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#53: My tummy is sore

All the possessive pronouns in the o category
A and o categories intro — a, o Singular possessive pronouns in the o category — o
In the o category, possessive pronouns show who something belongs to. Examples include tōku (my), tōu (your), tōna (his/her), tō tāua (ours including you), tō māua (ours excluding you), tō kōrua (yours two), tō rāua (theirs two), tō tātou (ours all), tō mātou (ours not you), tō koutou (yours all), and tō rātou (theirs).

 

 

In the o category, i say my with the word tōku

Now, body parts are in i category, so if I want to say my tummy is sore, I would say

Kei te mamae tōku puku.

 

The word for belonging to you is tōu in the o category 

So

Ka haere atu rātou ki tōu whare

They will go to your house

 

The word for his or her is tōna 

And parents are in the o category so...

Kua mate tōna pāpā 

His father has died

 

In the dual, talking about two people 

Belonging to you and me in the o category is tō tāua 

He pakaru tō tāua waka 

Our car is broken 

And is tō because transpōrt is in the o category 

 

The two of us, not you is māua 

, so belonging to us two but not you is tō māua 

He wai tō māua 

The two of us have water

 

If you two have something in the ō category, tō kōrua 

 I oma tō kōrua māmā ki te hokomaha 

Your mother ran to the supermarket.

 

If those two have something 

Tō rāua 

He whare hou tō rāua 

Those two have a new house

 

And in the plural 

Tō tātou is belonging to all of us

Kei te aroha rātou ki tō tātou whenua

They all love our land

 

Tā mātou is belonging to us but not you

Ka haere atu mātou ki tō mātou whare

We will go to our house

 

Tā koutou is belonging to you all but not me

Kua kōrero ahau ki tō koutou māmā 

I have spoken to your mother 

 

And lastly 

Tŏ rātou is used for things in the o category that belong to them

Kei te mohio au ki tō rātou pāpā 

I know their father

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Vocabulary

ā • āe • ahau • āhua • ake • ake, ake, ake • āku • āna • ātaahua • atu • au • āwangawanga • e hoa mā • e tū • engari • haere mā raro • haunga • hiahia • hiainu • hiakai • hiamoe • hīkoi • hoa • hōhā • hōiho • hou • i • ia • iho • iti • ka • kaha • katoa • kau • keke • kēkē • ki • kia • Kia kaha! • kia ora • kino • koe • koro • kōrua • koutou • kōwhai • kua •  • mai • māua • māuiui • ngenge • noho • nui • ō • oma • ora • pai • pango • pēhea? •  • rātau • rāua • rūma moe • taku • tama • tamaiti • tamariki • tana • tātou • tāua • tere • tino •  • wāhine • waiata • whaea • whero
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