ākuanei
1. (location) presently, today, soon, before long, shortly, in short time.
Ākuanei, nō taua wā tonu i tukua a ia ki Te Waipounamu (TTR 1996:34). / Almost immediately he was sent to the South Island.
Synonyms: hai kō ake nei, ināianei, taro, taro ake, taro kau iho, nāwai, nāwai, (ā), ka ..., karo, nāwai, i nāianei, ā kō kō ake nei, ā kō ake nei, ākuara, nāwai (rā) (ā), ka ..., ā muri ake nei, tākaro, i nāia nei
2. (interjection) perhaps.
Ka mea te iwi katoa kua kite nei i te tere o Hotunui ki te kupenga, ka mea “E pai ana kia karangatia. Ākuanei he rūpahu noa iho nā taua tangata.” (JPS 1941:128). / The people all said that they had witnessed the speed of Hotunui in net-weaving and said, “It is well that he be invited. Perhaps it is just lies on the part of that man.”
Synonyms: ākune, ākuni, ākene, ēkene, pea, tērā pea, ākene pea, āpea, āwhai, tēnā pea, etia
3. you'll get it soon, you're in for it, you're in for the high jump - sometimes used as an idiom at the start of the sentence to indicate that the speaker is becoming tired of, or angry about, what someone or others have said or done and is warning them they will be in trouble if they don't stop.
Kei te pekepeke a Tiaki i runga i te moenga o tana kuia, kua mea atu te kuia, "Ākuanei koe i a au. Kia tere tō heke mai i konā." (HKK 1999:109). / Tiaki is jumping up and down on his grandmother's bed and the elderly woman says, "You'll get it soon. Hurry up and get down from there."
See also ākuanei [koe] i a au
