1. you should watch out, you should be careful - an idiom indicating to the listeners that they should be careful what they say or do in case a difficulty arise. Māta starts the sentence and is followed by a verb.
Māta takatakahi koutou i ngā wāhi tapu (HKK 1999:110). / You had better tread carefully in the sacred places.
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