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A note on pronunciation
The following English equivalents are a rough guide to pronouncing vowels in Māori: There are fewer consonants, and only a few are different from English: The macron – a little line above some vowels – indicates vowel length. Some words that look the same have different meanings according to their vowel length. For example, anā means 'here is' or 'behold': Anā te tangata! (Here is the man!) But ana, with no macron, means a cave. Some writers of modern Māori double the vowel instead of using macrons when indicating a long vowel, so the first example would be Anaa te tangata!
 *  a as in far
 * e as in desk and the first 'e' in where; it should be short and sharp
 * i as in fee, me, see
 * o as in awe (not 'oh!')
 * u as in sue, boot
 * r should not be rolled. It is pronounced quite close to the sound of 'l' in English. The tongue is near the front of the mouth.
 * t is pronounced more like 'd' than 't', with the tip of the tongue slightly further back from the teeth
 * wh counts as a consonant; the standard modern pronunciation is close to the 'f' sound; in some districts it is more like an 'h'; in others more like a 'w' without the 'h'; in others again more like the old aspirated English pronunciation of 'wh' (huence for whence)
 * ng counts as one consonant and is pronounced like the 'ng' in the word 'singer'. It is not pronounced like the 'ng' in 'finger', i.e., Whāngārei is pronounced Far-n(g)ah-ray (not Fong-gah-ray); Tauranga is pronounced Tow- (to rhyme with sew) rah-n(g)ah (not Tow-rang-gah).

//**Counting in Māori **//

1 = Tahi

2 = Rua

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">3 = Toru

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">4 = Whā

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">5 = Rima

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">6 = Ono

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">7 = Whitu

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">8 = Waru

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">9 = Iwa

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">10 = Tekau (Tua-ngahuru)

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">11 = Tekau mā tahi - //Tekau (10) Mā (+) Tahi (1)//

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">12 = Tekau mā rua - //Tekau (10) Mā (+) Tahi (1)//

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">20 = Rua tekau - //Rua (2) Tekau (10)//

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">21 = Rua tekau mā tahi - //Rua (2) Tekau (10) Mā (+) Tahi (1)//

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">25 = Rua tekau mā rima - //Tekau (10) Mā (+) Rima (5)//

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">30 = Toru tekau - //Toru (3) Tekau (10)//

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">31 = Toru tekau mā tahi - //Toru (3) Tekau (10) Mā (+) tahi (1)//

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">38 = Toru tekau mā waru - //Toru (3) Tekau (10) Mā (+) Waru (8)//

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">40 = Whā tekau - Whā (4) Tekau (10)

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">50 = Rima tekau

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">60 = Ono tekau

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">70 = Whitu tekau

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">80 = Waru tekau

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">90 = Iwa tekau

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">100 = Kotahi rau - //Kotahi (1) Rau (100)//

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">101 = Kotahi rau tahi - //Kotahi (1) Rau (100) Tahi (1)//

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">111 = Kotahi rau tekau mā tahi - //Kotahi (1) Rau (100) Tekau (10) Mā (+) Tahi (1)//

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">225 = Rua rau rua tekau mā rima - //Rua (2) Rau (100) Rua (2) Mā (+) Rima (5)//

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">1000 = Kotahi mano - //Kotahi (1) Mano (1000)//

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">1020 = Kotahi mano rua tekau - //Kotahi (1) Mano (1000) Rua (2) Tekau (10)//

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">2354 = Rua mano toru rau rima tekau mā whā - //Rua (2) Mano (1000) Toru (3) Rau (100) Rima (5) Tekau (10) Mā (+) Whā (4)//

__//<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">100 Māori words that all New Zealanders should know: //__

The marae

 * //[|Hui]// a meeting of any kind, conference, gathering
 * //[|Marae]// the area for formal discourse in front of a meeting house or applied to a whole marae complex, including meeting house, dining hall, forecourt, etc.
 * //[|Haere mai!]// Welcome! Enter!
 * //[|Nau mai!]// Welcome!
 * //[|Tangihanga]// funeral ceremonies, when body is mourned on a marae
 * //[|Tangi]// short (verbal version) for the above (gerund) or to cry, to mourn
 * //[|Karanga]// the ceremony of calling to the guests to welcome them to enter the marae
 * //[|Manuhiri]// guests, visitors
 * //[|Tangata whenua]// original people belonging to a place, local people, hosts
 * //[|Whaikōrero]// the art and practise of speech making
 * //[|Kaikōrero]// or kaiwhai kōrero speaker (there are many other terms)
 * //[|Haka]// chant with dance for the purpose of challenge; ([|see other references to haka on this site)]
 * //[|Waiata]// song or chant which follows speech
 * //[|Koha]// gift, present (usually money, can be food or precious items, given by guest to hosts)
 * //[|Whare nui]// meeting house; in writing this is sometimes run together as one word – wharenui
 * //[|Whare whakairo]// carved meeting house
 * //[|Whare kai]// dining hall
 * //[|Whare paku]// lavatory, toilet
 * //[|Whare horoi]// ablution block, bathroom

Concepts

 * //[|Aroha]// compassion, tenderness, sustaining love
 * //[|Ihi]// power, authority, essential force
 * //[|Mana]// authority, power; secondary meaning: reputation, influence
 * //[|Manaakitanga]// respect for hosts or kindness to guests, to entertain, to look after
 * //[|Mauri]// hidden essential life force or a symbol of this
 * //[|Noa]// safe from tapu (see below), non-sacred, not tabooed
 * //[|Raupatu]// confiscate, take by force
 * //[|Rohe]// boundary, a territory (either geographical or spiritual) of an iwi or hapū
 * //[|Taihoa]// to delay, to wait, to hold off to allow maturation of plans, etc.
 * //[|Tapu]// sacred, not to be touched, to be avoided because sacred, taboo
 * //[|Tiaki]// to care for, look after, guard (kaitiaki – guardian, trustee)
 * //[|Taonga]// treasured possessions or cultural items, anything precious
 * //[|Tino rangatiratanga]// the highest possible independent chiefly authority, paramount authority, sometimes used for sovereignty
 * //[|Tūrangawaewae]// a place to stand, a place to belong to, a seat or location of identity
 * //[|Wehi]// to be held in awe
 * //[|Whakapapa]// genealogy, to recite genealogy, to establish kin connections
 * //[|Whenua]// land, homeland, country; also afterbirth, placenta

People and their groups

 * //[|Ariki]// person of high inherited rank from senior lines of descent, male or female
 * //[|Hapū]// clan, tribe, independent section of a people; modern usage – sub-tribe; pregnant
 * //[|Iwi]// people, nation; modern usage – tribe; bones
 * //[|Kaumātua]// elder or elders, senior people in a kin group
 * //[|Ngāi Tātou]// a way of referring to everyone present – we all
 * //[|Pākehā]// this word is not an insult; its derivation is obscure; it is the Māori word for people living in New Zealand of British/European origin; originally it would not have included, for example, Dalmatians, Italians, Greeks, Indians, Chinese, etc.
 * //[|Rangatira]// person of chiefly rank, boss, owner
 * //[|Tama]// son, young man, youth
 * //[|Tamāhine]// daughter
 * //[|Tamaiti]// one child
 * //[|Tamariki]// children
 * //[|Tāne]// man, husband, men, husbands
 * //[|Teina/taina]// junior relative, younger brother of a brother, younger sister of a sister
 * //[|Tipuna/tupuna]// ancestor
 * //[|Tuahine]// sister of a man
 * //[|Tuakana]// senior relative, older brother of a brother, older sister of a sister
 * //[|Tungāne]// brother of a sister
 * //[|Wahine]// woman, wife (wāhine women, wives)
 * //[|Waka]// canoe, canoe group (all the iwi and hapū descended from the crew of a founding waka)
 * //[|Whāngai]// fostered or adopted child, young person
 * //[|Whānau]// extended or non-nuclear family; to be born
 * //[|Whanaunga]// kin, relatives

Components of place names
Ordinary geographical features such as hills, rivers, cliffs, streams, mountains, the coast and adjectives describing them, such as small, big, little and long, are to be found in many place names. Here is a list so you can recognise them:
 * //[|Au]// current
 * //[|Awa]// river
 * //[|Iti]// small, little
 * //[|Kai]// one of the meanings of kai is food; in a place name it signifies a place where a particular food source was plentiful, e.g., Kaikōura, the place where crayfish (kōura) abounded and were eaten
 * //[|Manga]// stream
 * //[|Maunga]// mountain
 * //[|Moana]// sea, or large inland 'sea', e.g., Taupō
 * //[|Motu]// island
 * //[|Nui]// large, big
 * //[|ō]// or o means 'of' (so does a, ā); many names begin with ō, meaning the place of so-and-so, e.g., ōkahukura, ōkiwi, ōhau, etc.
 * //[|One]// sand, earth
 * //[|Pae]// ridge, range
 * //[|Papa]// flat
 * //[|Poto]// short
 * //[|Puke]// hill
 * //[|Roa]// long
 * //[|Roto]// lake; inside
 * //[|Tai]// coast, tide
 * //[|Wai]// water
 * //[|Whanga]// harbour, bay

Greetings

 * //[|E noho rā]// Goodbye (from a person leaving)
 * //[|Haere rā]// Goodbye (from a person staying)
 * //[|Haere mai]// Welcome!, Come!
 * //[|Hei konā rā]// Goodbye (less formal)
 * //[|Kia ora]// Hi!, G'day! (general informal greeting)
 * //[|Mōrena]// (Good) morning!
 * //[|Nau mai]// Welcome! Come!
 * //[|Tēnā koe]// formal greeting to one person
 * //[|Tēnā kōrua]// formal greeting to two people
 * //[|Tēnā koutou]// formal greeting to many people
 * //[|Tēnā tātou katoa]// formal inclusive greeting to everybody present, including oneself

Body parts

 * //[|Arero]// tongue
 * //[|Ihu]// nose
 * //[|Kakī]// neck
 * //[|Kauae]//, kauwae chin
 * //[|Māhunga]// also 'Makawe', hair (when used for hair must always be used in plural, indicated by ngā [the, plural]), head.
 * //[|Manawa]// heart
 * //[|Niho]// teeth
 * //[|Poho]// chest (also called uma)
 * //[|Puku]// belly, stomach
 * //[|Ringa]// hand, arm
 * //[|Toto]// blood
 * //[|Turi]// knee (also known as pona)
 * //[|Upoko]// head
 * //[|Waewae]// foot, feet, leg, legs



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