tekau ma waru - eighteen
Tekau mā waru ngā pereti, a rua tekau mā tahi ā tātou kapu.There are eighteen plates and we have twenty-one cups.How many are there? - E hia? Tokohia?
Tekau mā waru ngā pereti, e rua tekau mā tahi ā tātou kapu.There are eighteen plates, and we have twenty-one cups.
E toru tekau mā waru ngā tāngata i runga, he tāne anake (Pōtatau 1991:8)There were thirty people on board (Tākitimu), they were all men only.
Whitu tekau mā waru tōna pakeke.She is seventy-eight years old.
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
Tekau mā waru te pakeke o tana tungāne.Her brother is 18.
Tekau mā waru.Eighteen.
Tekau mā waru rātou.There are eighteen of them.
