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    Learning outcomes

    This week you will learn:

    • how to say where someone was born
    • where a person grew up 
    • where they come from originally

    Sentence patterns:

    Birth year & place:     I whānau mai (person)  i te tau (year) i (place) 

                                           I whānau mai ahau i te tau 1990 i Tāmaki Makaurau.        I was born in the year 1990 in Auckland 

    Where you grew up:  I tipu ake (person) i (place)

                                          I tipu ake ahau i Ahitereiria.                                                  I grew up in Australia

    Nō (iwi or place of ancestors origin) person                         

                                          Nō Ngātikahungnu ahau                                                       I am from Ngāti Kahungnu