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tukua - let go! to be released (tuku + passive suffix -a)

Tukua ki te nūpepa!
Send it to the newspaper!
Commands using the passive - Tāpirihia, Tīkina...

Ka tukua te kurī e au.
The dog was released by me.
Passive sentences - tikina...

I a au e taiohi ana, i tukua aku makawe kia tupu. I āhua roa tonu.
When I was a teenager, I let my hair grow. It got quite long.
When I was young - I a e tamariki ana

Kāore tēnei e tukua kia haere e ia.
She won't let this one go.
Negating passive sentences - Kāore... e...

Kaua reta e tukua ki te nūpepra!
Don't send your letter to the newspaper!
Negative passive commands (Don't be...) - Kaua... e...

Tukua te wairua kia rere ki ngā taumata.
Allow one's spirit to exercise its potential.
Kia for second verb after a passive - kia

Kāti, tukua mai ki Hikurangi, ki te maunga e tauria i te huka.
Enough! Let him come hither to Hikurangi, to the mountain crowned with snow.

#116: I will write the letter with the pen
#155: We are changing our state to being not here
#166: Nominaliztion
#127: There are no people at your party
#25: I love the woman
#163: The doctor made me well
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