#60: My mother is cake baking
the gerund
Gerund phrases (fence building, bread baking, dishes washing...) — tunu parāoa...
Two structures describe actions. A full verb clause uses kei te + verb + i + object (e.g., Kei te kai au i tētahi āporo – I am eating an apple). A shorter activity expression drops i and places the noun after the verb (e.g., Kei te kai āporo au – I am apple-eating), describing the general activity rather than a specific act.