Understanding A Category Sentences
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Understanding A Category Sentences
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Kia ora!
This week I touch on A-Category. Hopefully you find it useful!
Anyways, here is a brief overview of what sits under this category according to the book A Maori Reference Grammar.
- Small portable objects which are owned by the possessor, eg books, toys, tools, cups. - Nahaku tena pukapuka / That book belongs to me.
- Subjects of nominalisations of active transitive verbs. - Te tuhinga a Hemi i tana reta / Hemi's writing of his letter.
- Actions carried out by the possessor and things produced by such actions. - Te korero a Pita / Pita's speech.
- Family relationships for the generation below. - Tahaku mokupuna.
- Consumables, except fresh water and medicine (though some iwi dialect class washing water as o, and drinking water as a, and others o for both). Homai he paraoa mahaku. / Give me some bread.
- Animals as pets. - Nga kuri a te rangatira / The chiefs dogs.
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