How many times do you go to town in a week? |
E Ha on haerenga ki te taone i te wiki? |
How often have you been to Otaki? Only once. |
Ka tuahia koe ki Otaki? Ka tuakotahi. |
I have told him many times to go to his work; but he is not gone yet. |
He maha aim kianga atu ki a ia kia haere ki te mahi; heoi kahore ano kia haere. |
How often is James to take the medicine? Three times a day. |
Kia tua-hia kainga a Hemi i te rongoa? Kia tua-toru i te ra kotahi. |
The mail goes to Turanga once in two weeks; but it goes twice a week to Ahuriri. |
Kia takirua wild ka haere te meera ki Turanga; takirua ia haerenga ki Ahuriri i te wiki kotahi.page 52 |
I have often travelled by that road. |
Kua malia [unclear: ok] haerenga i tena ara. |
John will often go to see his father. |
Tera e [unclear: mahe] nga hokihokinga o Hoani kia kite i tona matua. |
Paul comes here very seldom. |
Takitahi rawa [unclear: t] haerenga mai o Paora ki konei. |
Paul does not come often. |
Kahore e maha [unclear: nga] haerenga mai o Paora. |
Sometimes I sleep there; sometimes I come back here to sleep. |
He [unclear: wa] ano, ka moe ahau ki reira; he [unclear: wa] ano ka hoki mai ahau ki konei moe ai. |
He lives at Wairarapa, but I see him in town some-times. |
Kei Wairarapa tona kaainga; otira e kitea [unclear: an] ano e au i te taone i etahi wa. |
They live on potatoes [unclear: and] kumara; [unclear: and] now an then they kill a pig. |
To ratou oranga, he riwai, [unclear: h] kumara; a, he wa ano, ka patua e ratou he poaka. |
They live inland; but they go now and then to [unclear: the] sea-side to cat fish. |
Kei uta to ratou kaainga; otira, [unclear: he] wa ano, ka haere ratou ki tatahi ki te kai ika. |
I never saw Potatau when I was living at [unclear: Waikato] |
Kihai rawa ahau i kite i a Potatau i a au e noho ana [unclear: b] Waikato. |
George went in the "Luna." He has never been [unclear: on] board a steamer before. |
I haere a Hori i runga i a [unclear: te] "Luna." Kahore ano ia kia eke ki runga lei te [unclear: time] mua. |
I never slept last night; because John and Jam never left off making a noise all night. |
Kihai rawa ahau i moe i tenei po; no te mea kihai rawa i [unclear: mutum] te turituri o Hoani rawa ko Hemi i te roanga o te po.page 53 |
Those men came to bring some potatoes yesterday. They will come again to-day. |
I tae mai ana tangata ki te man riwai mai inanahi. Ka hoki mai ano aianei. |
"Did you call John?" "Yes; but he didnot come." "Call him again." |
"I karangatia ranei e koe a Hoani?" |
"Ae; otira kihai i haere mai," |
"Karangatia ano." |
Peter is always at work. |
Kei te mahi tonu a Pita i nga wa katoa. |
John always comes to see me whenever he comes to town. |
Haere tonu mai ai a Hoani kia kite i a, au i ona taenga katoatanga mai ki te taone. |
When my father was ill, George was always kind to him. |
I te matenga o toku papa, he ataiohai tonu ta Hori ki a ia. |