Results for 'Tahi'
tahi - one, single
tahi - one
Tahi (i). 1. num. One; used in counting. Ka timata te tatau, “Ka tahi, ka rua, ka toru,” etc. (T. 49). Te tahi, the first; so the first month. No te tahi ka kitea a Matariki (Sh.T. 221). Tuatahi, first. Te tuatahi, ko Mango-huri-tapena tona ingoa (T. 60). Ka peratia ano nga korero me tera i patua ra i te tuatahi (T. 154).
Note.—In predicative or adjectival cases strict idiom requires the use of kotahi, q.v.
2. a. Single. Koanga, tangata tahi; ngahuru, puta noa (P.). Tahi is freely used in this sense to form compound words, e.g. apatahi, huatahi; these, where necessary, are treated separately. He uri ki-tahi no Pakatauia (P.).
3. Unique, unprecedented. E tahi te oha a to tangata!
4. Repeated, one … and the other. Me nga kotore huia te rakai ki tahi taha, ki tahi taha o te mahunga (Pi. 126, 3). ‖ tetahi.
5. ad. Together, simultaneously. Haere mai ra koe, ka haere tahi taua (T. 110). Ka tango tahi ki a ratou nei patu (T. 152). Ka mea te tutua, “Tatou tahi ka haere” (P. 103).
6. Then. Kua tika hoki te hapai i tana toki, tahi ra ka maka atu ki te taniwha ra (T. 110). Tahi ano te naomanga iho a Rua ki te rapoi kutu (T. 77). Ka puta noa atu ano, tahi ka uia mai e te tangata ra (T. 187). This use is restricted to poetry and animated narrative. ‖ katahi.
7. Throughout. Te hopukanga atu ki te toki: tahi mai ano i te ihu, a, te noko atu ana; tahi mai ano i te noko, a, te ihu atu ana; ka oti tetehi taha, tetehi taha (T. 50).
8. Altogether, quite. Kua rite tahi o maua nei hiahia (T. 131). Tineia te ahi; auahi tahi! (P. 91). E rua tahi nga mea i tahaetia mai e Tama-te-kapua (T. 70). Parau tahi to korero!
tātahi, a. Wide apart. Kia tatahi ou waewae (M. 115). He tatahi rawa nga rakau o te taiepa.
Williams Dictionary
Tahi (ii). 1. v.t. Sweep. Katahi ka tahia te kainga o Rehua e Rupe (T. 35). Tahi i te tahua and tahia te tahua, make peace. ‖ tahua (ii).
2. Trim, dress, smooth, timber with a tokai tarai. The example under tahi (i), 7, might perhaps stand here.
3. n. A wooden implement for cultivating. Tikina te tahi maire. ‖ tohi.
whakatahi, v.i. Withdraw from a place, quit.
tahitahi. 1. v.t. Scrape. E tahitahi ana ia i te riwai.
2. Touch lightly, graze. Kahore i tahitahi ki taku waewae; i pahemo.
3. ad. Within a little. Tahitahi tonu taua ka riri i mua ake nei.
4. n. Glacis, slope from the outer palisade of a pa. Tu ana i nga tahitahi ki Wharemako ra (M. 115).
Williams Dictionary
I kai au tahi me...
I ate with...
Simple sentences: past tense - i
I haere au ki to awa ki to hīkoi, i toro auto ki tōku hoa, ā, i kai tahi hoki me tōku whānau.
I went to the river to go walking, I visited my friend and I are together with my family.
Simple sentences: past tense - i
Ka kai tahi tātou i te hākari.
We will eat the feast together.
Simple sentences: future tense - ka
Ka tae mai rātou, ka noho tahi mātou ki te kōrero.
When they arrive, we will all sit and chat.
Simple sentences: future tense - ka
Me mahi tahi tātou.
Let's all work together.
Simple sentences: you should - me
Taihoa koe e kōrero, whakarongo ka tahi.
Don't speak yet, listen first.
Don't... just yet! - Taihoa... e
Mā te mahi tahi te kaupapa e tū ai.
Through cooperation the kaupapa will get off the ground or be realised.
Through (one thing/action), (a second thing) will be achieved. - Mā te... ka...; mā... e... ai
Ka taea rāua te mahi tahi.
They (two) are able to work together.
I am able... - Ka taea e...
I te tekau mā tahi karaka i te ata te karakia.
The service was at 11 am.
Past - specifying a particular time - i te
Ka puta mai te mate moe ki a Te Tahi.
Te Tahi became sleeopy.
Ka used to indicate the past - ka
Whakaae atu ana a Te Tahi.
Te Tahi agreed.
Away - atu
E rua ō waewae. Tahi, rua.
You've got two legs. One, two.
Numbering things - e rua, e toru...
Hei te tekau mā tahi karaka.
See you at eleven o'clock.
Telling time - kara
Ko te tekau mā tahi karaka.
It is eleven o'clock.
Telling time - kara
Tekau mā waru ngā pereti, a rua tekau mā tahi ā tātou kapu.
There are eighteen plates and we have twenty-one cups.
How many are there? - E hia? Tokohia?
Kāore rāua e taea te mahi tahi.
They are unable to work together.
To be unable - Kāore... taea...
E kore rānei e taka tahi kōrua ki te wai?
Will you not both fall together into the water?
Tekau mā waru ngā pereti, e rua tekau mā tahi ā tātou kapu.
There are eighteen plates, and we have twenty-one cups.
Taihoa kia oti, ka haere tahi ai tāua.
Wait until its finished then we’ll go together.
Ka rua tekau mā tahi tau tana pakeke ā tērā wiki.
Next week, she turns twenty-one.
Hei te tahi karaka.
See you at one o'clock.
Ka haere tahi ati anō i a rātou ētahi o te tangata whenua.
Some of the local people accompanied them.
Pau katoa ana te pō i a rāua e kanikani tahi ana.
They spent the whole night dancing together.
Kia maumahara koe, kei te ako tahi tātou.
Remember, we are all learning together.
Takihitu aku whakamoemiti ki a koe i te rā tahi (Psalm 119:164)
Seven times a day do I praise thee
= E kore rānei e taka tahi kōrua ki te wai?
Perhaps this is not the correct word?
Mahi noa, nāwai rā, ka puta mai te mate moe ki a Te Tahi.
They worked on, and then presently Te Tahi felt sleepy.
Tahi Rua Toru Whā Rima Ono Whitu Waru Iwa Tekau
So that's fine for counting on your fingers, but when we want to say how many *things* there are we need to add an e in front of the numbers between 2 and 9.
E rua tekau mā tahi ōku tau.
I'm twenty one years old.
Tekau maa tahi ngaa taangata purei hoka
Eleven people play soccer
He aha kōrua tē haere tahi mai ai?
Why didn't you come back together?
E toru tekau mā tahi ōna tau.
She is thirty-one years old.
Kei te mahi tahi a Hau rāua ko Haora.
Hau and Haora are working together.
Kāore anō kia kitea te rā me te awatea, nā te mea e piri tahi ana ngā mātua, kei te kōpū kē ngā tamariki nei e noho pipiri ana, ānō nei he kāpō rātou.
The sun and daylight had not yet been seen because the parents were pressed together; the children were huddled inside the womb, as though they were blind.
(I haere tahi mātau me aku hoa
We went with my friends
I mahi tahi tātou katoa.
We all worked together.
Tahi.
One.
Tekau mā Tahi.
Eleven.
Tekau mā tahi ngā tāngata purei hoka.
There are eleven people in a soccer team. (11 people play soccer.).
He ātaahua te ako tahi me koe.
Beautiful learning with you.
Tahi, rua, toru.
One, two, three.
Ka tahi, ka rua, ka toru.
One, two, three.
e rua tekau mā whitu = 27 kotahi rau e rima tekau mā tahi = 151 e ono mano e waru rau e toru tekau mā iwa = 6839
When counting things off, we say ‘ka hika rua, ka toru
E rua tekau meneti ki te tekau mā tahi (o ngā hāora).
Twenty minutes to eleven.
He harore rangi tahi.
A one day mushroom. (Proverb, a flash in the pan).
Kua haere tahi mai rātou
They have arrived together
Tekau mā tahi rātou e haere ana.
Eleven of them are going.
E kore tāua e mahi tahi i te taumahi ākuanei.
We won't be working on the project together anymore.
