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ākene [koe] i a au

1. I'll get you! I'll deal to you! you'd better be careful, you watch it or else - an idiom indicating that the speaker is fed up with or angry with what someone is doing or saying and warning them that if he/she is not careful there'll be trouble.

Ākene tērā rā i a au! / I'll deal to that one!

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