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tunu - to cook, roast

Ko wai kei te tunu i te kai?
Who is cooking the food?
Asking who - Ko wai...?

Kei te tunu koe i te tina?
Are you cooking dinner?
Simple sentences: present tense with a verb - kei te

E tunu ana a Mere i te kai.
Mere is cooking the food.
Simple sentences: present tense - e... ana

I mahi au i te māra, ā, āe, i pānui pukapuka, ā, i tunu hoki au i te kai te whānau.
I worked in the garden, yeah, I read books and I cooked for the family.
Simple sentences: past tense - i

I te tunu a Hana i te keke te hui.
Hana was baking the cake for the meeting.
Simple sentences: past tense - i te

Ka tunu a Mere i te kai te whānau ā te .
Mere will cook dinner for the family tonight.
Simple sentences: past tense - i te

Ka tunu ahau i te kai.
I will cook food.
Simple sentences: future tense - ka

Me tunu a pāpā i te kai.
Dad should cook the food.
Simple sentences: you should - me

Me tunu kai koe!
You should cook!
Simple sentences: you should - me

Me tunu te kai.
The food should be cooked.
Simple sentences: you should - me

Ka tunu au i te parāoa ā tēnei .
I'll bake the bread tonight.
Sentences with i - i

Kei te kāuta a Hera e tunu kai ana.
Hera is in the cook house cooking dinner.
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Ia , ia , tunu ai au i te hapa.
Every day, (each day) I always cook dinner.
Habitual action - ai

Ia , ia , tunu ai au i te hapa.
Every day I always cook dinner.
Habitual action - ai

Pēnei a Māmā e tunu ana koe i te parakuihi.
Mum thought you were cooking breakfast.
I thought mistakenly - Pēnei au...

Pēnei a Pāpā e tunu ana koe i te tina.
Dad thought you were cooking dinner.
I thought mistakenly - Pēnei au...

Nāku i tunu te kai.
I cooked the food.
Past agent emphatic - nā - agent emphatic

Nāna i tunu te keke.
It was him/her who baked the cake.
Past agent emphatic - nā - agent emphatic

wai kai i tunu inapō
Who was the one who cooked your food last night?
Past agent emphatic - nā - agent emphatic

Māku e tunu te hapa.
I will cook dinner.
Future agent emphatic - māku

Māna e tunu te hapa.
He will cook dinner.
Future agent emphatic - māku

Māku tātou hapa e tunu a tēnei .
I will be the one to cook our dinner tonight.
Future agent emphatic - māku

Kaua e tunu i te kina!
Don't cook sea-eggs!
Negative active commands - Don't! - Kaua e..., kāti...

E tunu keke ana a Māmā me te whakapai whare anō.
Mum cooked a cake whilst cleaning the house.
While at the same time/and in addition - me te... anō

E tunu parāoa ana a Kauri.
Kauri's baking bread.
Gerund phrases (fence building, bread baking, dishes washing...) - tunu parāoa...

Ka taea e koe te tunu keke?
Can you bake cakes?
I am able... - Ka taea e...

Ka tunu keke ia hei whakanui i tōku huritau.
She will bake a cake in order to celebrate my birthday.
For the purpose of - hei

He mea hoko pea te keke nei. Tērā tonu pea. Ehara ia i te tangata tunu keke, ki taku mōhio.
I think this cake might have been bought. Probably. As far as I know he's not a cake-maker.
Perhaps - Tērā pea

Kāore ia i tunu i te kai.
He didn't cook the food.
Negations of the past tense - Kāore... i...

Kāore i tua atu i tōku māmā te tunu keke.
There's no one better than my mother for baking cakes.
There's no one better than... - Kāore i...

Kāore a Mere e tunu i te kai te whānau ā te .
Mere will not cook dinner for the family tonight.
Negations of the future (I will not go) - Kāore... e...

Kāore a Mere e tunu ana i te kai.
Mere is not cooking the food.
Negations of e... ana... sentences - kāore... e... ana...

Kāore a Hana i te tunu i te keke te hui.
Hana was not baking the cake for the meeting.
Negations of the past tense - Kāore... i te...

Mēnā ka haramai koe, ka tunu kai au tāua.
If you come over, I will cook food for us.
If (using mehemea) - mehemea, mehe, mēnā

pai hoki ki te tunu keke!
How good you are at baking cakes!
How... - Te... hoki...

Ehara i a koe te kai i tunu inapō.
You didn't cook our food last night.
Negating the past agent emphatic - ehara i...

Nōnahea koe i tunu ai i tēnei keke?
When did you cook the cake?
Asking 'when was?' When did something happen? - Nōnahea, inahea

Ko wai kāore i te tunu i te kai?
Who isn’t cooking the food?
Who didn't? - Ko wai kāore...

Ka tunu ia i te kai.
He will cook food.

He koretake a Tīwana ki te tunu keke.
Tīwana is useless at baking cakes.

Ehara i a māua te kai i tunu. rāua irāmutu i tunu.
It wasn't us two who cooked the food. It was their nephew.

I tunu au.
I cooked.

I tunu parakuihi au.
I cooked breakfast.

Āe ana mai, haere ana, noho ana ia, tunu manu ana nāna.
She agreed and went off, he stayed and cooked birds for himself.

Kei te haere ia ki te marae ki te tunu i ngā kai te hui.
He is going to the marae to cook food for the meeting.

Kei te tunu a Mere i te kai.
Mere is cooking the food.

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