1. (verb) to want to go - a phrase used with hiahia and pīrangi as a shortened form for hiahia ki te haere.
Ko te wāhi tino hiahia haere atu ai ahau, ko te teihana tereina, ki te mātakitaki i ngā tereina e haere mai ana, e haere atu ana. / The place that I really wanted to go to was the train station to watch the trains coming and going.
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