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hākari - feast

Hākari. 1. n. Gift, present.

2. Entertainment, feast. Ka tukua te hakari a nga iwi a Tuhuke (W. v, 23).

3. High wooden framework on which food was placed at a feast (Tr. xiii, 13).

4. Roe of a fish.

5. Yolk of an egg.

6. Paphia intermedia and Dosinia subrosea, bivalve molluscs.

7. v.t. Adorn, dress the hair. Kia hakaritia te mahunga, katahi ka tau tena ingoa Te Koukou.—Katahi ka tahuri te tangata ra, a Kahu, ki te hakari i tana tamahine.

whakahakari, v.i. Become roe. Koia ano tenei e whakahakari nei i roto i te mango (I. 34).

Williams Dictionary

I te mutunga o te pōwhiri, ka tū te hākari.
At the end of the welcome, a feast was held.
Simple sentences: past tense - i te

Ka kai tahi tātou i te hākari.
We will eat the feast together.
Simple sentences: future tense - ka

I kainga katoatia te hākari.
The feast was all eaten up.
Passive sentences - tikina...

Ka haere mai rātou ki te kāinga hei kai i te hākari.
They will come to the house to eat at the feast.

Kua takoto te tikanga kia tukuna atu tetahi tangata herehere ki a rātou i te hākari.
The custom had been established that one prisoner should be released to them at the feast.

Mō tēhea hākari, Tamahae?
For which wedding feast, Tamahae?

He hakari kei runga i te tēpu.
There's a feast on the table.

E pā, me tīmata te whakamōmona i ngā poaka ināianei, kia whai kai ai mō te hākari.
for the feast Friend, fattening the pigs should begin now, so that there will be enough food for the feast.

#151: That is the house where I grew up (i... ai)

#174: You cat is too fat

#103: The mother is watching the children who are not playing

#111: Right, let's go then!

#65: Brian is a father, Brian is my father

#196: Kia... ai with passives

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