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tekau - ten

tekau - ten

Ko tēnei he tekau tana taraka.
This is a ten ton truck.
Identity sentences - ko...

Kua eke atu ia ki ngā taumata o te waru tekau mā whitu tau.
She has reached the age of eighty seven years.
Simple sentences: past completed tense - kua

Ka mahia he waka mō tekau tāngata,.
A ten-man canoe was made.
Passive sentences - tikina...

Kāore aku tamariki, engari he tokomaha āku irāmutu, tekau mā rima rātou.
I don't have any kids, but I have many nieces and nephews, there are fifteen of them.
Conjunctions - but - engari

I te tekau karaka.
At ten o'clock.
Past - specifying a particular time - i te

I te tekau mā tahi karaka i te ata te karakia.
The service was at 11 am.
Past - specifying a particular time - i te

I tērā tau ka rima tekau ia.
He will be fifty next birthday.
Last week, last month, last year - tērā

Ā, tekau mātou, tokowaru ngā tamariki.
Ah, there are ten of us, eight kids.
Numbering people - tokorua, tokotahi...

Hei te tekau karaka.
See you at ten o'clock.
Telling time - kara

Hei te tekau mā tahi karaka.
See you at eleven o'clock.
Telling time - kara

Hei te tekau mā rua karaka.
See you at twelve o'clock.
Telling time - kara

E rua tekau meneti ngā tītī e tunua ana i roto it te umu.
The muttonbirds were roasted in the hot oven for twenty minutes.
Telling time - kara

Ā te tekau karaka tīmata ai te karakia.
The service starts at ten o'clock.
Telling time - kara

Ko te tekau mā tahi karaka.
It is eleven o'clock.
Telling time - kara

E whā tekau mā whā ō tātou manuhiri.
We have forty-four guests.
Counting over ten -

Ki tōku whakaaro, e rima tekau aua kāinga.
In my estimation, there are fifty of those settlements.
How many are there? - E hia? Tokohia?

Tekau mā waru ngā pereti, a rua tekau mā tahi ā tātou kapu.
There are eighteen plates and we have twenty-one cups.
How many are there? - E hia? Tokohia?

Kāore e tekau mā rua ngā tamariki.
There are not twelve children.
Negating counting people - Kāore e toko...

Whā tekau hēkena.
40 seconds.

Rua tekau meneti mai i te ono karaka.
Twenty minutes past six o'clock.

Tekau meneti ki te tekau karaka.
Ten to ten.

E toru tekau tau tōna pakeke.
She is thirty years old.

E rua tekau mā tahi ōku tau.
I'm twenty one years old.

Whitu tekau mā waru tōna pakeke.
She is seventy-eight years old.

E rima tekau mā whā tōna pakeke.
She is fifty-four years old.

E toru tekau mā tahi ōna tau.
She is thirty-one years old.

E rua tekau mā iwa tōna pakeke.
He is twenty-nine years old.

Āhua rua tekau ngā tāngata i tae mai ki te hui.
About 20 people came to the meeting.

E rua tekau ngā tau i mahi ai ahau i tēnei pukapuka.
I have been working on this book for twenty years.

E ono tekau tau tōna pakeke, ka ū ia ki ngā tikanga Māori i a ia i te māra.
She is 60 years old. She is resolute in Māori customs in the garden.

Nā wai tēnei rima tekau heneti?
Whose is this 50 cents?

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