We know how to say: "I am going" and "you are good" and "he is sitting".
What if we want to say "the man is going", or "the teacher is good" or "the dog is sitting"?
Well, firstly, as you can imagine, there are te reo Māori words for almost everything. A dog is a kurī, a woman is a wahine, children are tamariki - and there are thousands more to learn!
It is fairly straightforward how to make one of these sentences. We simply replace au with the person or thing doing the action. For example, instead of saying:
Kei te haere ahau.
I am going.
we can say:
Kei te haere te wahine.
The woman is going.
or:
Kei te haere te kōtiro.
The girl is going.