Grammar

Let's revise our grammer for this week.

We've practiced this many times over but just to make sure - how do you greet one person in Māori? Tēnā   .

Once you have greeted a person you usually ask 'How are you?' How do you say this in Māori? 'Kei te   koe?'

To say farewell to someone who is leaving we say? '   '.

To say farewell to someone who is staying, using the word 'noho', we say? '   .'

Haere rā is the most common farewell in Māori however another way of saying 'See you later' is 'Ka   anō'

A good way of saying goodbye to someone on the phone is '   .'

There are other ways of saying farewell. What's the missing word in the following farewell? 'Noho   rā.'

What about this varition: what's the missing word? '   konei rā.'

Which word is missing in the following farewell... 'Hei   rā.'

And when you want to say 'You and I will see each other again', what three words go at the front of this sentence... '   tāua i a tāua.'

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