pērā
1. (verb) (-hia,-tia) like that - unconnected to either the speaker or listener. If the comparison is completed, the second element is introduced by me.
(Te Pihinga Textbook (Ed. 2): 67-68;)
He pērā tōku waka. / My vehicle is like that one over there.
Pērā me tōna pāpā, i iriirihia ia e John Skevington, te mihingare Wēteriana o Heretoa (TTR 1990:353). / Like his father, he was baptised by John Skevington, the Methodist minister of Heretoa.
Synonyms: whēnā, whērā, whēraka, pēnā, pēnaka, pēraka, whēnaka
2. (verb) (-hia,-tia) to act in that way, behave in that way, treat in that way.
(Te Pihinga Textbook (Ed. 2): 67-68;)
Ka pērātia anō ngā kōrero me tērā i rangona rā inatahirā. / The story was treated in the same way as the one we heard the day before yesterday.
3. (location) in that direction, there, that way.
(Te Pihinga Textbook (Ed. 2): 67-68;)
