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rōpū - group

kapa - group, row of people, as in: kapa haka

ope - group travelling together

tira - group or row of people

e hoa mā - friends (when speaking to a group of people)

kāhui - group; cluster; flock

ohu - group of volunteers; workers

ranga - group of people; raise

hunga - group, people, company of people

huihui - assembly, group, constellation

Kei te waiata te kapa haka.
The haka group is singing.
Simple sentences: present tense with a verb - kei te

E haere mai ana te ope ki runga i te marae.
That group over there is coming onto the marae.
Simple sentences: present tense - e... ana

E tangi haere mai ana te ope.
The group are weeping as they come.
Simple sentences: present tense - e... ana

Ka waiata te kapa haka i te hui.
The haka group will sing at the gathering.
Simple sentences: past tense - i te

Ka wehe atu te hunga ākuanei.
That group of people (over there) will leave soon.
Simple sentences: future tense - ka

te kairangahau i uiui ia tamariki, o ngā whānau katoa.
The researcher interviewed each group of children from all the families.
Past agent emphatic - nā - agent emphatic

taua rōpū ngā waiata tino reka.
That group did the sweetest singing.
Past agent emphatic - nā - agent emphatic

Kei te karangatia te ope e te wahine.
The group is being called by the woman.
Passive sentences - tikina...

E whakatō kūmera ana a Pou rāua ko Hema, e tākaro ana he rōpu tamariki i roto i te māra.
Pou and Hema were planting kūmera, and a group of children were playing in the garden.
Gerund phrases (fence building, bread baking, dishes washing...) - tunu parāoa...

Kāore te kapa haka i te waiata.
The haka group is not singing.
Negations of the present tense (I am not working) - Kāore... i te...

Ka puta taua tini ki waho o te .
That group went out of the pā.
Ka used to indicate the past - ka

Ka whakatika te ope tamariki nei, ka tātou i a rātou te haere.
The group of young people got ready and girded themselves for the journey.
Ka used to indicate the past - ka

Ka haere te ope o Ngāti-Kahukoka i mua o ēnei.
The Ngāti-Kahukoka group went in front of them.
Ka used to indicate the past - ka

Ka hoki te ope ki tana .
That group returned to its pā.
Ka used to indicate the past - ka

Ka tae te ope ki ā rātou mea i mahia mai i Āwhitu.
The group took their things which had been made in Āwhitu.
Ka used to indicate the past - ka

Ka karanga atu te rōpū whakaeke ki ngā tangata whenua.
The group ascending onto the marae calls back to the people of the land/marae.
Ka used to indicate the past - ka

Kāore te kapa haka e waiata i te hui.
The haka group will not sing at the gathering.
Negations of the future (I will not go) - Kāore... e...

I piki ake mātou ki te tihi o Taranaki maunga.
Our group climbed to the summit of Mount Taranaki.
Up - ake

I tatari te ope i te teihana.
The group waited at the station.
Using 'i' to mean 'in', 'by' or 'at' - i

Ki te tae mai he ope, me pōhiri.
If a group arrives, they must be welcomed.
If using ki - ki

I a mātou i Rānana ka tūtaki ki a Mere i a rātou e hoko ana i ng`1a parāoa wīwī.
While they were in London, they met Mary and her group while they were buying French bread.
While... - i... e... ana, ka...

I spoke in order for the group to not trust me.
I spoke in order for the group to trust me.
In order not to... - kia... kore ai

Tāmaki-makau-rau te kapa nei.
This group is from Auckland.

Haumi e, Hui e! Tāiki e!
Join together, unite, the group is ready to progress for the purpose of coming together.

Mahi ā-rōpū.
Work as a group .

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