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katoa, katoa

1. they're all, all of the - an idiomatic use to emphasise that a group are all the same. Can be used for both people or things.

I roto i te whakapapa Māori, nō mua ngā kararehe i te tangata, nā reira, katoa, katoa, he tuākana nō tātou (HKK 1999:184). / In Māori genealogies, animals are before humans and so they're all senior to us.

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