Sentences for a lesson
New vocabulary for lesson 31:
mutu, kōtiro, rānei, tāku, māku
Sentence Flashcards
104 sentences using only vocabulary from lessons 1–31, including at least one word introduced in lesson 31.
Ko Mere tāku kōtiro.
Mere is my girl.
Kua mutu te kai.
The food has finished.
Kua mutu te mahi.
Work has finished.
Kua mutu taku kai.
My meal is finished.
Kua mutu tana horoi
His wash is finished
tāku pene
my pen
Kei te tangi te kōtiro.
The girl is crying.
Kei te haere te kōtiro ki te kura.
The girl is going to school.
Kua mutu tāku mahi i a au.
My work has been finished by me. (I've stopped working)
Kua mutu a kōrua mahi?
Have you both finished your work?
Māku e horoi.
I'll wash.
Haere tonu kia mutu rawa te mahi.
Keep going till the work is completed.
Ka mutu te hui.
The meeting ended.
Tōku reo, tāku kai.
My language, my food.
Kua mutu koe?
Have you finished?
Kua mutu?
Have you finished?
He pai tāku kai.
My food is good.
Kua mutu mō tēnei wā.
We have finished at this time.
Māku e mahi.
I will do it.
Māku e haere.
I will go.
Kei hea te kōtiro?
Where is the girl?
Nā ngā kōtiro tērā kurī.
That dog belongs to the girls.
He tama tāku.
I have a boy.
He wahine tāku.
I have a wife.
Kua mutu i a koe?
Have you finished?
Kua mutu tō mahi?
Have (you) finished your work.
Ko tāku wahine ātaahua tēnei.
This is my beautiful wife.
Kua mutu au.
I have finished.
Kua mutu i a koe tō mahi?
Have you finished your work?
Kua mutu ngā mahi.
The work is over.
Ko tāku, he...
What I do is...
Kua mutu te hui.
The meeting is over.
Māku tēnei.
I will have this one.
Kia hoki mai ahau, kua mutu tēnei mahi.
When I return, you are to have finished this job.
E tino mutu ana i ahau tēnā pukapuka.
I am really going to finish that book.
Māku e mahi ngā kai.
I'll get the kai ready.
Māku ngā kai e hoko.
I will buy the food.
Ehara māku ngā kai e hoko.
I won't buy the food.
Ka mutu te kōrero.
The discussion finished.
Mate noa ake rātou katoa i te aroha ki taua kōtiro.
They were all overcome with love for that girl.
Ka mutu noa i konei.
That's the end.
Ka mutu tonu te kōrero ki konei.
The story finishes right here.
Māku e horoi tō rātou waka.
I will be the one to clean the car.
Me mutu ngā mahi i konei.
We should finish our work here.
Ka mutu te kura.
School has finished.
Nō konei rānei koe?
Are you from here or not?
Kei te haere mai koe rānei?
Are you coming with us or not?
Kei te kai rānei koe?
Are you going to eat or not?
Ka mutu ana te hui, ka hoki atu tāua ki te kāinga.
When the hui finishes, then we will come home. (Or when the hui finished, then we went home.)
Ka haere tātou, ka mutu ana te hui.
We will go when the hui finishes.
Kua mutu te hui.
The meeting has finished.
He pene tāku.
I have a pen.
Nā te kōtiro i waiata i te waiata.
It was the girl who sang the song.
Ehara i te kōtiro te waiata i waiata.
The girl didn’t sing the song.
Māku ngā kai e hoko.
I will buy the food.
Ehara māku ngā kai e hoko.
I won't buy the food.
Māku tēnei kai.
This food is for me.
Ehara māku tēnei kai.
This food is not for me.
Kua mutu te kura.
School has finished.
Māku a Rangi e harikoa ai.
I am the reason that Rangi will be happy.
Kua hoki mai ngā kōtiro i te toa.
The girls have returned from the shop.
Māku tēnei pene.
This pen is for me (or will be mine).
Māku e kōrero.
I will be the one to talk.
Ehara māku e kōrero.
I will not be the one to talk.
He pukapuka tāku.
I have a book.
Māku tēnei pukapuka.
This book will be mine / is for me.
Māku tēnei kai.
This food is for me.
Kei te haere atu ahau ki te whare o tāku tama.
Now this is a bit tricksy because a house is in the o category and my son is in the a categoryso it's o tāku
Ko tēnei tāku pukapuka
Which one of these books is mine? Not that one! Ah, ko tēnei tāku pukapuka
Ko wai tērā kōtiro?
Who is that girl?
A koe rānei!
You can talk! Talk about the pot calling the kettle black
Kua mutu te mahi
The work has been finished
Ehara rānei koe i te kaiako?
Are you not a teacher?
Kei te haere rānei ahau?
Am I going? (or: Am I going, perhaps?)
Hei aha māku!
What does it matter to me?
Kia mutu taua mahi
once you have completed that mahi,
I te kai te kōtiro.
The girl was eating.
He pai rānei tēnei pukapuka?
Is this book good?
He pukapuka pai tēnei, ehara rānei?
Is this a good book, or isn't it?
E kore rānei e hoki mai?
Won’t he come back?
Kei hea rānei!
It must be somewhere!
Kei roto ngā kōtiro i te whare o tō rātou hoa.
The girls are in their friend’s house.
He pene tāku.
I have a pen.
Ehara tēnei i tāku pene.
This is not my pen.
Ko tāku tēnei.
This is mine.
Kei hea tāku pene?
Where is my pen?
Ka pai te waiata a ngā kōtiro.
The girls sing nicely.
Māku e mahi?
Shall I do it?
Kei te mōhio koe ko wai tērā kōtiro?
Do you know who that girl is?
Kua mutu tana horoi.
He has finished washing.
He tāne tāku!
CLS husband mine I have a husband!
Ka hoki atu mātou ki te kāinga, ka noho mai i konei rānei?
Are we returning home or staying here?
Nā te wahine a Mutu.
It was Mutu’s wife.
Kua waiata ngā kōtiro ki a mātou.
The girls have sung to us.
Kei te mōhio au ko tēnā tāku pene.
Exercise 12b
E waiata ana ngā kōtiro
The girls are singing (statement)
Kua waiata te kōtiro
the girl has sung
E waiata ana te kōtiro
the girl is singing
I waiata te kōtiro
the girl sang
Ka waiata te kōtiro
the girl will sing
Me waiata te kōtiro
the girl had better sing
Kua mutu tā mātou mahi
Our work has ended
Ko tāku wahine tēnei
This is my wife
Kua mutu au
I have been defeated