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Kupu Māori

Total questions: 30

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Kei te hikoi au. What does this mean?

a)

I am walking.

b)

I was running.

c)

I will move.

d)

Moving is cool.

2.

What does this sentence say? Kei te pehea mātou?

a)

What are you doing?

b)

How are you all?

c)

How are we all (including the speaker)

d)

How are we (but not you)?

3.

What does this sentence say? I pehea ia?

a)

What are you all doing?

b)

How was he/she?

c)

How were we all?

d)

How are they?

4.

Which two sentences mean the same?

a)

Kei te pōuri koe?

b)

E pōuri ana koe?

c)

Ka pōuri koe?

d)

Kua pōuri koe?

5.

Kāore tāua i te hikoi. What does this mean?

a)

They are not walking.

b)

You are not running.

c)

We (you and I) are not walking.

d)

We (use 3) are not walking.

6.

What sentence says, I am going to the toilet.

a)

Kei te hikoi au ki te kihini.

b)

Kei te haere au ki te pakuwhare

c)

E haere ana au ki te wharepaku.

d)

Kei te haere koe ki te wharepaku.

7.

He aha tēnei rerenga? Kāore au e kanikani.

a)

I will not dance.

b)

I am not dancing.

c)

you're not dancing.

d)

I didn't dance.

8.

What number says 509

a)

E rima rau mā iwa.

b)

Rima tekau mā iwa.

c)

Tokorima rau mā iwa.

d)

E rima rau kore tekau ma iwa.

9.

What word is missing for, sit on the mat/carpet.

E (a)   ki te whariki.

10.

Which of these objects would be less commonly found in a classroom?

a)

Muku

b)

Pouaka Whakaata

c)

Peita

d)

Pouaka makariri

11.

Which of these is not a fruit.

a)

Ipu

b)

Karaka

c)

Panana

d)

Parakipere

12.

Which sentence means look this way, listen this way.

a)

Kōrero mai, titiro mai

b)

Rongo mai, kōrero mai

c)

Titiro mai, whakarongo mai.

d)

Kōrero mai, whakarongo mai.

13.

Where is this person from? Nō Aotearoa au.

a)

Hamilton

b)

New Zealand

c)

Auckland

d)

Wellington

14.

Who is ia?

a)

Me

b)

You

c)

Him/her

d)

Us

15.

Who is rāua?

a)

You two

b)

Those two

c)

Us two

16.

If you said, E tū tātou.. who would have to stand?

a)

The people you are talking to.

b)

Only the kids.

c)

Only the people in front of you.

d)

Everybody including you.

17.

'Rarangi ki waho'...means?

a)

Line up inside.

b)

Line up outside.

c)

Go outside.

d)

Come outside.

18.

I pehea tō kōrua rā? means what?

a)

How was your (you 2) day?

b)

How was your day?

c)

What is your (you two) day going?

d)

How are those two?

19.

What sentence says ' look at the TV'

a)

Whakarongo ki te pouaka whakaata

b)

Tirohia ki te pouaka whakaata

c)

TItiro ki te pouaka whakaata

d)

Hurihia ki te pouaka.

20.

Tikina means to fetch.. what sentence says, Fetch your (3 + people) books.

a)

Tīkina tā koutou pānui.

b)

Tīkina ā koutou pukapuka.

c)

Tīkina ā koutou tepu.

d)

Tīkina tā koutou turu.

21.

Tokohia ngā wahine?

a)

E waru ngā wahine

b)

Tokowhitu ngā wahine

c)

Tokowaru ngā wahine

d)

e iwi ngā wahine.

22.

Tokohia ngā kaimahi?

a)

Kotahi te kaimahi

b)

Tokotahi ngā kaimahi

c)

Tokotahi te kaimahi

d)

kotahi ngā kaimahi

23.

E hia ngā hū?

a)

Tekau ma rooa

b)

tokotekau ma rua ngā hū

c)

E tekau ma rua ngā hū?

d)

Tekau ma rua ngā hū.

24.

e hia ngā rorohiko?

a)

Ono rorohiko

b)

Tokoono rorohiko

c)

E ono ngā rorohiko

d)

E rima rorohiko

25.

Whakapākehatia tē rerenga nei. Kei te kai tāku kurī i te ngeru.

a)

My dogs are eating the bone.

b)

My dog is eating the cat.

c)

The cat is eating the dog.

d)

The dog is eating the cat.

26.

Translate this. My worker is sleeping.

a)

Kei te moe tāku kaimahi.

b)

He kaimahi moe tēnei.

c)

Mā wai te mahi?

d)

Kei te moe te kaimahi.

27.

Translate this. Their (3+) car is broken.

a)

Kua paru tō mātou motokā.

b)

Kei te pakaru tā rātou motokā.

c)

He waka pakaru tērā.

d)

Kua pakaru tō rātou motokā.

28.

Write this sentence. Those two are running to the gym.

(a)  

29.

Reorganise this sentence so it's correct. wai ngeru tā ka rātou inu i.

(a)  

30.

How do you write, 'Those are long busses over there'.

(a)