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kua mau [tō] iro

1. haven't you learnt your lesson yet? they've learnt their lesson, she's learnt her lesson - an idiom in which may be replacd by other possessives.

(Te Kōhure Textbook (Ed. 2): 116;)

Pare: Kua mau tō rātou iro iāianā. Rangi: Te āhua nei. Inā te anahera o ō rātou āhua (HKK 1999:97). / Pare: They've learnt their lesson now. Rangi: It would seem so. They are like angels now.
Tokowhā ngā wahine kua hapū i a koe, kāore anō kia mau te iro. / You made four women pregnant, so haven't you learnt your lesson yet.

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