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rima - five

rima - five

Rima, num. Five. Nowhea to koutou tokorima? (T. 10). Te rima, the fifth month.

Note.—In most of the Polynesian dialects the same word serves for five and hand; rima appears in the latter sense in the word kaurimarima.

‖ ringa.

Williams Dictionary

Kua rima ōna tau.
She has reached five years.
Simple sentences: past completed tense - kua

Kāore aku tamariki, engari he tokomaha āku irāmutu, tekau mā rima rātou.
I don't have any kids, but I have many nieces and nephews, there are fifteen of them.
Conjunctions - but - engari

I tērā tau ka rima tekau ia.
He will be fifty next birthday.
Last week, last month, last year - tērā

E rima ngā pukapuka.
There are five books.
Numbering things - e rua, e toru...

Ko te rima karaka i te ahiahi.
5 o'clock in the afternoon.
Telling time - kara

Hei te rima karaka.
See you at five o'clock.
Telling time - kara

E rima meneti e toe ana.
There are five minutes remaining.
Telling time - kara

Āe, i te rima karaka.
Yes, at 5 o'clock.
Telling time - kara

Tenau mā rima ngā whare.
There are fifteen houses.
Counting over ten -

E ono ngā pune, e rima ngā pāoka.
Six spoons and five forks.
How many are there? - E hia? Tokohia?

Kāore e rima ngā pukapuka.
There are not five books.
Negating counting things - Kāore e...

Ki tōku whakaaro, e rima tekau aua kāinga.
In my estimation, there are fifty of those settlements.

e rima mano ‘5000.
Numbers from 1 to 9999 are made up by combining these patterns:

Te tēpu nei ea ana mō te rima tāra.
This table is worth five dollars.

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 rima ngā tīhate
Five t-shirts

E rima tekau mā whā tōna pakeke.
She is fifty-four years old.

Rima meneti pāhi i te ono karaka.
Five past six o’clock.

E rima ngā rīngi koura.
Five golden rings.

Rua tekau mā rima meneti ki te whitu karaka te tāima.
It is twenty-five to seven.

E rima ngā iwi e noho mai nei i te Tai Tokerau.
There are five tribes who live in Northland.

E rima miriona, rua rau ono tekau mā waru mano, whitu rau rima tekau mā whā ngā tāngata kei Aotearoa.
There are 5,268,754 people in new Zealand

Ko te tokomaha o ngā tāngata me te mea e rima mano.
The number of people was about five thousand.

Te rima ngā kura, rua wiki te roa o ia kura.
There are five schools - each school is two weeks long.

Nō te rima karaka au i kai ai.
I ate at five o’clock.

Kua noho mai ia ki Tāmaki Makaurau mō ngā tau e rima.
She has been living in Auckland for five years.

Rima.
Five.

Tekau mā rima.
Fifteen.

Tekau mā rima ngā whare.
There are fifteen houses.

Kua rima tau tōna pakeke.
She has reached five years.

Kua rima tau ia i nāianei.
She has now reached five years.

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 tahi, ka rua, ka toru

Nā wai tēnei rima tekau heneti?
Whose is this 50 cents?

E rima ngā waka o Hēmi.
Hēmi has five cars.

Kia tekau mā rima mita te roa o te taura.
Let the length of the rope be 15 metres.

Hōmai kia rima ngā pene.
Give me five pens.

Kua rere atu ngā manu e rima.
The five birds have flown away.

E ono ngā pune, e rima ngā paoka.
Six spoons and five forks.

E whitu miriona e rua rau e whā tekau mā rima mano e waru tekau mā ono
Seven million, two hundred and forty-five thousand, and eighty-six.

Tekau mā rima ngā whare i tōku kāinga.
There are fifteen houses in my village.

#96: Rangi is reading. The book is being read.
#13: That person is going
#177: The really happy fish will indeed return
#153: The dog has changed to a state of being dead
#165: The person who causes things to come and go
#142: N is used for emphasis
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