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tae

1. (verb) (-a) to arrive, achieve, extend to.

Tae rawa mai māua i Rotorua ki te ngaki mate mō Pinenga, kua tae ake ki Matamata (JPS 1990:129). / When we finally arrived from Rotorua to seek revenge for Pinenga, he had reached Matamata.

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2. (verb) (-a) to reach.

Kua tīmata anō te wahine ki te mau roroa i te panekoti. E tika ana anō, i te mea kua tae kē ngā panekoti o nāianei ki runga ake i ngā turi (TTT 1/9/1929:1064). / Women have again started wearing longer skirts. And that's appropriate because currently skirts have reached above the knees.

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3. (verb) (-a) to extend to, as far as, until.

Nā, kia rongo mai koe; kāore rawa ā Te Urewera whenua i tae mai ki konei (W 1971:355). / Now, you should hear what I'm saying; Te Urewera's lands do not extend to here.

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4. (verb) (-a) to overcome, take, prevail over.

E rua ngā āhua o tēnei whaiwhaiā, he tangata kāore i tae ki te wahine, he tangata i tae tonu ki te wahine i moea hei wahine tūturu māna (TPH 31/8/1904:2). / There are two functions of this witchcraft, for a man who is not able to take a woman and for a man who has taken a wife in a permanent relationship.

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Synonyms: poke, kake, where, pāpā, wikitōria, whakatina, tārū, hinga, poko, raupatu, takapapa, pārure, whakatūoi, mate, whara

tae

1. (noun) hue, dye, colour, stain, pigment - not normally used before the names of colours.

(Te Kākano Textbook (Ed. 2): 86; Te Pihinga Textbook (Ed. 2): 162-165; Te Māhuri Study Guide (Ed. 1): 63-64;)

Ko te tae o ngā hune, e rite ana ki te pūkohu, ā, he kōrangorango te āhua (HM 4/1998:4). / The colour of the down feathers is similar to moss and is mottled.
Ina ranua te kōwhai me te whero, ko te karaka ka hua mai (HJ 2012:98). / When yellow and red are mixed together, orange results.

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Synonyms: kano

tae mātāwaenga

1. (noun) secondary colour.

Ka kitea hoki ngā tae mātāwaenga, me ngā tae mātāmuri kei waenganui i ngā tae mātāmua e toru nei (RTA 2014:156). / The secondary colours can also be seen, with the tertiary colours between the three primary colours.

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tae mātāmua

1. (noun) primary colour.

E kitea ana ngā tae mātāmua, arā, te kura, te kahurangi me te kōwhai (RTA 2014:156). / The primary colours can be seen, namely red, blue and yellow.

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tātari tae

1. (noun) colour filter.

kōwhiringa tae

1. (noun) colour palette.

whano tae

1. almost, nearly.

I mate a Kāwana Paipai Te Whetūrangi ki Pūtiki, i Whanganui, i te 13 o Hune, 1884. Whano tae ki te 100 tau i te matenga ai. E meinga ana i kite a Kāwana Paipai i tērā manu, i te moa, e hāereere ana i nga mānia o Te Waimate (KO 15/8/1884:2). / Kāwana Paipai Te Whetūrangi passed away in Pūtiki, Whanganui, on the 13th of June, 1884. He was almost 100 years old when he died. It’s said that Kāwana Paipai saw the moa bird wandering the Te Waimate plains.

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Synonyms: tata, whakatata, whano, tōtahi, kua [mutu] tonu

tae mātāmuri

1. (noun) tertiary colour.

Ka kitea hoki ngā tae mātāwaenga, me ngā tae mātāmuri kei waenganui i ngā tae mātāmua e toru nei (RTA 2014:156). / The secondary colours can also be seen, with the tertiary colours between the three primary colours.

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tae ana ki

1. including, inclusive of.

tae noa ki

1. until, up until, as far as.

Mai i te wā e pēpi ana tae noa ki tēnei rā ko ia tana kaitiaki. / She has been his guardian since the time he was a baby.

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tae rā anō ki

1. including, inclusive of.


2. right up to, right until.

Kāti, i haere tonu ngā amuamu mō ngā hokohoko whenua, tae rā anō ki te mutunga o te tekau tau atu i 1860 (TTR 1900:394). / Complaints over land sales continued right up to the end of the 1860s.

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tae-ā-wairua

1. (verb) to be there in spirit.

tae ā-wairua

1. (verb) to be there in spirit.

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tae-ā-tinana

1. (verb) to arrive in person.

tae ā-tinana

1. (verb) to arrive in person, attend in person.

Mō te hunga e pāngia ana e te mate, ā, i kore ai e tae ā-tinana tonu mai kia mahia e Hōri, kōrero ā-waea noa atu ai ia ki a rātau (TTR 1998:49). / For those who were ill but could not attend in person to be treated by Hōri, it was sufficient for him to talk to them by telephone.

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tūtae atua

1. (noun) puffball, Lycoperdon perlatum - ball-shaped fungi which, though solid when young, are full of dust-like spores when mature. Found mostly in pastures and along the edge of native bush in summer and autumn.

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maire rōroro

1. (noun) narrow-leaved maire, Nestegis montana - a many-branched, round-headed tree 10-15 m high with slender branches. Leaves are shiny, narrow and leathery. The trunk is usually short. Found from sea-level to 600 m in forests of the North Island and the northern South Island. Also known as maire kōtae.

See also maire

Synonyms: maire kōtae

taea

1. (verb) to be able, accomplished, possible - although this word derives from tae and its passive ending -a, it has developed a feature distinct from the normal passive construction, in that the action of which someone is said to be capable is preceded by te and no preposition. Unlike other verbs in the passive which do not take a passive ending when following me, taea may occur after me. If taea is modified by a base and/or a particle, which would normally take a passive ending after a verb in the passive, then that base or particle also has a passive ending (usually -tia).

(Te Kākano Textbook (Ed. 2): 75-76;)

Ka taea ēnei kōrero e ia te tuhi. / He is able to write down this account.
Kīhai i oti i a ia tana tohu paetahi; ahakoa i taea ngāwaritia noatia e ia te nuinga o ngā mahi (TTR 1996:66). / He did not complete his BA; although he was able to do most of his subjects quite easily.

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See also tae, tareka

Synonyms: kaha, tare, āhei, waewae kai pakiaka, tareka, kei a [koe] mō te ..., toa, ringa rehe, Kei a ... mō te ..., riwha

Whakataka-kārehu-a-Tamatea, Te

1. (location) Fiordland - also called Te Tūtae-o-Tūterakiwhānoa.

(Te Kākano Textbook (Ed. 2): 78;)

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