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Results for 'āhuatanga'

āhuatanga - property, characteristic, feature, circumstance (āhua + nominal suffix -tanga)

āhuatanga, n. Likeness. Ka whakaahuatia hoki ahau ki to te manu ahuatanga (T. 18).

Williams Dictionary

Kua hōhā au ki tēnei āhuatanga.
I'm sick (bored) of this carry on.
Simple sentences: past completed tense - kua

Koirā tētahi o ōna āhuatanga pai.
That's one of his good characteristics.

He weriweri tērā āhuatanga.
That's an ugly situation.

Ko tētahi āhuatanga whakaohorere ki te ākonga reo Māori, ko te akoranga nei, ehara noa te wātū i te "ka".
A common confusion for Māori language learners is that the verb "ka" is not only used for future tense.

Ngā āhuatanga katoa o tēnei take.
All the aspects of this issue.

E tae ai tēnei take te whakatau, me mātua mōhio ngā āhuatanga katoa.
In order for this issue to be decided, one must first know everything that relates to it.

#146: The food is for the hangi
#23: The children are running from the house to the school
#84: Why is the baby sleeping?
#184: here, there by you with ko...
#82: Why will their dog eat our cat's food?
#141: In the time of the ancestors
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