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Found 11 matches
2. (determiner) each - when repeated, or repeated with its phrase.
Waiho tētahi pukapuka hīmene ki runga i tēnei tūru, i tēnei tūru. / Leave a hymn book on each chair.
(Te Pihinga
Textbook (Ed. 2):
90-91;)
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3. (determiner) here.
Tēnei au kua tū ake nei ki te whakatau i a koutou. / Here I am standing to officially welcome you.
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4. (determiner) this - used with a noun in time expressions referring to the present.
Nō tēnei tau i tū ai ngā whakataeatae kapa haka. / It was this year that the performing arts competitions were held.
(Te Kākano
Textbook (Ed. 2):
30, 46;)
i tēnei pō Play
1. tonight, this night.
Moe mai rā e hoa i tā tāua wahine i tēnei pō; ā tērā pō te riro ai i a au (TTR 1990:275). / Sleep with our wife tonight, friend, for tomorrow she will be mine (DNZB 1990:494).
tēnā ko tēnei Play
1. on the other hand, then again, but in this case.
Tōna ritenga mō te kaipuke rere mai i Ingarani kia whā marama i te moana ka tae mai ki uta nei. Tēnā ko tēnei tōtahi ka ono marama o taua puke i te moana e ngaro ana; pāwera ana ngā Pākehā o konei koi tahuri (TWM 9/7/1864:2). / The expectation for ships sailing here from England is that they will be four months at sea before they reach land here. But in this particular case that ship has been six months missing at sea and the Pākehā here are concerned that it might have capsized.
ko [koe] anō [tēnei] Play
1. once again [you]'ve come up trumps, [you]'ve done it again - this idiom acknowledges someone's good qualities, but can also be used to criticise someone's bad traits.
Ko kōrua anō ēnei e waha nei i a tātou. / Here you two are again doing everything on our behalf.