Term 1 Week 8

KO WAI? ASKING WHO?

When asking “who” the sentence structure is "Ko wai te (noun)?"

Ko wai te whaea?           Who is the mother?     Ko Aroha te whaea.       Aroha is the mother

Ko wai te matua?        Who is the father?       Ko Heemi te matua.       Heemi is the father

The question word in this sentence is ‘wai’. To answer the question we just replace ‘wai’ with the word needed to answer the question (see example above).

Ko te whānau Hōhepa

Hei Mahi 1: From the pictures above, answer these questions in te reo Māori.

1. Ko wai te kuia?
2. Ko wai te mātāmua?
3. Ko wai te koroua?
4. Ko wai te tamāhine?                                  
5. Ko wai te pōtiki?
6. Ko wai te tamaiti tuatoru?
7. Ko wai te whaea?
8. Ko wai te tuakana o Te Awarangi?

Joining two names together

When we join two names we use ‘rāua ko’ for ‘and’ 

E.g. Ko John rāua ko Marama aku mātua

Joining  three or more names together

When we join three or more names we use ‘rātou ko’ for ‘and’. This phrase goes between the first two names only, and then we just use ‘ko’ in front of the other names. eg. Ko Tui rātou ko Alice, ko Jeremy, ko Mata ngā tamariki

1. Ko wai ngā mātua?
2. Ko wai ngā  teina o Rōpata?