Results for 'kete'
kete - basket, kit
Kete, n. 1. Basket made of strips of flax, etc. E toru tekau o nga kete tawatawa (T. 143).
2. Belly of a net. Kete pahao, kete tihao, shrimp net.
3. A parbuckle of plaited supplejack, about 1 ft. wide and 20 ft. long, passed under a log in order to roll it along the ground.
4. fig. Womb. Ka ruru ki te kete ra (M. 165).
5. A form of incantation in which a kete was used. Ka hoatu i te oranga mo ratou, ko te kete, ko te ahi, ko te taumata.—Ka rangā te kete: “Rangaranga ra taku kete,” etc. (T. 88). The same use appears in Uvea. Kete pure, a basket used by the tohunga in the ceremonies above.
kekete = kete, 3. Ki te whakamaunga kekete, kekete mai te kekete (S. 115).
Williams Dictionary
Ka uta au i ngā kākahu ki te kete kākahu.
I will load the clothes into the clothes basket
Simple sentences: future tense - ka
Ka tiki au i te kete kākahu.
I will fetch the clothes basket.
Simple sentences: future tense - ka
Nāku tēnei kete.
This kit is mine.
Past agent emphatic - nā - agent emphatic
Nā te kōtiro te kete ātaahua i raranga.
It was the girl who wove the beautiful basket.
Past agent emphatic - nā - agent emphatic
Māu te kete kākahu e wehewehe.
You will sort the clothes basket.
Future agent emphatic - māku
Tatari i te kete!
Wait at the gate!
Commands without e or the passive - Homai! Whakarongo!
Kāhore tēnei kete i rarangatia ki te raupō.
This kit was not woven out of bulrushes.
Passive sentences - tikina...
Ehara māku e taki te karakia, nā te mea he iti taku kete pāpaku taku kete karakia.
I will not be the one to recite the prayer because my kete is shallow.
Conjunctions - but - engari
Tīmata ana ki te raranga i tana kete harakeke.
She is starting to make a flax kit.
Verbs that take 'i' (kite, etc) - i
Nāku te kete nei.
This kit is mine.
Established possession - nāku, nōku...
Ahakoa he iti kete, he iti nā te aroha.
It is the thought that counts.
Kia ako, kia tapurihia itahi atu o ngā pūkenga mātaurangahau i tō ake kete.
To learn, and to add other new knowledge skills to your own kete.
E hia ngā ika kei roto i tōu kete?
How many fish are in your kete?
Ka tiki au i te kete kākahu.
I will fetch the clothes basket.
E kore e roa kua tīmata ki te raranga i tana kete.
It will not be long before she has started to make her kit.
Ka uta au i ngā kākahu ki te kete kākahu.
I will load the clothes into the clothes basket.
Inā poroa e ahau te taura, māua e hopu mai te kete.
When I cut the rope, you catch the basket.
Ka raranga ngā kuia i ngā kete.
The old women will weave the bags.
Āku kete.
My baskets.
