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?
Whitu tekau mā waru tōna pakeke.She is seventy-eight years old.
Tekau mā waru te pakeke o tana tungāne.Her brother is 18.
Tekau mā waru.Eighteen.