Section outline

  • This session we will look at the uses of tenei,tena,tera. using these kupu to understand the usages when asking a question of an item/object.

    Achievement Objectives:

    2.2 communicate about possessions

    WALT(We are learning to)

    Tuhituhi: Use resources, for example, dictionaries and glossaries to experiment with some new language in writing and to check spelling

    Whakarongo: Get the gist of short oral texts that contain some unfamiliar language.

    Kōrero: Use generally appropriate pronunciation, stress, rhythm and intonation.

    Activity:

    we will look at the usage of tenei, tena, tera and the sentence structures relative to these words to help you ask questions in māori. I want you to write the questions and answers, then practice these with the words you have learnt from the classroom items task.

    Sentences structure

    Patai = Question

    To ask someone what item you have you would use:

    He aha tenei? = What is this?

    To reply you would use this sentence:

    He ______ tena = That is a __________.

    The blank space would be filled with the name of the item/object that you are identifying.

    When asking what is that object/item that your partner has you would use tena as seen below. 

    He aha tena?     = What is that?

    To answer you would swap it by replying using tenei as you can see below. 

    He _______ tenei. =This is a ________.

    Finally, when you want to ask what an item is away from the both of you, you would ask the question below.

    He aha tera?     = What is that over there?

    To answer you would not use tenei and tena as you dont possess this so you would use Tera as below.

    He _______ tera. = That over there is a __________.