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pēneki

1. (verb) (-tia) like this - variation of pēnei.

E toru, e whā kē ngā reo kōrero o te nuinga o ngā tāngata i tae atu ki te hui, ā, he torutoru noa te hunga pēneki i a au nei, e rua noa iho ngā reo kōrero (HM 2/1998). / The majority of the people who came to the conference could speak three or four languages and the people like me who could only speak two languages were a minority.

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Synonyms: whēnei, pēnei, whēneki

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