule, especially when tenei, &c

itle or name of men or things which

eni," the (Newspaper) t

ere is Joh

e. g., in taunting; tou ngene, your ngene[35]; taku tirohanga, my looking, i. e., when I looked. Ka whati tera,

ano; ko te maeke ra, we are willing; but the cold, i. e., we should be glad t

o in the following: Me he mea ko te Paki, e rongo ratou; ko tenei e kore e rongo, i

almost always prefixed to the nominative absolute; e. g., ko taua kupu a

ka ora ratou, believe

cts the ko is omitt

page 12. The student will therefore remember that it does not rec

ission of

when the noun follows immediately after the verb; e. g., Whakamate tan

ial particles a and tua; e. g.,

associated with the noun; ho ma

s assuming the forms of oku, ou, ona, &c., when in connection with o, and a; in the same way as they adopt the form of mona, nona, &c., when in combination with the prepositions mo, no, &c., &c. (vid. our remarks on noku and maku page 22, and tenei, &c., page 31.) So

its uses from te

n implies the verb subs

lmost always found in the nominative case after the subs

uri, it was eaten by a dog; hei tiki i he rakau, to f

te i mahana ai au. We believe, however, that this exception to rule (b) is

other in apposition, a is sometimes prefixed to the latter; e. g., Ka noho atu tera i t

na a te paraoa, he is paddling to

Na wai tenei haere a te po? Whose going is this, (I

tive will very seldom take a before it; e. g., Whakanga

ons, e. g., tu ana ratou, a ia tanga

le; e. g., it would not be correct to say, Whaka

ing remark, a will precede the pronoun, e. g., E ki n

in French, before every substantive in the sentence; e. g., Ko te whakapono

e article; e. g., He tika rawa te he ki a ia

participle in English; e. g., Kei te noho, he is at the sitting

, should, in constructions like the above, be regarded as subst

n the articles we shall r

ned reader, are those, the meaning of which is so si

advantage over Hebrew; confusion often occurring in that language from the wa

is a scrof