Off to Māori class! This class if fun yet long! But very fun to learn te reo Māori! Ka pai! (Good) Today we learned 2 new patterns and passive. Passive in Māori is called hāngū. Different from Hawaiian, it is a little more complexed, because the ending of the verb has various endings. Certain words may end with -a, -tia -hia, -mia and etc.
The first sentence is Kāore anō...kia... It means not happened yet. Here are some examples.
Kāore anō te wahine kia hoko kai. The woman has not yet bought food.
Kāore anō te pahi kia tae mai. The bus did not arrive.
The second sentence is Kātahi anō...ka... It means only just happened. Here are some examples.
Kātahi anō te ua ka heke mai. The rain just came.
Kātahi anō ngā tamariki ka tatari. The children just waited.
Kātahi anō...ka... can be compared the the Akahi a nō sentence.
After lecture, then it was off to tutorial. Straight 3 hours! So hungary. Didn't make it back in time for lunch at the cafe, so I went to buy a sandwich and sprite at the School of Education cafeteria. Later at 2pm was my tutorial for Te Tiriti. The person running our lectures is Moengaroa Edmonds. She is a teacher in the School of Law, but is helping out in the School of Māori and Pacific Development. Just introductions and going over our first assessment, which is an essay about te ao Māori. Should be easy, I hope! Gotta learn APA style! BLAH!!! It's 12:51am now, time to go sleep and I think I used enough of my internet for today/tonight.
Nite!
Makana... Maybe I'm just looking for books.
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ReplyDeleteIf you're looking to fill pages for impression purposes you may create a list of sources you collected and looked through. This list is called a references list. It makes sources available for your readers who wish to look further into the subject. Another type of list is a bibliography. This lists shows books you've looked through to gather ideas for your presentation. Then you have your references. Teachers are looking for your acknowledgement of published resources. I have yet to figure out how to credit authors enough to land a good review, critique or grade. Quote of material requires those lines denoting Author/Article or Book Title/page#,publisher, etc..... Your attorney instructor may have good insight into this. It's somewhat poor choice to state "I thought this up!" even if you did, gotta practice giving credit.
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