Results for 'kūmara'
kūmara - kūmara, sweet potato
Kūmara, n. Ipomoea batatas, sweet potato. The names of a large number of varieties are recorded. Ka koa nga tama a Paoa ki a ia, no te mea ka tae atu hei karakia i a raua mara kumara (T. 199).
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Kumara—kai—torouka, n. Olearia furfuraeea, a shrub.
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Ko te kūmara tāku tūmomo huawhenua pai rawa.
Kumara is my favourite type of vegetable.
Identity sentences - ko...
Kei te kai rāua i ngā kūmara.
They are eating the kūmara.
Simple sentences: present tense with a verb - kei te
I whakatō i ētehi kai māori pērā i te kūmara me te kōkihi.
We planted native food like kūmara and native spinach.
Simple sentences: past tense - i
Nā Maru te kūmara i whakatipu.
It was Maru grew the kumara.
Past agent emphatic - nā - agent emphatic
Nāu ngā kūmara i waru.
You were the one who peeled the kūmera.
Past agent emphatic - nā - agent emphatic
Kei roto ngā kūmara i te umu.
The kumara are in the oven.
In, on, by, under... - kei runga...
E mea ana au ki te hauhake i aku kūmara āpōpō. Heoi anō, ki te ua, ka waiho pea mō tērā wiki.
I'm intending to dig up my kūmara tomorrow. However, if it rains, I'll probably leave it ‘til next week.
Conjunctions - on the other hand, however - heoi anō
Tērā a Tūrongo kei te tatari kia hauhaketia tana kūmara, ā, kia mene mai i a ia ngā kai pērā i a Whatihua, ka karanga ai a ia kia haria mai a Rua-pū-tahanga.
Meanwhile Tūrongo was waiting for his sweet potatoes to be harvested, so that he would have food stored up like Whatihua, at which point he would send for Rua-pū-tahanga.
He kai pai te kūmara.
Kumara is good food.
E tipu ana te kūmara ki Ōtaki.
Kūmara are growing at Ōtaki.
He hua whenua te kūmara.
The kūmera is a root vegetable.
Hei kai mā ngā manuhiri ēnei kūmara
These kūmara will be, or will serve as food for the guests.
Naa ngaa kau, naa ngaa aha i kai ngaa kuumara?
the(pl) kumara The cows and what ate the kumaras?
I whakatipu a Maru i te kūmara.
Maru grew the kūmara.
Kei te kai a Rangi i ngā kūmara.
Rangi is eating the kūmera.
I kainga otatia ngā kūmara.
The kūmara were eaten raw.
(I whakatoe ia i aua kūmara ki ana rua kūmara
He left those kūmara in his kūmara pits
Ka tīmata te kuia nei ki.te tatau i āna kūmara tekau, kia mōhio ai ia kei reira tonu tana pūkai kūmara.
After a while she began counting her ten kūmara; this was a way of checking that the pile of kūmara was still there.
