Ngā Tohutohu
Anei (here, here it is, here they are), anā (there, there it is, there they are) and arā (there, there it is, there they are) are used to draw someone’s attention to the locations of something. These three words always start the sentence and they never follow prepositions (ie. me, ko, a, o mā, mō, nā, nō, ki, i, kei, hei).
Hei tauira:
| Kei hea tāu kurī? |
Where is your dog? |
| Arā tāku kurī. |
My dog's over there. |
| Kei hea koe? |
Where are you? |
| Anei. |
Here I am. |
| Anā tō waea pūkoro. |
There's your cellphone. |
Whakautua ngā pātai ki ngā whakautu Māori. Anei ngā whakautu Pākehā e whai ake nei.
