Wrong end of the stick
Ehara vs Kāore. The great debate.
Eating with friends
In English you eat with friends. In Māori you eat with cutlery. One little word, very BIG difference.
Do me
Are you using taea the right way? I really, really hope so.
May I? or Can I?
“Can I use the bathroom?” “I don’t know, can you?” Oh how grammarians rejoice in the humour of semantics.
For the rest of you who didn’t get the joke, here’s the difference between may and can, āhei and taea.
It’s the first time
Never before seen, heard or done on upokopakaru… until now; the easy way to say you’re doing something for the first time.
Back to the future
Sorry for crushing the dream guys. We can’t travel through time because time travels through us.
Dinosaurs, aliens and string theory
Exposing the myth: why you can use the exact same sentence for both the past and the future.
So and so
So… what’s the difference between nō reira and nā reira?
Passive resistance
Te reo Māori uses the passive voice more often than the active. But trying to get students to use it meets with some resistance.
Our trip
The grammar policeman has made a reappearance… yet again with possessives. I just keep thinking, haven’t we learnt it all yet?
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