A grammar of the New Zealand languageWilson, 1862 - 168 pages |
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Expressions et termes fréquents
adjective adverbs ahau aroha Atua canoe compound connexion denote dipthongs distinction employed English fetch frequently haere haunga Hebrew hoki Hone idem John kahore kainga kaua kete ki te kihai kino kite Koia konei kore korero koutou kua mate kupu language mahi maku Maori matou matua maua meaning muri neuter verbs nga tangata Ngapuhi ngaro noho noku pai ana passive patu patu ana patua pehea person plural poaka preceding predicate prefixed preposition pronoun rakau ranei rapua ratou rawa reira remarks riri riro rongo roto Rotorua runga sometimes speaker student substantive Syntax taea taha tahi taku tana tatou taua tena tenei tense tera tetahi thing Tikina toku tona tukua verb verbal noun verbal particles Waikato waka whaka whakaaro whare words
Fréquemment cités
Page 45 - Greek. / §. 9. ^he neuter expresses being, or a state or / condition of being; when the agent and the object acted upon coincide, and the event is properly neither action nor passion, but rather something between both: as I am, I sleep, I walk."* NOTE.
Page 55 - One great use of prepositions, in English, is, to express those relations, which, in some languages, are chiefly marked by cases, or the different endings of nouns. See page 54. The necessity and use of them will appear from the following examples. If we say, "he writes a pen," "they ran the river,"
Page 9 - G hard are formed by pressing the middle of the tongue to the roof of the mouth, near the throat, and separating them a little smartly to form the first, and more gently to form the last of these letters.
Page 12 - It is of the nature of both the articles to determine or limit the thing spoken of. A determines it to be one single thing of the kind, leaving it still uncertain which : the determines which it is, or of many, which they are.
Page 124 - The people that are with thce are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hand, lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, Mine own hand hath saved me.
Page 113 - Christian hero, and great apostle of the gentiles," than, " This is Paul the Christian hero, and great apostle of the gentiles' advice." On the other hand, the application of the genitive sign to both or all of the nouns in apposition, would be generally harsh and displeasing, and perhaps in some cases incorrect: as,
Page 25 - ... Tuhoe. It is usually applied to a single odd number — eg, e waru pu, tautahi, for eight brace (or couples) and an odd one = seventeen. In Maunsell's example, however, it stands for ten, or an odd ten. Maunsell, in giving the modern system, stated that...
Page 36 - The verbal particles are words which have no meaning in themselves, but which prefixed to a word, endue it with the qualities of a verb.