Results for 'hokomaha'
Ehara tēnei i te hokomaha.
This is not a supermarket.
Negations of identity sentences - ehara...
Kei te haere ia ki te hokomaha hoko kai ai.
He's going to the supermarket to buy food.
Simple sentences: present tense with a verb - kei te
Ka haere au ki te hokomaha ākuanei.
I will be going to the supermarket soon.
Simple sentences: future tense - ka
Me haere au ki te whare hokomaha.
I'd better go to the supermarket.
Simple sentences: you should - me
Nō te hokomaha.
From the supermarket.
Belonging to a place - nō
Ka haere māua ko Rangi ki te hokomaha tiki ai.
Rangi and I are going to the supermarket to shop.
The reason for an action - ...ai.
Kei te hokomaha.
At the supermarket.
Locatives (at the moment, something is somewhere) - kei te
Kāore tātou e haere ki te hokomaha ki te hoko i ngā hēki.
We are not going to the supermarket to buy eggs.
Negations of the future (I will not go) - Kāore... e...
Kei te haere māua ki te hokomaha. Kei te hia haere mai kōrua?
We're going to the supermarket. Do you want to come?
Using 'ki' to indicate direction towards something - ki
Kei te haere ia ki te hokomaha ki te hoko i ngā kai.
He's going to the supermarket to buy food.
Using 'ki' to indicate direction towards something - ki
Kei te hokomaha / Kei waho / Kei Kaitāia
She’s at the supermarket / She’s outside / She’s in Kaitāia.
Kei te haere ahau ki te hokomaha ki te hoko kai.
I am going to the supermarket to buy food.
Ka haere tātou ki te hokomaha ki te hoko i ngā hēki.
We are going to the supermarket to buy the eggs.
I haere ahau ki te hokomaha, I hoko kai ai.
I am going to the supermarket in order to buy food.
Kei te haere atu ahai ki te hokomaha hei hoko kai.
But we can also add ai at the end.
Kei te haere atu ahau ki te hokomaha hoko kai ai.
I am going to the supermarket in order to buy food.
Kei te haere atu ki te hokomaha ki te hoko kai.
I am going to the supermarket *to* by food.
Kei te haere ahau ki to hokomaha hoko ai i te kai.
I am going to the supermarket to buy food.
Kei te haere ahau ki te hokomaha hoko ai i te kai mā ōku mātua.
I am going to the supermarket to buy food for my parents.
Kei te haere atu ahau ki te hokomaha ki te hoko kai.
And I can use ai to say that the reason I am going to the supermarket is to buy food.
Kei te haere atu au ki te hokomaha kia hoko kai ai ia.
I am going to the supermarket in order that she can buy food.
Kei te haere ahau ki te hokomaha kia hokona ai te kai.
Again, this uses as a passive.
Kei te haere atu au ki te hokomaha hei hoko kai.
I am going to the shops in order to buy food.
I haere au ki te hokomaha hei tangata hoko kai.
I went to the supermarket as the person buying food, or in the role or function of a food buyer.
Nā Rangi i haere atu ki te hokomaha.
It was Rangi who went to the supermarket.
Nā te hoko kai ahau e haere nei ki te hokomaha.
I am going to the supermarket because of the food buying.
Ka haere ahau ki te hokomaha a tērā wiki.
I will go to the supermarket next week.
Hei tērā wiki ka haere ai au ki te hokomaha.
It will be next week that I will go to the supermarket.
Mā te hoko kai ahau e haere atu ai ki te hokomaha.
It is because of the buying of food that I will go to the supermarket.
Ki te hokomaha e taraiwa ai ahau.
It will be to the supermarket that I will drive.
I taraiwa a Rangi ki te hokomaha kia hoko kai ai ia.
Rangi drove to the supermarket to buy food.
Kei te hokomaha ia.
She’s at the supermarket.
I muri i tērā, ka haere ki te hokomaha.
After that, I went to the supermarket.
Kāore koe i te hokomaha.
You are not at the supermarket.
Kei te hokomaha ahau.
I am at the supermarket.
Kei te oma ahau
So how does Kei te hokomaha ahau mean I am at the supermarket?
Kei te hokomaha ahau
We could translate this as
Kei te hokomaha tō māua māmā.
Our mother (not yours) is at the supermarket.
I te hokomaha tō māua māmā.
Our mother (not yours) was at the supermarket.
Āe, taki haere tātou, kotahi atu ki te hokomaha.
Yes, let's be off, straight to the supermarket.
Hei te hokomaha tō māua māmā.
Our mother (not yours) will be at the supermarket.
Kei te haere au ki te hokomaha.
I'm going to the supermarket.
I haere ahau ki te hokomaha, kātahi ka hoko ahau i te kai.
I went to the supermarket, and then I bought the food.
Ka haere ahau ki te hokomaha, kātahi ka hoko ahau i te kai.
I will go to the supermarket, and then I will buy the food.
