tekau ma whitu - seventeen
Kua eke atu ia ki ngā taumata o te waru tekau mā whitu tau.She has reached the age of eighty seven years.Simple sentences: past completed tense - kua
E ono rau e rua tekau mā whitu ngā tamariki i te kura.There are 627 children at the school
Kei te waiata ngā tamariki ono rau rua tekau mā whitu i te kura.And we don't need an e.
Tekau mā whitu.Seventeen.
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 = 6839When counting things off, we say ‘ka tahi, ka rua, ka toru
