L2 - 2.3 Likes and dislikes

How would you say i like walking?

• He kapai ki a rātou te hikoi

• He pai te hikoi ki au

• He pai ki a māua te hikoi

How would you say all of us like writing?

• He pai ki a ia te mahi tuhituho

• He pai te mahi tuhituhi ki a tātou

• He pai te mahi tuhituhi ki a mātou

How would you say we like bananas but they dont like bananas

• He pai ngā panana ki a mātou ki a rātou

• He pai ngā panana ki a mātou engari kaore ngā panana ki a rātou

• He pai te panana ki a tātou engari kaore i te pai te panana ki a mātou

He pai te mahi karanga ki au nā te mea he mahi rangatira

• I like doing karanga because is easy

• He/she likes karanga because its hard

• I like doing karanga because its chiefly

What does engari mean?

• Because

• But

• And then

I dont like the song

• Kaore i te mahi waiata

• Kaore i te pai te waiata ki au

• He kaore pai te waiata ki a tātou

What does nā te mea mean?

• But

• Because

• Perhaps

What does the kupu (mahi) do to the sentences we are learning right now?

• Lets the listener know you are talking about a noun

• Lets the listener know you are talking about the action of doing something (verb)

• Lets the listener know you are talking about making a statement

Kaore i te pai te mahi waiata ki a tātou

• I dont like singing

• They dont like singing

• We all dont like singing

They dont like singing but they like haka

• E hara i te pai te waiata ki a rātou engari he pai te haka

• Kaore e pai te waiata ki a mātou engari he pai te haka ki a rātou

• Kaore i te pai te mahi waiata ki a rātou engari he pai te mahi haka ki a rātou