Tūāhua-Statives
Last week at Te Aupikitanga we were re-united with tūāhua. Here is some explanation and a link below to tōku reo for some whakaharatau.
1. Stative verbs in Māori are words that indicate a state, condition or quality (rather than an activity or an event-adjectives used as verbs).
2. These stative verbs are recognized by their translation of ‘to be something’ to be in a state. They are verbs showing a completed condition.
3. Stative verbs are not something you work out by the context of a story. They are something you must know and recognise (there are heaps of them).
4. The structure of stative verbs in sentences is similar to passives in that you don’t use the i/ki as object markers.
5. The ‘i’ in this sentence indicates what is responsible for the state or condition. (“i”= by/with)
6. Statives can be used with the following sentence starters – Kua, ka and I. They cannot be used with the following sentence starters
kei te or I te.
Kua mahue te tamaiti i te pahi.
The boy was left behind by the bus.
The boy was left behind by the bus.
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tūāhua
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To be
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tūāhua
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To be
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pau
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Used up
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mate
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dead
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ea
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Avenged/paid for
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mutu
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ended
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pā
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struck
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mau
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caught
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makona
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satisfied
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mātaotao
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cold
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pōnānā
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Anxious/hurried
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mahue
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Left behind
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tata
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Be close/near
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ngaro
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Missing/gone
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kī
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full
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oti
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completed
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tu
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wounded
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pakaru
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broken
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rupeke
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assembled
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tūreiti
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late
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marū
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Bruised/crushed
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wareware
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forgotten
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motu
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severed
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whara
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struck
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marara
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scattered
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riro
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taken
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