ahatanga
1. (noun) doing whatever, whatever, anything, suchlike, so forth, so on.
Ā, koia hoki te ahatanga ko ngā iwi katoa i haere katoa ki te mahi muka mā ngā Pākehā o Tauranga (JPS 1990:151). / And so that is also the reason why all the tribes went to prepare flax for the Pākehā of Tauranga.
Nā, whakaaetia ana taua takiwā e te rangatira hōia: otirā, kāhore ōna ahatanga, kāhore he tikanga kupu i puta ake i ngā tāngata, nā reira ka tīmata anō te whawhai i te whā o ngā rā (TMT 15/5/1861:2). / That period was agreed to by the General, but, as nothing transpired and no plan emerged from the people, the fighting resumed on the fourth day.
kāore he aha ki a au me i uru te hapa i te patopatohanga, i te tānga rānei o ngā kōrero, i te ahatanga rānei, engari kia awe tonu te whakatika (HJ 2012:177). / It doesn't matter to me if errors entered the typing, or the printing, or whatever, as long as they're corrected promptly.
