kāore, āe
1. but no, wrong, not so - an idiom used by the speaker to suggest that he/she was wrong in the first instance, or was mistaken.
Ka kī mai te Kāwanatanga nō te iwi Māori tonu te whenua e tū mai rā te hōhipera. Kāore, āe. Kua hokona kētia e te pōkokohua rā. / The Government said that the land where the hospital is located belongs to the Māori people. But no. It had already been bought by that bugger.
Synonyms: engari anō [tēnā]
