Title: First Lessons in Maori

Author: W. L. Williams

Publication details: Whitcombe and Tombs Limited, 1930, Auckland

Part of: New Zealand Texts Collection

This text is the subject of: Victoria University of Wellington Library Catalogue

License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 New Zealand Licence

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VIII.

1. Whose are those two books? 2. Does not that dog belong to Tara? 3. Is there not a house by the side of that river? 4. Where is the rope of this canoe? 5. What is the name of Horo's child? 6. Which is Kaihau's house? 7. Which of these houses is Kupe's? 8. Is Turi a brother of Hineko's? 9. Are those birds for Hineko's elder sister, Hera? 10. Paerau is an elder brother of mine. 11. Paerau is not an elder brother of mine. 12. Paerau is not my elder brother. 13. Is not Paerau page 75 an elder brother of his? 14. What is [the name of] that village? 15. What is the name of their daughter?

1. Mo wai ena waka e rua? 2. Mo Kuiwai ranei raua ko tana tama, ko Horo aua waka e rua? 3. Na wai tena kuri? 4. Na te teina ranei o Paerau taua kuri? 5. Kei hea te hoe o tou waka hou? 6. Kahore ranei i konei inanahi te hoe o tou waka hou? 7. Ko wai tera? 8. Ko wai tona ingoa? 9. Ko te pāpā ranei tera o Kuiwai? 10. Ko Titore ranei tona ingoa? 11. Ko tehea o enei tou whare? 12. Ko tehea tou o enei whare e toru? 13. I hea a Heke inanahi? 14. Hei Tauranga ranei ia apopo? 15. Kahore ranei ia i konei inanahi? 16. Kahore ranei ia i Maketu inaianei? 17. Kahore ranei he tamariki i roto i tera whare? 18. Ko hea tera maunga?