Section outline

  • Learning Outcomes:

    Students will be able to:

    • describe people’s characteristics
    • Give an opinion about how someone appears

    Te tuākiri ō te tangata: Personality Traits

    To describe a person’s personality we can use the following sentence pattern:

                               He (tangata) + (adjective) + (subject)


    He tangata manaaki tōku whaea            My mum is a caring person
    He tama whakatoi ia                                He is a cheeky boy
    He wahine tonotono ia                            She is a bossy woman.


    Give an opinion about how someone appears

    He āhua kōroua/kuia/rangatahi (s)        (s) is kind of elderly/young
    Te āhua nei…                                            it seems as though, it would appear that, 
    Ki ōku nei whakaaro…                              I think, in my opinion