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WorksheetsSalutations & Numbers
Total questions: 45
Worksheet time: 34mins
How would you say this number in Māori? 1972
Kotahi mano, waru tekau mā waru
Kotahi mano, iwa rau, whitu tekau mā rua
E iwa rau, rua tekau mā whitu
E iwa rau, whitu tekau mā rua
Of the following salutations/greetings, which is one is not like the others?
Ata mārie
Mōrena
Mauri ora ki a koe i tēnei ata !!
Pō mārie
Tokohia ngā wāhine?
Toko maha ngā wāhine
Tokotahi te wahine
Kotahi te wahine
Ehara te wahine, he kōtiro kē
E hia ngā motokā?
He tino tere ngā motokā !!
E rua ngā motokā
Kei runga i te race track i ēnei motokā
Pita asks Ata how she is, what is the correct response? (there are 2 corrects answers)
Ko Rūaumoko ahau
Kei te pukuriri au
He tino wera ahau
E pukuriri ana ahau
Tokohia ngā tāne e tū ana
(a)
Tokohia ngā tāngata?
(a)
In Te Taitokerau, what is a koro?
A koroua
Your throat
A kaumatua
A young fulla
Which of these is not like the others?
Mā te wā
Hei konā rā
Tēnā kourua
Noho ake rā
Which one of these means to come first?
Ko te mātāmua
Tuatahi
Ko au te toa
Kotahi
E hia ngā hēki?
Kotahi te kuri
E ono ngā mea
E rima ngā hēki
Tokohia ngā hōiho?
Toko whā ngā hōiho
Toko toru ngā hōiho
E rua ngā hōiho
E whā ngā hōiho
Can 'kia ora' be used outside of a salutation?
Āe
Kao
If 'kia ora' is used outside of the context of a salutation/greeting,
what would be an example of that?
(there is more than 1 correct answer)
When being facetious; 'aahh kia ora' with eyes rolling !!
In a karanga, on the mahau, at the marae, at a tangihanga
To indicate ones support/tautoko; 'āe ra, kia ora, kia ora'
Tokohia ngā tāngata
Kotahi te whare
E toru ngā matapihi
Tokorua ngā tāngata
Tokomaha ngā tāngata
Which Rangatira of the North coined this salutation?
'astonishing good health'
Tā Kingi Ihaka nō Te Aupōuri
Malcom Peri nō Pawarenga
Pā Tate nō te Hokianga
Eparaima Te Paa nō Ahiparapara
If I ask you 'e pēhea ana koe?'
What am I asking you?
What are you?
What's your name?
How are you?
Where are you?
If I ask you 'ko wai tō ingoa?'
What am I asking you?
What's your mahi?
What's your name?
Where are you from?
What's your problem?
If I said to you 'e ora tonu ana ahau'
What am I saying?
I'm really good
Same same taku ora :)
I'm still alive
I'm still as tough as nails
What is the translation of 1988
Kotahi rau, iwa mano, waru tekau mā waru
Kotahi mano, iwa rau, waru tekau mā waru
Kotahi mano, iwa mano kē, waru tekau mā waru
I ngā wā o mua
E hia ngā āpōrō kākāriki?
E hia ngā manu e rere ana i te rangi?
How would you say 1st, 2nd & 3rd?
Tokohia ngā wāhine?
Tokohia ngā pēpi?
The front two are talking about which grouping?
Tātou
Koutou
Rātou
You are the lady with the pink top on,
what is the correct pronoun for this group?
Koutou
Tātou
Mātou
You are the lady with the brown hair,
what is the correct pronoun to apply here?
Ia
Koe
Taku tau pūmau
Whakapākehātia tēnei ... e pukumahi ana ahau !!
I am āhua busy
I am very
peeved off
I am very busy
I am very hōhā
Which is te tangi o te kāinga that we should use in the North?
E .... ana
Kei te
Which is salutation is grammatically correct?
Kia ora whānau
Kia ora e te whānau
In a work capacity, which of the following is not an appropriate email sign off?
Noho ora mai
Nāku noa nā
Kia pai tō mutunga wiki
Chur doi
Scribing an email, can you use tēnā tātou as your greeting?
Āe, e pai ana
Kahore, e hē ana
In the North, what is the term we use for a young girl?
Kōtiro
Tamāhine
Kō
Hine
If I ask you; nō hea koe?
What am I wanting to know?
What's your name?
How are you?
Where are you from?
What do you want?
If my reply to your question is; nō Ahipara ahau,
what am I telling you?
I am Ahipara
Ahipara is my name
I've just come from Ahipara
I'm from Ahipara
If my greeting is; tēnā kourua
how many people am I greeting?
Many
Two
Three
One
What is the mantle someone who has been knighted is afforded?
Rangatira
Whatukura
Tā
When writing 1988, why should we use comma's?
Kotahi mano, iwa rau, waru tekau mā waru
So the recipient can clearly see the groupings and is able to work out the number quickly
So you don't run one kupu into another, it's a bit like talking, you accentuate the pause
It's grammatically correct to do so
All of these answers can be why
When asking the question how many
which do we use, the plural or single form?
E hia ngā ... ?
E hia te ... ?
When asking about people, which do we use?
E hia ngā ... ?
Tokohia ngā ... ?
When counting, does the ma in, lets say the number 14 have a macron?
Āe
Kahore
Should we use macrons, also known as pōtae or tohutō in all of our writings?
By golly gosh we should !! Because it's grammatically correct to do so
Nah she's all good bro,
they'll know what I mean.
Top tip; if you don't use them, you won't enunciate them in your kōrero
Do you have a macron programme on all of your devices
and are you using it on every communication you create?
Yes
Tau ana !! Go You !!
No
Why not, you slacker !!
Do you have the Māori Dictionary on your shortcut bar
and do you use it to inform and correct your kupu?
Yes
Tau ana !! Go you !!
No
You know what
to do !!
