Māori Word Lists
Level 6
āwhea? - when? (future time)
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a - [a name follows] | Not translatable into an English word; nominal particle, used before names and pronouns: a Mere, a kōrua, a ia.
ā kāti - all right then
ā kōrua - your (plural, addressed to two people)
ā koutou - your [plural, addressed to three or more people]
ā mātou - our [plural, theirs and mine]
ā māua - our [plural, his or hers and mine]
ā rātou - their [plural - three or more people]
ā rāua - their [plural, two people]
ā rohe - local
ā tātou - our [plural, three or more people]; our
ā tāua - our [plural, yours and mine]
ā tērā tau - next year
ā tērā wiki - next week
āe - yes
Aerana - Ireland
aewa - unhealthy
aha - what
ahai? - who?
ahakoa - although
ahatia - what happened to (pass of aha)
ahau - I, me
āhea? - when? (future time)
āheinga - ability, opportunity
āheitanga - ability, capacity, capability, competence, accessibility.
ahi - fire
ahi kā - ownership through occupation
ahi mumura - bonfire
ahiahi - early evening, afternoon
Ahitereiria - Australia
aho - light, to shine
ahokore - wifi
ahu - to look after
āhua - shape, form, appearance
āhua mate - unhealthy
āhua ngākau - mood
āhuaatua - rude
ahuahu - care for; heap
āhuareka - pleasant; pleased
āhuatanga - property, characteristic, feature, circumstance (āhua + nominal suffix -tanga)
ahunga - direction
ahurea - culture
ahurei - unique
Ahuriri - Napier
āhuru - comfortable
ahuwhenua - crops, agriculture
ai - Not translatable into an English word; verbal particle; used in various subordinate structures, for example relative clauses, adverbials, ...ai
ai! - oh!
āianei - now, soon, today
aihe - dolphin
aihikirīmi - icecream
aihunga - frost
aikiha - handkerchief
aikiha pepa - tissue
āio - calm
Airani - Ireland
aitanga - descendants
aituā - disaster, accident, misfortune; to suffer a disaster
aka - vine
aka wāina - grapevine
Ākarana - Auckland
ākau - shore, coast
ake - up, upwards (Various uses and meanings, eg upwards, as in: piki ake, titiro ake; comparative as in: nui ake; own, as in: tōku whānau ake)
ake, ake, ake - for ever and ever
Āketina - Argentina
āki - smash against
ākina - be smashed against (pass. of āki)
ākiri - throw away
ākiritia - be thrown away (pass. of ākiri)
ako - to learn, to teach
akoako - learning, to consult together, to practice
akomanga - classroom
akona - learned (pass. of ako)
ākonga - student
akoranga - thing that is taught or learnt; lesson
akoranga nui - lecture
akoranga whāiti - tutorial
aku - my, mine (plural form of taku, neutral for possession category)
Ākuhata - August
akutō - late
āmai - giddy
āmaimai - nervous
Amerika - America
amiami - sweet-smelling shrub, herb
āmine - amen
āmio - to circle
āmiomio - turn round and round; be giddy
amiorangi - satellite
Amiria - Amelia
amo - carry; stretcher
amohia - be carried (pass. of amo)
amorangi - leader; priest
āmua - future, time to come
amuamu - groan, grumble, complain
amuri ake nei - time to come; afterwards; later
ana - indeed, when, if
anahera - angel
anake - only, just, alone
anamata - time to come, hereafter, the future
ānana! - wow!
anei - here, by me
ānewa - weak
ānewanewa - giddy
anga - seashell
angaanga - head; sea shell
anganui - to face towards
angi - freely
angiangi - thin (clothes, etc)
angitū - be successful, lucky, fortunate
aniana - onion
ānini - headache
āniwaniwa - rainbow
ānō - as though; as if
anu - cold; spit
anuanu - disgusting; disgusted
anuhe - caterpillar
anuhea - ugly
ao - world, dawn, cloud
aoake - the next day
Aoraki - Mount Cook
aorangi - planet
Aotearoa - New Zealand
apa - layer; level
apakapa - wing; flutter
Āperira - April
āpiha - officer
āpiti - add; put together
apo - to gather together
apoapo - entangle
āpōpō - tomorrow
āpōpō atu - at some point in the future
āporo - apple
apu - gather greedily; gust
apuapu - gobble
āputa - space, interval, gap
arā - over there, away from us both; that is, namely
ara hīkoi - footpath
ara tereina - railway track
ara whakawhiti - pedestrian crossing
arahanga - bridge; ladder
araheke - stairs
ārahi - to lead, guide
ārahina - (pass) be led
ārai - curtain; to screen off, block
ārai tīkākā - sunscreen
āraia - (pass) be warded off
āraitanga - eclipse
Aranga - Easter; risen (n)
ārani - orange [fruit]
araoma - runway
arapiki - stairs
arapoka - tunnel
arapū - alphabet
Ararā! - There!
arata - lettuce
arataki - to guide; to lead
aratakina - (pass) be guided; be led
arawhata - bridge; ladder; stairs
areare - to be open, clear, receptive
arero - tongue; point of taiaha
arewhana - elephant
ariā - feeling; theory, concept
ariā hirahira - special effects
ariki - chief, leader
aro - to face, turn towards, take notice of, pay attention to
aroaro - front; presence
aroha - love, sympathy, compassion
aroha mai - sorry (show me some sympathy)
arohaina - (pass) be loved
arohatia - loved (pass of aroha), love!
aromatawai - assessment
aronga - direction
aronga kē - opposites
aronga nui - main focus, subject [of a sentence]
aronga tuarua - secondary focus, object [of a sentence]
arotahi - contact lens
arotake - to evaluate, review (v); review, audit (n)
arotakenga - evaluation, review
arunga - a chase (n; from aru - to chase)
āta - gently, carefully, deliberately
ātaahua - beautiful, well formed
atamai - clever, intelligent
atamira - platform, stage
atapō - before dawn
ātārangi - shadow
atarau - moonlight
atarua - bad eyesight
atatū - dawn, daybreak
atawhai - to show kindness towards
atawhaitia - to be shown kindness (pass. of atawhai)
ate - liver; seat of affections
ātea - outer space
āti - descendant
atu - away from current orientation
(often not translatable by a separate English word)
atua - god
āu - your, ā category possession (plural form of tāu)
aua - those (previously mentioned, plural of taua)
aua atu - who cares?
auahi - smoke
auau - to bark, howl
auautia - barked, howled (pass of auau)
auē - alas! (an expression of woe, sadness)
auē! - alas!
aukati - border, boundary (n); to dam a stream, prevent one from passing (v)
aukatingia - to be stopped (pass. of aukati)
aukume - magnet
aumangea - champion; resilient, confident
aupuru - cushion
auraki - mainstream
autaha - to one side
autaia - not bad, better than expected
autaia tonu - not too bad!
autāne - brother-in-law (of a woman)
auwahine - sister-in-law (of a man)
awa - river, stream
awaawa - valley
āwangawanga - worried
awarewa - elevator
awatea - daylight
āwenewene - sweets (n); sickly sweet (adj)
āwha - storm
awhe - to span, encircle
Awherika - Africa
awhi - to hug, embrace
āwhina - to help
āwhinatia - helped (pass of āwhina)
āwhiowhio - whirlpool; whirlwind
awhitia - to be embraced (pass - awhi + tia)
e - by; of course; a term of address follows; [in the future]; particle used in a negation
e ai ki - according to, in someone else's opinion
E hē! - No! that's wrong!
e hia? - how many?; how many are?
e hia? - how many?
e hoa - friend (when speaking to someone)
e hoa mā - friends (when speaking to a group of people)
e iwa - nine [things]
e iwa karaka - nine o'clock
e kī - you don't say!
e kō! - girl!
e kore - will not
e kore e taea - impossible
e koree - will not
e mea ana - you bet!
e noho - sit down
e noho rā - farewell (said by those leaving), goodbye to people staying
e ono - six [things]
e ono karaka - six o'clock
e rima - five [things]
e rima karaka - five o'clock
e rua - two [things]
e rua karaka - two o'clock
e tahi karaka - one o'clock
e tekau karaka - ten o'clock
e tekau mā rua karaka - twelve o'clock
e tekau mā tahi karaka - eleven o'clock
e tika! - well, well!
e toru - three [things]
e toru karaka - three o'clock
e tū - Stand up!
e waru - eight [things]
e waru karaka - eight o'clock
e whā - four [things]
e whā karaka - four o'clock
e whia? - how many?
e whitu - seven [things]
e whitu karaka - seven o'clock
ea - be avenged; be paid for; worth
ehara - exclamation: sure enough, without a doubt; not
ehara ehara - you bet!
ehara i te hanga! - it is no ordinary thing!
ehara... i - not
ēhea - which
ēhea? - which (plural)?
ēkara - eagle
eke - to embark, get onto; riding
ekengia - (pass) to be boarded; to be climbed; to be earned
ēnā - those, near you (plural of tēnā)
ēnei - these, near me (plural of tēnei)
engari - but
epa - to throw at
ērā - those (over there)
erangi - but
ētahi - some, a few (plural of tētahi)
ētehi - some (plural of tētehi, variant of ētahi)
ēwhea? - which? (plural)
hā - breath; flavour
hae - to cut; jealous
haea - (pass) to be cut
haeana - iron (for clothes)
haeata - beam of light; dawn; laser beam
haehae - to cut up; to tear
haehaea - to be cut up; to be torn (pass of haehae)
haenga - iron
haere - go, come
haere mā raro - to travel on foot
haere mai - welcome
Haere mai! - Welcome! Come here!
haere rā - goodbye to people going
haerea - travelled (pass of haere)
hāereere - to wander, roam
haerenga - journey (n); travel (v)
haerenga pokanoa - joyride
haeretia - went (pass of haere)
hāhi - church, religion
hai - as, for (variant of hei)
haika - anchor
Haina - China
hainatanga - signature; signing
hāka - jar
hākari - feast
hake - hockey
hākerekere - crowd; hair cut short
hākete - jacket
haki - flag
Hakihea - December
hākinakina - sport; to play sport
hakiraratanga - insult (nom)
hākirikiri - vague
hako - ugly; clown
hākoro - elderly man
haku - complain
hakune - deliberate, careful
hama - hammer
hāmama - open, gaping
hāmamamama - yawn
hāmana - salmon
hamarara - umbrella
hāmeme - grumble; mutter
hāmipēka - hamburger
hamo pango - coward
Hāmoa - Samoa, Samoan
Hāmuere - January
hamumu - speak softly; mutter
Hana - Santa Claus, Father Christmas
hanawiti - sandwich
hāneanea - sofa
hanehane - decay
hanga - construction, practice, thing
hanga - to build, erect, make (v); construction, practice (n)
hangaa - built (pass. of hanga)
hāngai - opposite, facing
hangaia - built (hanga + passive suffix -ia)
hāngaitanga - place opposite, at the place
hangarau - technology; funny (amusing); joke
hangareka - clown
hangarua - to recycle; recycling
hangatītī - tease
hāngi - traditional earth oven
hāngū - passive
Hānuere - January
hao - to catch in a net, a net
haona - horn
hāora - hour; oxygen
hapa - mistake; supper, dinner
hāpai - carry; lift up
hāpaitia - (pass) be carried
hāpara - to slit, cut
hāparangi - to shout, bawl
hāpiapia - sellotape; glue
hapori - public, community
hapū - subtribe; to be pregnant
hara - to make a mistake; mistake
harakeke - flax
haramai - to arrive
hararei - holiday
Haratua - May
hārau - graze
harawene - jealous
hari - to feel happy; to take or carry
hari koa - glad, pleased, overjoyed
haria - to be carried (hari + passive suffix -a)
harihari - happy
harikoa - happy, joyful, euphoric
harirū - shake hands
harore - mushroom
haruru - to resound; a heavy sound
hātākēhi - hardcase, funny
Hātarei - Saturday
hāte - shirt
hāte kēhi - hard case, funny
hātea - faded
hātepe - cut off
hatete - fire, burner, heater
hau - wind, air, breath
hau ārai - ozone layer
hau kāinga - home
hauā - crippled, lame
hauāuru - west; west wind
hauhake - harvest
hauhakea - (pass) be dug up
hauhakena - harvest! harvested (pass. of hauhake)
hauhaketia - harvested (pass. of hauhake)
haumaruru - moody, sulky, sullen
haumarutanga - security
haunga - smelly
hāunga anō - except for
hāunga ia - except for
hauora - health, healthy
haupaoro - golf
haupapa - an ambush
haupū - heap
haurangi - drunk
hauraro - north; north wind
haurua - half
haurua mai i te iwa karaka - half past nine
haurua mai i te ono karaka - half past six
haurua mai i te rima karaka - half past five
haurua mai i te rua karaka - half past two
haurua mai i te tahi karaka - half past one
haurua mai i te tekau karaka - half past ten
haurua mai i te tekau mā rua karaka - half past twelve
haurua mai i te tekau mā tahi karaka - half past eleven
haurua mai i te toru karaka - half past three
haurua mai i te waru karaka - half past eight
haurua mai i te whā karaka - half past four
haurua mai i te whitu karaka - half past seven
hautai - sponge
hautō - drawer; chest of drawers
hautoru - to divide into thirds (v); a third (n)
hautū - guide, lead
haututū - mischievous
hauwarea - to be weak, insignificant, lean
hauwhā - quarter
hauwhā ki te iwa karaka - quarter to nine
hauwhā ki te ono karaka - quarter to six
hauwhā ki te rima karaka - quarter to five
hauwhā ki te rua karaka - quarter to two
hauwhā ki te tahi karaka - quarter to one
hauwhā ki te tekau karaka - quarter to ten
hauwhā ki te tekau mā rua karaka - quarter to twelve
hauwhā ki te tekau mā tahi karaka - quarter to eleven
hauwhā ki te toru karaka - quarter to three
hauwhā ki te waru karaka - quarter to eight
hauwhā ki te whā karaka - quarter to four
hauwhā ki te whitu karaka - quarter to seven
hauwhā mai i te iwa karaka - quarter past nine
hauwhā mai i te ono karaka - quarter past six
hauwhā mai i te rima karaka - quarter past five
hauwhā mai i te rua karaka - quarter past two
hauwhā mai i te tahi karaka - quarter past one
hauwhā mai i te tekau karaka - quarter past ten
hauwhā mai i te tekau mā rua karaka - quarter past twelve
hauwhā mai i te tekau mā tahi karaka - quarter past eleven
hauwhā mai i te toru karaka - quarter past three
hauwhā mai i te waru karaka - quarter past eight
hauwhā mai i te whā karaka - quarter past four
hauwhā mai i te whitu karaka - quarter past seven
hāwhe - half (n); to halve (v)
hāwhetia - to be halved (pass. of hāwhe)
hē - wrong; error, mistake
He aha - what?
he aha ... ai? - why?
he aha ai? - why?
he aha? - what?
hē manawa - heart attack
hea - where?
hea? - where?
heahea - silly
hei - at, in, with, for, to, as a; hay; necklace (Various meanings, eg future preposition)
hei aha - never mind
hei aha noa iho - there's no point, don't bother!
hei aha! - never mind!
hei aha? - what for?
hei konā - goodbye (on telephone)
hei konei rā - goodbye (said by those leaving)
hei mahi - exercises
hei tā... - according to...
hei taira tēnei - for example
heihei - chicken
heitiki - greenstone pendant
heke - rafter (n); to descend, get off (v)
hekea - to be descended (pass. of heke)
hēkena - second (time)
hekenga - descent (heke + nominal suffix -nga)
hekerangi - parachute
hekeretari - secretary
heketā - hectare
heketua - toilet (that you sit on when you're in the wharepaku)
hēki - egg
hēki Aranga - Easter egg
hēki kōhua - boiled egg
hēki kōrori - omelette
hēki parai - poached egg
hemo - to pass by, be gone; died, die
hēneti - cents
hēnimita - centimetre
hēoi - and so, therefore
heoi anō - however; so so
heoti - however; and so
hepapa - zebra
hēpara - shepherd
Hepetema - September
Heptema - September
hēra - sail
hēramana - sailor
here - to tie up, fasten, bind with cord
here - to tie, to bind (v0: dog lead (n)
Here-turi-kōkā - August
herea - tied up (here + passive suffix -a)
herehere - prisoner; captivity
heremu - kitchen
Heretaunga - Hastings
heru - comb
herua - combed (pass of heru)
hetiheti - hedgehog
heu - pull apart; razor; to shave
hī - to catch fish with a line
hīa - to be fished with a line (pass. of hi)
hia? - how many?
hiahia - to want
hiahiatia - wanted, desired; want! (pass. of hiahia)
hiainu - thirst, thirsty
hiakai - hungry
hiako - skin; bark (of tree)
hiamo - excited
hiamoe - sleepy
hiamoemore - sleepy
hianga - to play around, be mischievous
hiawai - thirsty
hīhī - ray of sun
hihi kōkiri - X-ray
hihiani - radar
hihiko - active; quick
hihiratia - go over carefully! check! (pass. of hihira)
hihiri - industrious; long for
hīhō - donkey
hika - a term of address for both sexes (eg 'E hika')
hika! - goodness me!
hikahika - rub
hīkaikai - wiggle
hīkaka - to be rash, brisk, eager; excited.
hikareti - cigarettes
hiki - to carry in the arms, to nurse
hikihiki - to nurse (v); ski lift (n)
hīkina - lift! lifted (pass)
hikitia - (pass) be raised, be lifted
hiko - electricity
hīkoi - to walk, step, tread
hīkoitia - walked (pass of hīkoi)
hiku - end, rear; tail of a fish or reptile
hīmene - hymn
hīmoemoe - grapefruit
himu - hip
hina - grey hair
hīnaki - eel-pot
hinapōuri - sadness
hine - term of address for a girl: E hine!
hinengaro - mind, intellect
hinga - to fall from an upright position; to fall (and not be able to get up again)
Hingapoa - Singapore
hingareti - singlet
hinu - oil, fat
hīoi pepa - peppermint
hiore - tail (of four-legged animal)
hipa - to pass by
hipi - sheep
hipohipo - hippopotamus
hīpoki - to cover; covering
hipokina - (pass) be covered
hira - great; numerous
hirahira - special, prized
hīrangi - heatwave
hīrawhe - giraffe
hīrere - to rush; waterfall; shower
hiripa - slipper
hiriwa - silver
hiriwiri - screwdriver
hītako - yawn
hītaratara - goosebumps
hīteki - to walk on tip toe, prance on one foot, strut
hītekiteki - tiptoe
hīti - sheet
hītimi - marble; marbles
hītoki - hop
hītori - history
hiwa - watchful
hiwi - line of descent; ridge of a hill
hiwitia - pull back, jerk! (pass. of hiwi)
hoa - friend; partner; spouse
hoahoa - attendant
Hoake! - Let's all go!
hōanga - sandpaper
hoari - sword
hoariri - enemy, opponent
Hoatu! - You go, I'll stay!
hoe - to paddle, row (v); oar (n)
hoe waka - canoeing
hoea - (pass) to be rowed
hoeha - saucer
hōhā - annoyed, bored (adj), a nuisance (n)
hōhipera - hospital
hōhonu - deep (adj); depth (n)
hohoro - quick
hohou rongo - make peace
hoi - deaf
hōia - soldier, warrior
hōia taputapu tākaro - toy soldiers
hoiho - yellow-eyed penguin
hōiho pīoio - rocking horse
hoihoi - too noisy
hoihoi! - be quiet!
hoki - to go back, return; also, indeed
hoki mai - return here
hokia - returned (pass. of hoki)
hokihoki - return separately
hokimai - return
hokinga - return
(hoki + nominal suffix -nga)
hoko - to buy, sell, purchase
hoko ki tai - export
hoko ki uta - import
hokohoko - to shop, trade
hokohoko hanumi - jumble sale
hokohoko karāti - garage sale
hokomaha - supermarket
hokona - sold (hoko + passive suffix -na)
hokorima - 100
hokowhitu - band of warriors
homai - give (to the speaker)
hōmiromiro - white-breasted North Island tomtit
honae - wallet
hone - to plunder, acquire wrongfully (v); ocean swell (n)
hongehongeā - boring
hongere - channel (TV), TV channels
hongi - pressing noses
hongia - nose was pressed (pass. of hongi)
hongihongia - be known; know! (pass)
Hōngongoi - July
hono - to join together
honohono - continual
hononga - network; union; link; relationship
hōnore - honour
honu - turtle
honu whenua - tortoise
hōpa - sofa
hōpane - saucepan
hōpara - belly; sightseeing
hope - waist, hip
hopi - soap
hopi makawe - shampoo
hopo - to be fearful, apprehensive, overawed
hopohopo - panic
hopu - to catch
hopu ataata - video recorder
hōpua - pond, puddle; pool of liquid
hōpua kaukau - swimming pool
hopuhopu - to catch
hopukia - caught (pass. of hopu)
hopukina - to be seized, snatched, caught
hopuoro - microphone
hopureo - tape deck
hora - display; scatter; spread out
horahia - (pass) be spread out; be displayed
hore - bare, bald; not
hore rawa - not at all
horekau - absolutely no!, absolutely not!
horihori - lying
hōrite - equalizer (football)
hōro - hall
horo puehu - vacuum cleaner
horoa - (pass) be fallen upon
horohoro - remove tapu
horoi - to wash, to clean
horoia - washed (pass of horoi)
horomi - to swallow
horomia - swallowed (pass. of horomi)
horopaki - context (n), to surround (v)
horopuehu - vacuum cleaner
hororē - vacuum cleaner
hororia - cleaned (pass. of horoi)
horowai - waterfall
horowhenua - avalanche, landslide
hōtēra - hotel
hōtiti totetote - salami
hōtoke - winter, cold
hotu - long for; sigh; sob
hōu - new, modern; fresh
houhou - unpleasant
houra - soda
hū - shoe
hū mahi - work boot
hua - product, fruit
hua hīmoemoe - grapefruit
hua rākau - fruit tree
hua whenua - vegetable
huahua - sketch, draw
huaina - named (pass of hua)
huaki - open
huakina - to open (huaki + passive suffix -na)
huakiwi - kiwifruit
huamata - salad
huanga - advantage, benefit
huangō - asthma; short breath
huapata - cereal
huarahi - street, path, road
huarākau - fruit
huarere - weather
huarite - rhyme
huata - spear
huatahi - an only child
huatau - polite
huawhenua - vegetables
huhu - a larva; type of beetle
huhua - numerous
hūhunu - barbecue; grumbling
hui - meeting; gathered
Hui-tanguru - February
huia - a treasured bird, now extinct
huihia - covered; cover! (pass. of huihi)
huihui - assembly, group, constellation
huihuinga - meeting
huinga - gathering, meeting
huirapa - flippers
Huitanguru - February
Huitene - Sweden
Huiterangi - Switzerland
huka - sugar
hukahuka - foam
hukapapa - frost
hukarere - snow
hukātara - hail
hūkuitia - scrubbed; scrub! (pass. of hūkui)
hūmārie - humble, easy going
hūmārire - peaceful, beautiful
huna - to hide
huna kanohi - a mask
hunaa - hidden (pass of huna)
hunahuna - concealed
hunaonga - daughter-in-law; son-in-law
hunarei - father-in-law; mother-inlaw
hunarere - father-in-law; mother-inlaw
Hune - June
hunga - group, people, company of people
hunga kore mahi - the unemployed
hunga pāpāho - the media
hungarei - father-in-law; mother-in-law
hungawai - father-in-law; mother-in-law
hunōnga - daughter-in-law; son-in-law
hunuhunu - to singe
hunuhunutia - singed (pass. of hunuhunu)
hupa - soup
hūpana - fly back; fly up
hūpeke - bend arms or legs; jump
hūperei - black orchid
hura kōhatu - unveiling
Hūrae - July
huri - to turn
huri noa - right around
hurihau - windmill
hurihia - be turned; be changed (pass of huri)
hurihuri - to turn round and round, over and over
hurikaikamo - eyelash
huringa - turning, conversion, changing
huripara - wheelbarrow
huripoki - to turn over
huripokia - to be turned over; turn over! (pass. of huripoki)
huritau - birthday
hūrokuroku - jogging
huru - glow; hair; feather
huruhuru - fur
huti - hoist up
hutia - pick! break off !; picked, plucked, broken off (pass. of huti)
hūtu - suit (clothing)
hutupōro - rugby ball
hūwai - cockle
i - object of the sentence, from; concerning; in; in the past; on; → | Several uses; not always translatable with a specific English word.
Past tense verb particle: I haere ia ... She went
Past time marker: I tērā wiki ... Last week
Direct object marker: Ka kai ia i te āporo.
Source marker (from): Kua hoki mai au i te kura.
I ahau i te hokomaha, ka kite ahau i ōku hoa kura. - While I was at the supermarket, I saw my school friends.
i ētahi wā - sometimes
i hea - where?
i mā - via
i nāianei - now
i nanahi - yesterday
i te - was happening in the past
i te mea - because
i te rangi nei - this day
i te taha - at the side, with
i tēnēi ata - this morning
i tēnei pō - tonight
i tēnei rā - today
i tērā tau - last year
i tērā wiki - last week
I warewqare i ahau tō ingoa. - I have forgotten your name. (Your name has been forgotten by me.)
ia - he, she, him, her
ia anō - himself, herself
ia rā - every day
iāri - yard
ihi - power, essential force
ihiihi - terrified; excited; fear
īhipani - Vegemite
ihirangi - dawn
iho - downwards
ihu - nose
ihu oneone - an experienced person
ihuhūpē - an inexperienced person
ihupuku - an inexperienced person
ika - fish
ika a Whiro - veteran
ikarangi - galaxy
ikeike - to be high, lofty
īmera - email
inā - if, when
inahea? - when? (of the past)
ināia tonu nei - right now
ināianei - now
ināianei tonu - right now
inaki waka - traffic jam
inakuanei - just now
inakuarā - recently
inamata - formerly; immediately
inanahi - yesterday
īnanga - whitebait
inaoake - the day before yesterday
inaoakenui - three days ago
inaoakewake - several days ago
inapō - last night
inarapa - rubber
inatahīrā - the day before yesterday
inawhea? - when? (of the past)
ine - to measure
ine mahana - thermometer
ine taumaha - weigh
ineroa - tape measure
Ingarangi - England
Ingarani - England
Ingarihi - English
ingoa - name
ingoa kārangaranga - nickname
ingoa takakau - maiden name
ingoa tāpiri - nickname
ingoa whānau - surname
inihua - insurance
īnoi - beg; pray; request; prayer
īnoia - (pass) be prayed for; be requested
inu - to drink (v); drink (n)
inuinu - sip
inumia - [the liquid was] drunk (inu + mia; pass)
iPapa - iPad
ipo - darling
ipu - container, bowl; drinking glasses
ipu para - rubbish bag
ipu peita - paint pot
ipu-para - rubbish bin
ipui para - rubbish
ipurangi - internet
ira - freckle; gene
ira atua - of supernatural beings
ira rukeruke - radioactive
ira tangata - human life
ira! - over there!
iraira - freckle
irāmutu - niece, nephew
irawhiti - transgender
iri - to be hanging; rest upon
iriiri - baptise
irirangi - radio (usually as reo irirangi)
iroiro - vermin
iroriki - germ
ita - held firm; be committed
Itāria - Italy
iti - small, little
iti iho - smaller
itiiti - tiny
iwa - nine
iwi - tribe
iwi whānui - the public
ka - will happen | Verbal particle with a range of meanings; not directly translated with an English word
ka mau te wehi! - awesome!
ka mutu - and also, and so, furthermore
ka mutu pea - how marvellous!
ka pai! - good!
ka wani kē - you're clever! genius!
kaea - to lead [a haka]
kaha - strong, able
kahaki - kidnap; hijack
kahakina - (pass) be hijacked; be kidnapped
kaharoa - large drag net
kāheru - spade
kahikatea - white pine
kāho - barrel
kāhore - Negative used for verb sentences
kāhoretanga - negation
kāhu - harrier; hawk; chief
kahu kiwi - cloak made from kiwi feathers
kahu moe - pyjamas
kahu tangatanga - dressing gown
kāhui - group; cluster; flock
kāhui ariki - those of the highest rank
kahukahu - dressing gown
kahurangi - dark blue; woman of high status or rank
kahuwae - tights
kai - eat (v); food (n)
kai horo - to eat quickly
kai inati - overdose
kai kurī - dog food
kai moana - seafood
kai ōkākā - finger food
kai paipa - smoke cigarettes
kai roro - quiz
kai timotimo - snacks
kai-tohetaka - eating dandelion
kaiahuwhenua - farmer
kaiaka - merit
kaiaka-mīhini - mechanic
kaiako - teacher (kai- + ako)
kaiamo mēra - postie
kaiārahi - leader, guide
kaiauru - vandal
kaiāwhina - helper, assistant
kaieke hōiho - bareback rider
kaieke paihikara - trick cyclist
kaihana - cousin
kaihanga - creator; builder
kaihautū - leader; bus driver, pilot, truck driver
kaihe - donkey
kaihī - fisherman
kaihī ika - fisherman
kaihoko - seller
kaiiwi - strangers, foreigners
kaikā - eager, impatient
kaikaha - keen
kaikamo - eye
kaikanikani - dancer
kaikaranga - woman who calls on the Marae
kaikōhuru - murderer
kaikōrero - speaker, orator (kai- + kōrero)
kaikuti makawe - hairdresser
kaimahi - worker, employee (kai- + mahi)
kaimanga - vegetarian
kaimātai pūtaiao - scientists
kaimātai whatu - optician
kaimoana - seafood
kainga - (pass) be eaten
kāinga - home
kaingākau - passion; like
kaioma - runner
kaiotaota - vegetarian
kaipakeke - adult
kaipakihi - business
kaipara - athlete; athletics
kaipatu ahi - firefighter
kaipōkai tūārangi - astronaut
kaiponu - selfish; greedy
kaipuke - ship
kaipūtaiao - scientist (kai- + pūtaiao)
kairangi - excellence
kairapu hara - detective
kaireperepe - relation by marriage
kairīpoata - journalist
kairuku - diver
kaitā - big, sturdy of build
kaitaka - fine cloak with ornamental border; whipping-top
kaitākaro - player, sportsperson
(kai- + tākaro)
kaitapere - actor, actress
kaitaraiwa pahi - bus driver
kaitātaki - leader of a haka
kaitautoko - supporter, sponsor
kaitiaki - caretaker, caregiver (kai- + tiaki)
kaitiakitanga - guardianship
kaitiora - pirate
kaitirotiro - inspector
kaititiro - spectator
kaitoa! - serves you right!
kaitohutohu - coach (sports)
kaituhi - writer, author
kaituki - coxswain (a person who gives the time to the paddlers on a canoe)
kaituku mahi - employer
kaituku miraka - milkman
kaitunu - chef
kaituruki - tutor
kaiurungi - pilot
kaiwaiata - singer
kaiwawao - referee, umpire
kaiwhaiwhai - fan (music, sport)
kaiwhakaahua - photographer
kaiwhakaako - teacher
kaiwhakaatu - fashion model
kaiwhakahaere - manager, organiser (kai- + whakahaere)
kaiwhakarongo - listener
kaiwhakataetae - athlete; competitor
kaiwhakatangitangi - musician
kaiwhakatuma - terrorist
kaiwhakawā - a judge
kaiwhakaweti - bully
kākā - parrot
kaka rēhia - tracksuit
kākahu - clothing, garment
kākahu kaukau - togs
kākahu kura - school uniform
kākahu ōrite - uniform
kākahuria - (pass) be dressed
kākāiti - budgie
kakama - quick; active; smart, clever
kākano - seed
kakapa - flutter; throb
kakara - fragrance, scent, smell; to be delicious
kākāriki - green
kakati - sting; bite
kakau - handle
kakawa - sweat
kake - to climb
kakea - (pass) be climbed; be overcome
kakī - neck
kama - eager
kāmaka - a rock
kamakama - smart, clever; talkative; joyous
kāmehameha - priceless, invaluable
kāmera - camera
kāmera ataata - video camera
kāmera tere - speed camera
kāmeta - scarf
kamo - eye; eyelashes
kamokamo - twinkle; marrow, squash (the vegetable)
kamonga - eyelash
kamupene - company, business
kamupūtu - gumboot
kāmura - carpenter
kanae - mullet
kanapa - bright
kānapanapa - gleaming dark green (as deep water)
kānara - candle
kanekane - gingerbread
kānekeneke - move about; from place to place
kānewha - unripe; underdone
kanga - abuse; curse
kānga papā - popcorn
kānga pirau - rotten corn
kānga wai - rotten corn, formented corn
kangaia - cursed (pass. of kanga)
kangakanga - swear
kangaru - kangaroo
kāngia - (pass) be lit, be burnt
kani - to saw; a saw
kānihi - to patch [a garment]
kanikani - dance, to dance
kanikanitia - danced (pass. of kanikani)
kano - colour
kanohi - face
kao - cooked and dried kūmara
kaokao - ribs; armpit; side
kāore - negative used for verb sentences
kāore anō - not yet...
kāore e mōhiotia ana - unknown
kāore he tangata - nobody, no one
kāore i mōhiotia - unknown
Kāore i wareware i ahau tō ingoa. - I have not forgotten your name. (Your name has not been forgotten by me.)
kāore kau - not at all!; absolutely none!; absolutely no!
kapa - group, row of people, as in: kapa haka
kapa haka - Māori performing arts
kapahaka - concert party
kāpara - torch, hardwood
kāpata - cupboard
kāpata kākahu - wardrobe
kape - photocopy, copy; crescent (shape)
kāpene - captain
kāpeti - cabbage
kapi - to be covered or occupied (of space), filled with
kāpia - glue
kapiti - gorge; crevice; shut in
kapo - to grasp, snatch; flash; lightning
kapohia - (pass) be snatched
kapowai - dragon-fly
kapu - cup
kapu hēki - eggcup
kapua - cloud
kapuapua - cloudy
kāpui - to lace (shoes)
kapuranga - to take up by handfuls
kaputī - cup of tea
kara - colour
karaehe - class (school); glass
karāhe - glass, mirror
karahipi - scholarship
karaihe - grass
karaitiana - christian
karaka - orange (colour)
karakia - prayer, to pray
karakiatia - prayed (pass of karakia)
karamatamata - head of a tree, pinnacle
karamu - gram
karamuimui - swarm
karanga - to call
karangahia - called (karanga + -hia; pass)
kārangaranga - call frequently
karangatanga - relationship; relative; occupation
karangatia - (pass) be called; be welcomed
karani - granny, grandmother
karāone - crown
karapitihia - fastened together side by side; fasten together! (pass. of karapiti)
karapoi - around; surround; to be surrounded
karapoti - surround
karapotia - surrounded (pass of karapoti)
karapu - club, society
kararehe - animal
kararehe kōwao - wild animal
karate - karate
karāti - garage
karauna - crown; the Crown, government
karawa - relation, relative
karawaka - measles
karawhiu - whirl around, thrash around; debate; 'give it heaps'
karawhiua - (pass) be thrashed around
karawhiua! - give it heaps!
karawhuia - give it heaps!
kāre - no, not
kare ā-roto - emotions
kare-ā-roto - sweetheart
kārehu - spade
karekare - surf, waves
karekau - absolutely not!, absolutely no!
kareparāoa - cauliflower
karēpe - grape
karēpe tauraki - raisin
karera - light green
karere - message
karere hiko - e-mail
karetao - puppet; robot
kāreti - carrot
kārewa - buoy; float; surface of water
kāri - playing card
kāri moni - cash card
kāri nama - credit card
kāri utu-ā-hiko - eftpos card
karia - (pass) be dug
karihi - nuclear
karihi-kau - nuclear-free
kāriki - garlic
karo - dodge, avoid
karoro - seagull
karu - eye
karuhi - house
kāta - cart
kātahi - then
kātahi anō - now for the first time
kātahi anō... ka - only just
kātahi tonu nei - have just
kataina - laughed (pass. of kata)
katakata - to laugh and laugh, laughter
kati - close, shut
katia - shut (pass of kati); shut!
Katihiku - Cathy
katipō - venomous spider
kato - pluck
katoa - all
katoatia - all [passive of katoa]
katohia - plucked (pass of kato)
kau - swim; cow
kaua - negative word, do not, eg: Kaua e tangi
kaua e - don't
kaua rawa - absolutely don't
kauae - chin
kauaka - Negative word, do not (variant of kaua; eg:
Kauaka e tangi)
kauehu - muddy, murky
kauhau - recite; preach; speech; lecture
kauhoe - to swim
kauhoetia - swum (pass. of kaohoe)
kaui - shoelace, cord
kauika - school of fish; pod of whales
kaukau - to bathe
kaukauria - bathed (pass of kaukau)
kaumātua - elder; elderly
kaunihera - council
kaupane - head
kaupapa - topic, theme, plan, subject
kaupapa here - policy
kaupeka - season
kaupoai - cowboy
kaurori - to stir up, beat, whisk
kauroria - stirred up, whisked; whisk! (pass. of kauroria)
kāuta - cookshed
kaute - to count
kaute pēke - bank account
kautetia - counted (pass. of kaute)
kauwae - jaw
kauwhata - graph
kauwhau - recite; preach; lecture; speech
kawa - sour, yuck
kāwai - lineage
kawakawa - pepper tree
kāwana - government, governor
kāwanatanga - government (kāwana + nominal suffix -tanga)
kawe - to carry, convey
kawe rongo - headphones
kawea - brought (kawe + passive suffix -a)
kawenga - load, luggage, burden
(kawe + nominal suffix -nga)
kāwhaki - take by force
kāwhakina - (pass) be taken by force
kāwhe - calf
kāwhena - coffin
kawititanga o te ringaringa - wrist
kē - already; different; other; differently; rather; strange; actually
kēhi - suitcase
kehokeho - summit, hilltop, peak
kēhua - ghost
kei - Various uses, meanings, eg:
preposition, present time and place location; at the moment; it might be that...
kei a koe - you’re onto it
Kei hea - where?
kei hea? - where is?
kei mua - in front
kei muri - behind
kei reira - that's the one! right on!
kei te - at the moment; now
kei te aha? - what is... doing?
kei te pai - it's okay; I'm fine
kei whea? - where?
kēkē - armpit
kekeno - seal
kekokeko - cross-eyed
kēmihi - chemist
kemokemo - wink; blink
kēmu - game
kēna wai - watering can
kēne - a can
kenepuru - silt
keo - peak
kerei - grey
kerēme - claim
kerepe - grape
kerepeti - pottery
kerepō - blind
kererū - native pigeon
keri - dig
keria - (pass) be dug
kete - basket, kit
keti - gate
kēti kura - school gate
ki - to, at, →; | Has various uses and meanings
kī - to be full
ki a ia - in his opinion
ki te - if, in order to
kīa - (pass) be said; be filled
Kia ita! - Be committed!
Kia kaha! - Be strong!
Kia māhaki! - Be pleasant!
Kia māia! - Be brave!
Kia manawanui! - Be patient, committed, steadfast!
Kia mataara! - Be alert!
Kia mauritau! - Be settled!
Kia ngākau titikaha! - Be confident!
Kia ngākaunui! - Be strong hearted!
Kia ngāwari! - Be easy (lighten up)!
Kia niwha! - Be resolute!
kia ora - hello; thank you; be well
Kia pai! - Be nice!
Kia piki te ora! - Be better!
Kia pono! - Be truthful!
Kia tapatahi! - Be fair, principled!
Kia tau! - Be relaxed!
Kia tika! - Be correct!
Kia tū pakari! - Be robust!
Kia ū! - Be resolute, unyielding!
kīanga - phrase
kiekie - a climbing plant used in weaving
kīhai - Negative word
kihi - kiss (v); key (n)
kihikihi - cicada
kīhini - kitchen
kiia - crowded, full up
kiki - kick
kikia - kicked (pass. of kiki)
kikikiki - to stutter
kikimo - eyes tightly closed
kiko - flesh; body
kikokiko - of flesh and blood
kikorangi - blue sky; dark blue
kimi - to look for, seek
kimihia - sought; look for! (kimi + passive suffix -hia)
kimo - to wink
kina - sea urchin
kīnaki - relish (to accompany food); song following a speech
kīngi - king
kini - pinch
kino - bad
kino ake - worse
kiore - rat
kīrehu - idiom, a kīwaha you don't understand
kiri - skin
kiri kā - fever
kiri kau - naked
kiriāhua - selfie
kiriata - movie, film
Kirihimete - Christmas
kirihou - plastic
kirikau - leather
kirikiri - sand
Kirikiriroa - Hamilton
kirikiti - cricket (sport)
kirimana - a contract
kirimate - chief mourners
kirīmi - cream
kiripaepae - receptionist
kiritaki - customer
kiritapu - single (unmarried)
kiritata - neighbour
kiritea - fair-skinned
kiritona - pimple; mole; wart
kiriwara - drug addict
kiriweti - unpopular
kirokarāmu - kilogram
kiromita - kilometre
kita - fast; tightly
kite - to see
kitea - seen (kite + passive suffix -a)
kitenga - observation, seeing (kite + nominal suffix -nga)
kiwa - wink
kīwaha - colloquial saying, idiom
kiwi - native bird of Aotearoa
kiwikiwi - grey
ko - is, are (Various uses; not usually translatable with an English word), [equals], [topic marker]
kō atu - the further side
kō mai - the near side
ko wai - who is?
ko wai? - who?
koa - happy
koakoa - stupid
kōanga - spring (the season of)
koara - koala
kōaro - upside down
koata - quarter
kōauau - flute played with nose or mouth
koe - you, one person
koha - gift
kōhanga - nest, preschool, nursery
kōhanga reo - Māori language preschool
kōhatu - stone
kōhau - regret
kohe - talk nonsense
kohete - scold, tell off
kohetengia - scolded (kohete + -ngia; pass)
kohetetia - scolded (pass. of kohete)
kohi - to collect, gather together
kohia - (pass) be collected; be gathered
kohikohi - to collect, gather together
kohikohia - collect! collected (pass. of kohikohi)
kohikohinga - collection
kōhimuhimu - whisper
kōhine - girl
kohinga - collection
kōhinu - petrol
Kohitātea - January
kōhoi - thin
kōhoimako - bellbird
kōhonihoni - nibble
kohu - mist; concave; hollow
kōhua - to boil; cooking pot
kohukohu - hollow
kohuku - unfinished
kōhumuhumu - whisper; murmur; short hair
kōhungahunga - toddlers, babies
kōhurihuri - sapling
kōhuru - to murder
kōhurutia - to be murdered
koi - sharp
koia - it is, so
koia kei a koe - good on you!
koia koia - well! you don't say! really! indeed!
koia te hāngaitanga - right on!
koinā - that is, those are; like that
koinei - this is
koirā - that is, those are; like that
kōiri - to plant [e.g. potatoes]
kōiti - little finger; little toe
kōiwi - bone
kōkā - mother, aunt
koki - angle; corner
kōkiri - to charge, rush at, to thrust forward, attack
kōkō - cut in tattooing
kokoiti - teaspoon
kokonga - corner
kokopi - closed; shut
kokotaha - tablespoon
kōkōwai - red ochre
kōmā - pale
kōmeke - comic
komekome - chew; grumble
kōmihana - commission
komiti - committee
komo - insert, put in
kōmore - bracelet
komotia - inserted; insert! (pass. of komo)
kōmukumuku - to scrub
komuri - backwards
konā - there, by listener
konei - here, by speaker
koneke - rollerblades; skating; sledge; to slide along
kongakonga - small piece, fragment
konganuku - metal
kongene - withered; wrinkled
kōngenge - exhausted
kōngutu - mouth of river
konihi - stealthy
konohete - concert
kōnohi - grieve; yearn
kōnui - thumb; big toe
kopa - disappear; crippled; sandal; wallet; schoolbag
kōpae - disc
kōpaepae pūoru - compact disc (CD)
kōpaki - to envelope, fold, wrap, folder
kōpani - to shut
kōpapa - surfboard
kōpara - bellbird
kopareti - skates
kōpatapata - be spotted, flecked
kope - nappy
kōpeke - cold
kōpeketia - tucked in; tuck in! (pass. of kōpeke)
kōpere - a dart; a sling; rainbow
kōpiko - meander
kōpikopiko - wandering; winding
kōporo - van
kōpū - belly, womb
kōpua - deep (water)
kōpuku - to swell, puff up
kōpure - blotchy, spotted; ladybird
kora - fragment; spark
koraha - open country; desert; mud-flats
kōrakorako - fairies
kōrangaranga - ache
kōrapa - cage
kōrapu - flash; shine
korare - leaves of edible vegetables
kōrari - flax
kore - zero, nothing
kore e - not (future)
kore mahi - unemployed
kōrea - wheelchair
korekau - nothing, none, absolutely no!
korenga - non-existence, absence
korenga mahi - strike [work]
kōrengarenga - crushed; overflowing
kōrere - tap; diarrhoea
kōrero - to talk, speak
kōrero pakitara - fictional stories
kōrero parau - lies, untruths
kōrero pūrākau - folk-tales, stories, legends
kōrero teka - to tell lies
kōrerorero - to discuss (v); discussion (n)
kōrerotia - spoken (kōrero + passive suffix -tia)
koretake - useless
kōreti - kayak
kori - to move, wriggle, play
kōriha - gorilla
korihi - to sing [birds]; song [of birds]
korikori - move; wriggle
korikori tinana - exercise
korimako - bellbird
koro - term of address for an elderly man, grandfather (E koro)
koroahu - steam
koroheke - old man
korokoro - loose; throat; palate
koropungapunga - porous; decayed; pumice
koropupū - bubble up; to boil
kororā - little blue penguin
kōrori - stir
korōria - glory
koroua - elderly man, grandfather
korowai - cloak
korōwha - golf
korowhio - whistle
koru - coiled; shape of fern shoot
kōrua - you, two people
kōrua ko - you and...
kōruarua - hole; pit
korukoru - wrinkle
kota - cockle-shell; sawdust
kotahi - one
Kotahi mano iwa rau - 1900
Kotahi mano iwa rau iwa tekau - 1990
Kotahi mano iwa rau iwa tekau mā iwa - 1999
Kotahi mano iwa rau iwa tekau mā ono - 1996
Kotahi mano iwa rau iwa tekau mā rima - 1995
Kotahi mano iwa rau iwa tekau mā rua - 1992
Kotahi mano iwa rau iwa tekau mā tahi - 1991
Kotahi mano iwa rau iwa tekau mā toru - 1993
Kotahi mano iwa rau iwa tekau mā waru - 1998
Kotahi mano iwa rau iwa tekau mā whā - 1994
Kotahi mano iwa rau iwa tekau mā whitu - 1997
Kotahi mano iwa rau mā iwa - 1909
Kotahi mano iwa rau mā ono - 1906
Kotahi mano iwa rau mā rima - 1905
Kotahi mano iwa rau mā rua - 1902
Kotahi mano iwa rau mā tahi - 1901
Kotahi mano iwa rau mā toru - 1903
Kotahi mano iwa rau mā waru - 1908
Kotahi mano iwa rau mā whā - 1904
Kotahi mano iwa rau mā whitu - 1907
Kotahi mano iwa rau ono tekau - 1960
Kotahi mano iwa rau ono tekau mā iwa - 1969
Kotahi mano iwa rau ono tekau mā ono - 1966
Kotahi mano iwa rau ono tekau mā rima - 1965
Kotahi mano iwa rau ono tekau mā rua - 1962
Kotahi mano iwa rau ono tekau mā tahi - 1961
Kotahi mano iwa rau ono tekau mā toru - 1963
Kotahi mano iwa rau ono tekau mā waru - 1968
Kotahi mano iwa rau ono tekau mā whā - 1964
Kotahi mano iwa rau ono tekau mā whitu - 1967
Kotahi mano iwa rau rima tekau - 1950
Kotahi mano iwa rau rima tekau mā iwa - 1959
Kotahi mano iwa rau rima tekau mā ono - 1956
Kotahi mano iwa rau rima tekau mā rima - 1955
Kotahi mano iwa rau rima tekau mā rua - 1952
Kotahi mano iwa rau rima tekau mā tahi - 1951
Kotahi mano iwa rau rima tekau mā toru - 1953
Kotahi mano iwa rau rima tekau mā waru - 1958
Kotahi mano iwa rau rima tekau mā whā - 1954
Kotahi mano iwa rau rima tekau mā whitu - 1957
Kotahi mano iwa rau rua tekau - 1920
Kotahi mano iwa rau rua tekau mā iwa - 1929
Kotahi mano iwa rau rua tekau mā ono - 1926
Kotahi mano iwa rau rua tekau mā rima - 1925
Kotahi mano iwa rau rua tekau mā rua - 1922
Kotahi mano iwa rau rua tekau mā tahi - 1921
Kotahi mano iwa rau rua tekau mā toru - 1923
Kotahi mano iwa rau rua tekau mā waru - 1928
Kotahi mano iwa rau rua tekau mā whā - 1924
Kotahi mano iwa rau rua tekau mā whitu - 1927
Kotahi mano iwa rau tekau - 1910
Kotahi mano iwa rau tekau mā iwa - 1919
Kotahi mano iwa rau tekau mā ono - 1916
Kotahi mano iwa rau tekau mā rima - 1915
Kotahi mano iwa rau tekau mā rua - 1912
Kotahi mano iwa rau tekau mā tahi - 1911
Kotahi mano iwa rau tekau mā toru - 1913
Kotahi mano iwa rau tekau mā waru - 1918
Kotahi mano iwa rau tekau mā whā - 1914
Kotahi mano iwa rau tekau mā whitu - 1917
Kotahi mano iwa rau toru tekau - 1930
Kotahi mano iwa rau toru tekau mā iwa - 1939
Kotahi mano iwa rau toru tekau mā ono - 1936
Kotahi mano iwa rau toru tekau mā rima - 1935
Kotahi mano iwa rau toru tekau mā rua - 1932
Kotahi mano iwa rau toru tekau mā tahi - 1931
Kotahi mano iwa rau toru tekau mā toru - 1933
Kotahi mano iwa rau toru tekau mā waru - 1938
Kotahi mano iwa rau toru tekau mā whā - 1934
Kotahi mano iwa rau toru tekau mā whitu - 1937
Kotahi mano iwa rau waru tekau - 1980
Kotahi mano iwa rau waru tekau mā iwa - 1989
Kotahi mano iwa rau waru tekau mā ono - 1986
Kotahi mano iwa rau waru tekau mā rima - 1985
Kotahi mano iwa rau waru tekau mā rua - 1982
Kotahi mano iwa rau waru tekau mā tahi - 1981
Kotahi mano iwa rau waru tekau mā toru - 1983
Kotahi mano iwa rau waru tekau mā waru - 1988
Kotahi mano iwa rau waru tekau mā whā - 1984
Kotahi mano iwa rau waru tekau mā whitu - 1987
Kotahi mano iwa rau whā tekau - 1940
Kotahi mano iwa rau whā tekau mā iwa - 1949
Kotahi mano iwa rau whā tekau mā ono - 1946
Kotahi mano iwa rau whā tekau mā rima - 1945
Kotahi mano iwa rau whā tekau mā rua - 1942
Kotahi mano iwa rau whā tekau mā tahi - 1941
Kotahi mano iwa rau whā tekau mā toru - 1943
Kotahi mano iwa rau whā tekau mā waru - 1948
Kotahi mano iwa rau whā tekau mā whā - 1944
Kotahi mano iwa rau whā tekau mā whitu - 1947
Kotahi mano iwa rau whitu tekau - 1970
Kotahi mano iwa rau whitu tekau mā iwa - 1979
Kotahi mano iwa rau whitu tekau mā ono - 1976
Kotahi mano iwa rau whitu tekau mā rima - 1975
Kotahi mano iwa rau whitu tekau mā rua - 1972
Kotahi mano iwa rau whitu tekau mā tahi - 1971
Kotahi mano iwa rau whitu tekau mā toru - 1973
Kotahi mano iwa rau whitu tekau mā waru - 1978
Kotahi mano iwa rau whitu tekau mā whā - 1974
Kotahi mano iwa rau whitu tekau mā whitu - 1977
Kotahi mano waru rau - 1800
Kotahi mano waru rau iwa tekau - 1890
Kotahi mano waru rau iwa tekau mā iwa - 1899
Kotahi mano waru rau iwa tekau mā ono - 1896
Kotahi mano waru rau iwa tekau mā rima - 1895
Kotahi mano waru rau iwa tekau mā rua - 1892
Kotahi mano waru rau iwa tekau mā tahi - 1891
Kotahi mano waru rau iwa tekau mā toru - 1893
Kotahi mano waru rau iwa tekau mā waru - 1898
Kotahi mano waru rau iwa tekau mā whā - 1894
Kotahi mano waru rau iwa tekau mā whitu - 1897
Kotahi mano waru rau mā iwa - 1809
Kotahi mano waru rau mā ono - 1806
Kotahi mano waru rau mā rima - 1805
Kotahi mano waru rau mā rua - 1802
Kotahi mano waru rau mā tahi - 1801
Kotahi mano waru rau mā toru - 1803
Kotahi mano waru rau mā waru - 1808
Kotahi mano waru rau mā whā - 1804
Kotahi mano waru rau mā whitu - 1807
Kotahi mano waru rau ono tekau - 1860
Kotahi mano waru rau ono tekau mā iwa - 1869
Kotahi mano waru rau ono tekau mā ono - 1866
Kotahi mano waru rau ono tekau mā rima - 1865
Kotahi mano waru rau ono tekau mā rua - 1862
Kotahi mano waru rau ono tekau mā tahi - 1861
Kotahi mano waru rau ono tekau mā toru - 1863
Kotahi mano waru rau ono tekau mā waru - 1868
Kotahi mano waru rau ono tekau mā whā - 1864
Kotahi mano waru rau ono tekau mā whitu - 1867
Kotahi mano waru rau rima tekau - 1850
Kotahi mano waru rau rima tekau mā iwa - 1859
Kotahi mano waru rau rima tekau mā ono - 1856
Kotahi mano waru rau rima tekau mā rima - 1855
Kotahi mano waru rau rima tekau mā rua - 1852
Kotahi mano waru rau rima tekau mā tahi - 1851
Kotahi mano waru rau rima tekau mā toru - 1853
Kotahi mano waru rau rima tekau mā waru - 1858
Kotahi mano waru rau rima tekau mā whā - 1854
Kotahi mano waru rau rima tekau mā whitu - 1857
Kotahi mano waru rau rua tekau - 1820
Kotahi mano waru rau rua tekau mā iwa - 1829
Kotahi mano waru rau rua tekau mā ono - 1826
Kotahi mano waru rau rua tekau mā rima - 1825
Kotahi mano waru rau rua tekau mā rua - 1822
Kotahi mano waru rau rua tekau mā tahi - 1821
Kotahi mano waru rau rua tekau mā toru - 1823
Kotahi mano waru rau rua tekau mā waru - 1828
Kotahi mano waru rau rua tekau mā whā - 1824
Kotahi mano waru rau rua tekau mā whitu - 1827
Kotahi mano waru rau tekau - 1810
Kotahi mano waru rau tekau mā iwa - 1819
Kotahi mano waru rau tekau mā ono - 1816
Kotahi mano waru rau tekau mā rima - 1815
Kotahi mano waru rau tekau mā rua - 1812
Kotahi mano waru rau tekau mā tahi - 1811
Kotahi mano waru rau tekau mā toru - 1813
Kotahi mano waru rau tekau mā waru - 1818
Kotahi mano waru rau tekau mā whā - 1814
Kotahi mano waru rau tekau mā whitu - 1817
Kotahi mano waru rau toru tekau - 1830
Kotahi mano waru rau toru tekau mā iwa - 1839
Kotahi mano waru rau toru tekau mā ono - 1836
Kotahi mano waru rau toru tekau mā rima - 1835
Kotahi mano waru rau toru tekau mā rua - 1832
Kotahi mano waru rau toru tekau mā tahi - 1831
Kotahi mano waru rau toru tekau mā toru - 1833
Kotahi mano waru rau toru tekau mā waru - 1838
Kotahi mano waru rau toru tekau mā whā - 1834
Kotahi mano waru rau toru tekau mā whitu - 1837
Kotahi mano waru rau waru tekau - 1880
Kotahi mano waru rau waru tekau mā iwa - 1889
Kotahi mano waru rau waru tekau mā ono - 1886
Kotahi mano waru rau waru tekau mā rima - 1885
Kotahi mano waru rau waru tekau mā rua - 1882
Kotahi mano waru rau waru tekau mā tahi - 1881
Kotahi mano waru rau waru tekau mā toru - 1883
Kotahi mano waru rau waru tekau mā waru - 1888
Kotahi mano waru rau waru tekau mā whā - 1884
Kotahi mano waru rau waru tekau mā whitu - 1887
Kotahi mano waru rau whā tekau - 1840
Kotahi mano waru rau whā tekau mā iwa - 1849
Kotahi mano waru rau whā tekau mā ono - 1846
Kotahi mano waru rau whā tekau mā rima - 1845
Kotahi mano waru rau whā tekau mā rua - 1842
Kotahi mano waru rau whā tekau mā tahi - 1841
Kotahi mano waru rau whā tekau mā toru - 1843
Kotahi mano waru rau whā tekau mā waru - 1848
Kotahi mano waru rau whā tekau mā whā - 1844
Kotahi mano waru rau whā tekau mā whitu - 1847
Kotahi mano waru rau whitu tekau - 1870
Kotahi mano waru rau whitu tekau mā iwa - 1879
Kotahi mano waru rau whitu tekau mā ono - 1876
Kotahi mano waru rau whitu tekau mā rima - 1875
Kotahi mano waru rau whitu tekau mā rua - 1872
Kotahi mano waru rau whitu tekau mā tahi - 1871
Kotahi mano waru rau whitu tekau mā toru - 1873
Kotahi mano waru rau whitu tekau mā waru - 1878
Kotahi mano waru rau whitu tekau mā whā - 1874
Kotahi mano waru rau whitu tekau mā whitu - 1877
kotahitanga - unity
kotakota rīwai - potato chips
kōtare - kingfisher
kotere - swelling
kōti - court
kotikara - finger; fingernail; toe; toenail
kotikoti - cut to pieces; divide lands; striped
kotinga - division; boundary line
kōtingotingo - speckled
Kōtirana - Scotland
Kotirangi - Scotland
kōtiri - meteor
kōtiritiri - meteor
kōtiro - girl
kotiti - be displaced; move aside
kōtītiti - wander about
kotiuru - headache
kōtonga - misery, distress, depression
kōtui - zip
kōtuitui - network
kōtuku - white heron
kotutu - boil up (meat and veges)
kounga - quality
koura - gold
kōuraura - be golden brown, bronze
kourua - you two [kōrua]
koutou - you, three or more people
kōwae - paragraph
kōwaha - yawn
kowata - transparent
kōwhai - yellow; a native tree
kōwhaiwhai - patterns
kōwhaki - tear off
kōwhakiwhaki - flash frequently
kōwhao - hole
kōwhatu - stone
kowhera - flash; open; yawn
kōwhiri - choose
kōwhiria - to be selected
kōwhiringa - selection, choosing, menu
kōwhiuwhiu - fan
kua - then; have; has; had | Verbal particle; indicating completed action or movement into a state
kua kore - isn't
kuahā - door
kūao - young of animals
kūare - ignorant
kuau - beard
kuha - gasp; ragged
kuhu - to enter, to go or come in
kuhua - (pass) be entered; be put on (clothes)
kuhukuhu - pig
kuhuna - entered; enter! go in! (pass. of kuhu)
kui - Term of address for an elderly woman (eg 'E kui'.)
kuia - elderly woman, grandmother
kuihi - goose
kuini - queen
Kūkara - Google
kuki - cook
kuku - draw together; nip; nightmare; mussel
kukume - to pull, to drag
kukune - grow; plump
kumanu - foster, look after
kūmara - kūmara, sweet potato
kume - drag; pull
kume-ā-papa - gravity (force of)
kūmea - pulled, dragged, stretched out
kūmera - sweet potato
kumete - wooden bowl or trough
kumikumi - beard
kumu - buttocks, bottom
kūmua - prefix
kūmuri - suffix
kūnāwiri - to tremble
kūngia - (pass) be drawn together; be nipped
kuoro - to grate
kūpangopango - dark in colour
kūpapa - side with the government; traitor
kupenga - net
kupu - word
kupu arataki - prefix
kupu hono/tūhono - joiner; particle/preposition
kupu huna - password
kupu matua - headline
kupu whakarite - metaphor, simile, figurative language
kupuhoto - conjunction
kuputuhi - text message
kura - school; treasured item
kura kaupapa Māori - Māori language school
kura kōhungahunga - kindergarten
kura rata - medical school
kura tuarua - high school
kūrae - headland
kuraina - taught (pass. of kura)
kūraruraru - perplexed
kuratea - pink
kurehe - fold; wrinkle
kurī - dog
kurī ārahi - guide dog
kurī tautiaki - guard dog
kuru - strike with the fist; weary
kurupae - beam
kūtai - mussel
kutarere - scooter
kuti - draw together; nip; close hand or mouth; nightmare
kūtia - (pass) be drawn together; be closed
kutikuti - scissors
kutu - nits
kutukutu ahi - nonsense
kūwaha - door; entrance; mouth
kūware - to be ignorant, unaware
kūwhewhewhewhe - wrinkled
mā - clean, white
mā hea - how?
mā kōrua - it will be you two
mā raro - on foot
mā runga - to travel by, by the means of
mā te wā - sometime, whenever
mā tēnā - each of you
mā wai - who is the one who will?
Maehe - March
māeke - cold
māeneene - smooth; soft
maero - mile
maha - many
mahaki - sick; sick person
mahana - to be warm, warm
māhanga - twin(s)
mahara - thought, memory
māharahara - worry (n); anxious (adj)
māhau - for you
(variant of māu)
māhē - sinker
maheni - to be smooth, sleek; magazine
mahere - map, plan
mahetau - potato
mahi - to do, work, make
mahi ā whare - housework
mahi kāinga - home work
mahia - worked (mahi + passive suffix -a)
mahihore - peeled off
māhina - moon
mahinga kai - cultivation
mahira - to be inquisitive, curious, nosy
māhita - teacher
maho - laid back
mahu - healed
mahue - to be left behind (trans)
mahuetia - (pass) be passed by; be left behind; be deserted
māhuna - head
māhunga - head
Mahuru - September
mai - towards the speaker in space or in orientation; to here
mai i te - passed
mai rā anō - from long ago
māia - capable, brave, bold
maihao - finger; toe
maihi - bargeboards of meeting house
maika - banana (also panana)
maiku - banana
maikuku - claw; fingernail, toenail
maimai aroha - token of affection
maimoa - cherish, take care of
maimoatia - cherished, taken care of; cherish! take care of! (pass. of maimoa)
maioha - greet affectionately; welcome
māipi - wooden weapon
mairō - milo
māka - to mark
makaia - (pass) be thrown
makariri - cold
makau - favourite; lover; husband; wife
makawe - hair of the head (human, used in plural: ngā makawe)
mākekehu - fair-headed
makere - to get down from
mākihakiha - insipid
makimaki - monkey
makinui - gorilla
Makitānara - MacDonalds
mako - shark
mākona - satisfied, full
mākū - to be saturated, wet, damp
makuku - lazy; pleasant tasting
mākurakura - pink
mākutu - bewitch; magic; spell
mākūware - careless
māmā - mother (n); easy, simple (adj)
mamae - hurt, sore, pain
mamaha - steam
mamaku - black tree-fern
mamao - distant
mamaoa - steam
māminga - pretend
māna - for him, her, by him, her
mana motuhake - self-government; personal freedom
mana whenua - people of the place
manaaki - to look after, to show hospitality towards
manaakitanga - hospitality, kindness, generosity
manaakitia - (pass) be looked after; look after
manahau - to be cheerful, triumphant, stoked
manaia - abstract carved figure
manako - to like
manatu - homesick
mānatunatu - concerns
manawa - heart
manawa hē - heart attack
mānawanawa - be patient; patience
manawanui - to be patient, steadfast, determined, resilient
manawapā - grudging; reluctant
manawareka - satisfied
Māne - Monday
manene - stranger
manga - branch; stream
māngai - mouth; representative
māngari - lucky, fortunate
māngaro - tasty, floury
mangeo - itch
māngeongeo - itchy
māngere - lazy
mangō - shark
mangu - black
mangungu - crushed; uncooked
mania - slippery; smooth; to slide
maniheko - nasty
maninirau - circus
manioro - to make a noise, create a disturbance
mano - thousand
manomano - innumerable, hordes
mānu - float; be launched; overflow; be flooded
manu aute - kite
manuhiri - guest
mānuka - tea-tree
mānukanuka - worry; doubt; anxiety; anxious
mao - fine weather, clearing weather
maoa - cooked; ripe
māoka - cooked, ripe, mature
maomao - to stop raining
maonga - cooked, ripe
māori - clear; normal, ordinary
māoriori - to be free from anxiety, contented, at ease
Māoritanga - Māori culture
maota - fresh green
māpere - marble
mapi - map
mapu - flow freely; sigh; sob
māra - garden
māra wāina - vineyard
marae - traditional Māori gathering place
marae ātea - open space in front of meeting house
marakihau - sea monster
mārama - clear, understand
maramara - crumbs, small pieces
maramara rīwai - chips
maramataka - calendar
māramatanga - enlightenment, understanding
maranga - to arise; to get up
marangai - heavy rain, storm
marara - scattered; separated; umbrella
mārau - fork
mare - to cough
mareikura - esteemed friend, respected friend
maremare - to cough
mārena - to marry; wedding
mārenatanga - marriage
mārenatia - (pass) to be married
marere - to drop
mārie - fortunate; peaceful
mārika - indeed, quite, certainly; āe mārika
māringanui - to be fortunate
maringi - to spill (trans)
marino - calm
māripi - knife
mārire - quietly; thoroughly; peaceful
maro - kilt-like garment
maroke - dry
maru - power; shelter
mārua - hollow; pit; valley; vacuum
marumaru - shaded
mata - face, eye (n); raw (adj)
mata kohore - bleary-eyed
mataaho waka - windscreen
mataara - to be alert, vigilant (s), to keep awake, observe (v)
mātaitai - seafood
matakahi - wedge
matakana - wary
matakerepō - blind
mātaki - to watch
mātaki-kiriata - movie-watching
mātakina - watch
mātakitaki - watch
mātakitakina - to be watched
mātakitia - inspected (pass. of mātaki)
matakoma - swollen
mataku - scared, afraid
mātāmua - eldest; first; main
matangi - wind, breeze
mātao - cold
mātaotao - cool
matapaia - pottery
matapihi - window
matapihitia - window (pass?)
matapiko - mean, stingy
matapōrehu - sadness
mātāpuputu - the elderly
mātara - obsidian
Matariki - Pleiades
matarua - two-edged, double-edged
matatau - to be competent, skilled, proficient, expert
mātau - to comprehend (v), to be competent (s)
mātauranga - education, knowledge, understanding
matawā - clock; live broadcast
matawaia - filled with tears
mātāwaka - all tribes
matawhāiti - cautious
mate - to be sick, ill, dead
mate ā moa - extinct
mate huka - diabetes
mate manawa - heart attack; heart disease
mate moe - sleepy
mate pukupuku - cancer
mate wai - very thirsty
mateinu - to be very thirsty
matekai - hungry, starving
mātenga - head
mātengatenga - causing pain
matewai - thirst; thirsty
māti - match (to light a fire)
matihao - finger; toe
matihe - sneeze
matihere - deep affection, warm regard
matikara - finger; toe
matikuku - claw; fingernail; toenail; hoof
matimati - finger, toe
matira - fishing rod
matomato - to be green (of foliage), grow vigorously, flourish
mātotoru - thick
mātotorutanga o te waka - (heavy) traffic
mātou - we, us (three or more people, excluding the person/ people addressed)
matū - fat, chemical
mātua - parents, fathers (plural form of matua)
matua kēkē - uncle
matua tāne - father; uncle
matua wahine - mother; aunt
matua whāngai - foster-parent
mātūtū - to recover
māu - for you, by you; ā category possession
mau - to wear clothes
mau herehere - hostage; prisoner
mau kakī - necklace
māua - we, us (two people, excluding addressee)
māua ko - two people [me and...]
mauāhara - hate, loathe
māui - on the left hand, left side
māuiui - sick
maumahara - to remember, remember
maumau - waste (of time, effort etc)
maunga - mountain
Maunga-whau - Mount Eden
maungārongo - peace
maunu - come out; be drawn
maunutanga - migration
mauri - life spirit
mauri moe - unconscious
mauri ora - sneeze of life
mauria - to be carried (mau + passive suffix -ria)
māuruuru - to lessen the effects of sadness
mautohe - protest
māwhe - faded
māwhero - pink
mawhiti - jump; skip
māwhitiwhiti - grasshopper
me - and, should, with (various meanings, uses, eg with, like, should)
mea - a thing (n); to say (v)
mea ake - suddenly; it won't be long at all
mea kau ake - immediately; very soon
meāke - soon
meatia - (pass) be done, be said, be thought
mehemea - if (presuming not; cf. ki te, if, expressing simple uncertainty)
Mei - May
meke - fist; to punch
mekemeke - boxing; to punch repeatedly
mekepaoro - volleyball
mema - member, members
Mema Pāremata - MP, Member of Parliament
memeha - weak
mēna - if
mene - assemble
menemene - to smile
meneti - minute
mēra - mail
mere - bush, shrub
merekara - miracle
merengi - melon
mētara - metal
mīere - honey
mīharo - to wonder at; amazing
mihi - to greet; thank; acknowledge
mihimihi - greetings and introductions
mihinare - missionary; Anglican
mīhini - machine
mīhini hoko - vending machine
mīhini keri - digger
mimi - urine; urinate
mimia - pissed (pass. of mimi)
mimiti - dried up; swallowed up
minamina - desire, wish for mine be gathered together
minenga - audience
mingomingo kata - to smile
minita - minister
miniti - minute [time]
mira - mill
miraka - milk
miraka tepe - yoghurt
miri - rub; stroke; soothe; wipe
mirihau - windsurfing
mirimiri - massage
mirimiria - appeased, mollified; soothed, stroked
mirimita - millimetre
miriona - million
mirionea - millionaire
miririta - millilitre
miro - thread, a type of pine tree
mirumiru - bubbles
mita - miter; dialect
mītara - measles
mīti - meat
mīti hipi - mutton
mīti kau - beef
mitimiti - to lick
mō - for, unrealised, ō category possession, about
mō taku hē - sorry, my bad
moa - large extinct bird
moana - sea
moata - early; early morning
moe - sleep; to marry
moea - married (pass. of moe)
moemoeā - to dream (v), dream (n)
moenga - bed
moepapa - nightmare
moeroa - sleepyhead; to sleep in
mōhio - to know
mōhiotanga - knowledge
(mōhio + nominal suffix -tanga)
mōhiotia - known (mōhio + passive suffix -tia)
mōhiti - glasses
mōhiti ārai hihirā - sunglases
moho - stupid
mohoa - to the present time
mōhū - selfish
moka - end, margin, piece
mōkai - pet
mokamokai - dried human head
mōkarakara - to be savoury, delicious
moke - solitary; solitary person
mokemoke - lonely
mōkī - tie in a bundle; raft made of flax stalks; package
moko - lizard
moko ngārara - crocodile
mokomoko - lizard
mokopuna - grandchild
mokotuauri - dinosaur
mokoweri - dinosaur
mōku - for me, unrealised, o category possession
momi - suck
momo - type, kind
momoe - keeping the eyes shut
mōmona - fat
momori - bare; smooth
mōna - for him, her, unrealised, o category possession
monamona - knuckle; joint
mongamonga - crushed
moni - money
moni whiwhi - income
monoa - to desire, admire, esteem, have a high regard for
more - bare; plain, not decorated; toothless
morearea - dangerous
mōrehu - survivor
moremore - bald
mōrena - good morning
morihana - goldfish
mōrunga - lifted up
mōteatea - lament; traditional song
mōtēra - motel
moto - strike with fist
motokā - car, motorcar
motokia - (pass) be struck with fist
motū - steak
motuhake - special
motuhaketia - separated; separate! (pass. of motuhake)
motuhia - (pass) be cut
motuhuka - iceberg
motukā - car
motumotu - be divided into isolated portions, broken into small pieces
motunga - quota
motupaika - motorbike
moturere - broken or cut off
mōu - for you
mōua - back of neck
moumou - waste (n): to be wasteful (v)
mōunu - bait
moutere - island
mōwhiti - glasses
mōwhiti kaukau - goggles
mōwhiti rā - sunglasses
mua - front, before
mua atu - earlier
mua mai - recently
muanga - eldest child
muheni - insult
mui - to swarm
muka - flax fibre
mukākā - irritate, annoy
muku - wipe, rub; rubber (stationery)
mukua - rubbed (pass of muku)
mukumuku - wipe
muna - darling; secret, mystery; hide
mura - blaze, flame
muramura - flash; bright-coloured
mūrau - fame, a notable example
mūrere - to be clever, cunning, crafty
muri - behind, after
muri mai - shortly
muringa - afterwards; youngest child
muritai - sea breeze
muriwai - backwater; lagoon
muru - forgive; plunder; rub; wipe
murua - (pass) be forgiven
mutu - be ended, finished (but not necessarily completed)
mutunga - end (mutu + noun ending -nga)
mutunga rawa - maximum
mutunga wiki - weekend
nā - Various meanings, eg by, belonging to (ā category), by way of
nā konā - because of that
nā konei - because of this
nā reira - therefore
nā te mea - because
naenae - mosquito
naeroa - mosquito
Nāhinara - National party
nāianei - now
naihi - knife
naka - near you
nākahi - snake
nakonako - to adorn, ornament
nāku - mine, realised possession,
it was done by me (ā category)
nama - number
namata - ancient times
namu - sandfly
namunamuā - flavoured; flavour! (pass. of namunamuā)
namuneiti - lemonade
nana - eyebrow
nanā! - look!
nanahi - yesterday
nanaiore - to strive for, endeavour
nanakia - rascal
clever, cunning
nanekoti - goat
nanenane - goat
nao - feel; to handle
napō - last night
nati - nut; pinch
natinati - pinched; stifled
natu - scratch
nau - come, go (as in: Nau mai!)
nau mai! - welcome!
nāwai - presently, in due course, after a while
nāwai rā - after a time, in due course, for some time
nawe - scar
nē - tag question, translated variously depending on the English structure; eh?
nē? - really?; isn't it?; shall I/we?
neha - doze
nehenehe - forest
neherā - ancient times
nehu - bury
nehua - (pass) be buried
nei - here, by speaker
neke - to move
nekeneke - to move gradually
nenekara - nonsense
nenewha - shut the eyes
nēra - nail
newanewa - soft toys
ngā - the, plural
ngā kare-ā-roto - emotions
ngā tikanga-ā-iwi - anthropology
ngā toi - arts
ngaengae - heel
ngāhau - to be enjoyable, entertaining, interesting.
ngahere - forest, bush
ngāherehere - bush
ngāhoahoa - headache
ngahoro - to fall; and more
ngahuru - autumn
ngāi - prefix meaning tribe or clan (e.g., Ngāi Tahu)
ngākau - heart, as in seat of the affections and feelings
ngākaukore - disinclined
ngākaunui - eager, keen
ngākaurua - uncertain, in two minds
ngaki - avenge; to plant; to weed
ngakina - till soil, weed
ngakinga - a garden
ngako - fat (as on meat)
ngakuru - to drop off, drop out; to form into fruit
Ngāmotu - New Plymouth
ngana - to persist, to try hard, be persistent
nganga - stone of fruit; hail; shell; husk
ngangare - quarrel
ngaoki - crawl
ngaoko - move slightly
ngārara - reptile, monster
ngārara arikata - alligator invisible; extinct; forgotten; hidden;
ngare - blood relations; family; send; urge
ngari - annoyance
ngaro - to be lost, missing, gone, hidden (trans)
ngaru - wave
ngaruiti - microwave
ngata - snail (n); to be satisfied (v)
ngātahi - together
Ngāti - tribal name prefix (as in: Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Kahungunu)
Ngāti R`1awaho - foreigners
ngau - to bite
ngāueue - to shake
ngaungau - to chew, a snack
ngaupuku - stomach ache
ngāwari - kind, pleasant of personality; easy
ngāwhā - boiling spring
ngē - noise
ngehengehe - soft; weak
ngenge - tired
ngenge rererangi - jet lag
ngeri - chant with actions
ngeru - cat
ngira - needle
ngirangira - hand
ngoengoe - scream
ngohengohe - soft; pliable; easy
ngoi - energy; strength
ngoikore - weak; listless
ngoio - asthma
ngōki - to crawl, creep
ngongo - tube
ngongohā - snorkel
ngongore - blunt
ngongoro - exclaim; snore
ngore - flexible
ngota - fragment; particle; atom
ngotangota - smashed to powder
ngote - to suck the breast (v); small (adj)
ngote-puehu - vacuum cleaner
ngū - squid; silent, speechless
ngungu - turn aside
ngunguru - to growl, grumble, shake
nguru - nose-flute
ngutu - lip, lips
ngutu hore - wasteful
ngutu huia - talkative person
ngutu momoho - abusive; talkative
ngutu pārera - pistol
ngutu tere - untrustworthy
ngutuawa - river-mouth
niao - edge; rim; top plank of canoe
niho - tooth
niho tunga - toothache
nihoniho - to be antagonistic, quarrelsome
nihowera - generous with food
nikau - a palm tree
ninipa - clumbsy, unskilled
Niu Tīreni - New Zealand
niwha - brave; rage; barb
nō - from
no hea? - from where?
nō konā - therefore
nō konei - therefore
nō reira - so, therefore
nō tāwāhi - international
nō te mea - because
nō whea? - from where?
noa - free from tapu; only, just, merely
noa atu rā - ago [a specified time in the past]
Noema - November
nohinohi - small
noho - to live; sit
noho puni - camping
noho taratahi - self-isolation
nohoanga - home, sofa
nohoia - (pass) be sat upon, be inhabited
nohopuku - silent; to diet
nohotū! - sit up straight!
noke - worm
noko - stern of canoe
nōku - mine, realised possession, ō category
nōna - belongs to him or her (Å catergory), his, hers
nōnahea/āhea - when?
nōnahea? - when? (used of the past)
nōnāianei - now; today
nōnanahi - yesterday
nōnapō - last night
nōnawhea? - when? (used of the past)
nonohi - small (plural)
nonoke - judo
noti - contract; pinch
nōu - yours
Nōwei - Norway
nui - big, great, many
nui ake - bigger
nui rawa atu - largest
nui te utu - expensive
nuinga - majority (nui + nominal suffix -nga)
nuke - crooked
nuku - to move
nukunuku - remove
numia - passed by (pass of numi)
nunui - big (plural form)
nunumi - disappear
nūpepa - newspaper
ō - your, one person, neutral category possession, plural
ō kōrua - your (plural, two people)
ō koutou - your (plural, three or more people)
ō mātou - our (plural, theirs and mine)
ō māua - our (plural, his or hers and mine)
ō rātou - their (plural, three or more people)
ō rāua - their (plural, two people)
ō tātou - our (plural)
ō tāua - yours and mine (plural)
o te ao - international
oati - promise, guarantee, pledge
oha - dying speech; keepsake; greet
ōhākī - dying speech
ohaoha - abundant; generosity; generous
ōhiomanomano - to brainstorm
oho - to wake up
ohooho - panic; cherished; requiring care
ohorere - to start suddenly, be startled; surprised
ohotata - emergency
ohu - group of volunteers; workers
ohu rapa - search party
oi - shake, shudder
oinga - childhood, youth
oioi - shake gently
oka - chef's knife, dagger; prick; stab; yam
okaoka - stab
ōkawa - formal
oke - invalid; wriggle
okeoke - toss about
Oketopa - October
oki - oak tree
okioki - to pause; rest
oko - bowl
okooko - to nurse
ōku - mine, plural, ō category possession
oma - to run, escape
oma taumano - marathon
omakia - run (pass of oma)
omanga - refuge
omaoma - running
ōna - his, her, plural, ō category possession
onamata - of ancient times
one - beach, sand
oneone - earth, soil
onepū - sand, beach
oneuku - clay
ono - six
ono tekau - 60
opaina - thrown, passed (pass of opa)
ōpaki - informal
ope - group travelling together
opeopea - cared for; care for! (pass. of opeope)
opeopengia - cared for; care for! (pass. of opeope)
ora - alive, well, healthy, safe
oranga - health, life
(ora + nominal suffix -nga)
oreore - to shake, quiver
ori hīteki - ballet
oriori - lullaby
ōrite - to be the same as
oro - sharpen; grind
orotahi - note (music)
ota - uncooked; unripe
otaota - vegetation, herbs, grass, weeds
Ōtautahi - Christchurch
Ōtepoti - Dunedin
oti - to be completed
otinga - conclusion, end, completion
otirā - but, on the other hand
ōu - yours, one person, ō category possession, plural
pā - a fortified settlement (n); to touch (v)
pā hirahira - castle
pā tāwhanawhana - bouncy castle
pā tonu - as soon as
pā tūwatawata - fort
pae - ridge
pae maunga - mountain range
pae patopato - typewriter
pae tere - speed limit
paekura - lost property
paenga - shelf
Paenga-whāwhā - April
Paengawhāwhā - April
paepae - speakers
Paerau - meeting place of the dead
paeroa - range of hills; wind which blows along the shore
Paeroa-o-Whānui - the Milky Way
paerua - masters level
paetae - achieved
paetahi - bachelor level
Pāharakeke - Flaxmere
pāhau - beard
paheke - fail; slip; to slide
pāhekeheke - slippery; uncertain
pahemo - pass by; pass on
pahī - adventure
pahi iti - minibus
pāhihi - passenger
pahikara - bicycle
pāhiketepōro - basketball
pāhiri - parsley
pāhotanga - programme
pahū - drum (n); blow up, explode (v)
pāhukahuka - foam, froth; frothy
pahupahu - to bark (of a dog); to prattle on
pahure - escape; pass by; be carried out successfully
pai - good (adj); to like (v); good
pai ake - better
pai atu - better
paiaka - root of tree
paihēneti - percentage
paihikara - bike
paihikara maunga - mountain bike
pāina - to dry; warm oneself; sunbathe
painga - benefit, skill, good qualities
(pai + nominal suffix -nga)
paingia - (pass) be approved; be liked
paipa - pipe
Paipera Tapu - Holy Bible
paitini - poison
pāka - a park; a box
pakakau - xylophone
pakanga - to fight, battle, war, hostility
Pakanga Tuarua - World War Two
Pakanga Tuatahi - World War One
pakapaka - burnt, dry
pakari - mature, ripe
pākaru - to break forth, break into pieces
pākatio - freezer
pākau - kite; wing
pākaurua - stingray
pake - obstinate
Pākehā - New Zealander of European descent
pākehokeho - slippery
pakeke - hard, stiff (adj); to grow up (v); age, adult, elder (n)
paketai - driftwood; anything cast up by the sea
pākete - bucket
pākī - hamburger
pākia - (pass) be struck; be touched
pakiaka - root
pakihi - business
pakihiwi - shoulder
pakipaki - to applaud, to clap; applause
pakipūmeka - documentary
pakitara - wall
pakituri - hitchhiker
pākiwaha - to boast, brag (v), to be boastful (s)
pakiwaitara - story
pakiwaituhi - cartoon
pakō - blistered; make a loud sound
paku - dried; small
paku - small
pakupaku - very small
pāmahana - temperature
pāmamao - distant
pāmu - farm
panā - (pass) be driven away, be expelled
panaia - banished
panana - banana
panatahi - odd number
pane - head
pane kuini - postage stamp
paneke - goal (in sport); to score; to advance
panekeke - pancake
panekoti - skirt, dress
pangā - (pass) be thrown; be passed
pānga tuhituhi - stationery
pāngarau - maths
pango - black
pangore - toddler
pani - orphan (n); to be orphaned (v): to smear, spread out (v)
pani ngutu - lipstick
pania - to be spread; spread! (pass. of pani)
paniaku - toothpaste
panikakā - mustard
Pāniora - Spain
panoni - to change [v]; change [n]
pānui - to read; to publish, advertise; notice, advertisement
pānuitanga - announcement
pānuitia - read; advertised (pass of pānui)
panuku - sledge
pao - break; sing; a type of song; strike, pound
paoa - smoke (from a fire)
paoka - fork; pierce; stab
paokatia - stabbed; stab! (pass. of paoka)
paoro - ball
papā - burst, explode
papa angaanga - skull
papa kāinga - ancestral settlement
papa kararehe - zoo
papa pānui - noticeboard
papa tākaro - playground, sports field
papa tuhituhi - blackboard, whiteboard
pāpāho - broadcast
pāpāho maha - multimedia
papahokohoko - mall
papai - good (plural), very good
Papaioea - Palmerston North
pāpaka - crab
papaki - smack
pāpaku - shallow
papakupu - dictionary
papanga - layer
pāpango - dark in colour
pāpapa - husk, shell
pāpara kāuta - pub
paparahua - dining table
pāparakauta - pub
papareti - skateboard
pāpāringa - cheek
papāroa - scarce
papatahi - flat
papatākaro - playing field, playground
pāpātanga - rate, speed
papataunga - runway
papatuhituhi - whiteboard
papi - puppy
pāpura - purple
para - blood relation; pollen; sediment; waste material
pārae - a park; paddock
paraehe-niho - toothbrush
parahanga - litter (rubbish)
parahutihuti - to hurtle along at speed
parai - fry; frying pan
paraihe - award, prize; brush
paraihe niho - toothbrush
paraihetia - brushed; brush! (pass. of paraihe)
paraikete - blanket
Paraire - Friday
parakai - food scraps
parakatihi - to practise, rehearse
parakipere - blackberry
parakuihi - breakfast
paramanawa - refreshments, snacks, nibbles
paramu - plum
parani - daisy, brand
parāoa - bread, flour
parāoa parai - fried bread
parāoa puehu - flour
parāoa rimurapa - pasta
parāoa roa - weapon made of rib of whale
paraone - brown
parapara - filth; talents
pararau - slave
parareka - potato
paratina - brunch, morning tea
parau - false; lie
parauri - brown
pare - to ward off, to divert
pare tīkākā - sunscreen
parehe - pizza; flattened
pārekareka - fun; enjoyable, beautiful
parekura - disaster; battle
pāremata - parliament
paremo - drowned
parenga - riverbank
pārera - grey duck
parerori - cramp
paretai - river bank
pari - cliff
pārīrātangi - intermission
parirau - wing
paritū - steep
pārongo - hearing aid
parori - sprained; crooked
pāroro - cloudy; storm
paru - dirt, mud, dirty
pārunga - upstairs
paruparu - dirt, mud
pata - butter
pata kai - cereal
patahinu - margarine
patahua - muesli
pātai - question; to ask a question
pātaia - (pass) be asked; be questioned
pātaka - elevated storehouse; pantry
pātangatanga - starfish
patapata - drip; drop
patapatai - question frequently
pātara - bottle
pātara wai - waterbottle
pātari - amuse; entice; provoke
pātata - close (of distance)
pātene - button
pātere - chant
patero - fart
pāti - party
pātiki - flounder (fish)
pātiki rori - sole
patiko - hastily
patipati - flatter, sweet-talk
pātītī - grass
pātōtō - knock
pātū - wall
patu - to strike, hit; to kill
patu parāoa - short flat whalebone weapon
patua - hit/killed (patu + passive suffix -a)
pātuhi - text message, to text
patupaiarehe - fairy, elf, pixie
pau - to be consumed, used up completely, all gone (trans)
pau haere - progressively used up
pāua - abalone
pāuaua - to be strong, persevering
paukena - pumpkin
paunga rā whitu - weekend
paura - powder
pāwera - afraid
pāwhero - red-haired
pē - mashed
pea - pair; pear
pea hurumā - polar bear
peara - pearl
peha - boast; skin
pēhea - how?
pēhea? - how? in what way?
pēhi - press; oppress; repress
pēhia - (pass) be pressed; be oppressed; be repressed
peihana - basin
peita - paint
peka - branch
pēkana - bacon
pekapeka - bat
peke - to jump
pēke parapara - rubbish bag
pekerangi - ozone layer
pēnā - like that, near listener
penapena - to save up
pene - pen
pene pura - ballpoint pen
pene rākau - pencil
pēnei - like this, near speaker
pēniho - toothpaste
pepa - paper; pepper
pepa whēru - toilet paper
pepe - flutter; butterfly
pepeha - proclamation of origin
pepeke - frog
pēpepe - butterfly; moth
pēpi - baby
Pepuere - February
pērā - like that, yonder
pērā tonu - same old; to be unchanged
pere - bell
pere rua - yacht
perehana - present, gift
perehi - press; print
perehina - bristle
pereki - brick
pereti - plate
perhaps -
peruperu - eyebrows
peti - heap up
pewa - bow-shaped; eyebrow; raise the eyebrows
pēwhea - how? (variant of pēhea)
pēwhea? - how? in what way?
pī - bee; pea
pī rorohū - bumblebee
pia - beer
pia kano - crayon
pia ngaungau - chewing gum
piako - empty; hollow
piana - piano
pīata - bright; clear; shine; shiny
piau - axe; iron
pīauau - knife
piha - gills
pihareinga - cricket (insect)
pihi - waterproof
pihikete - biscuit
pihinga - young plant, seedling
pīhopa - bishop
pīkaokao - chicken
pīkau - backpack; carry on back; take responsibility for
pīkaunga - mountaineering
piki - to increase
piki toka - rock climbing
pikiniki - picnic
pikitanga - ascent of hill
pikitia - picture, film
piko - bend; bent; corner; curve; curved
pīkoko - to be hungry; hunger
pikopiko - winding about
pīmua - prefix
pīmuri - suffix
pīnati - peanut
pīnati pata - peanut butter
pine - close together; pin
pinepine - little
pīngao - seaside plant used in weaving; kodak yellow
pīnohi - tongs
pīnono - beg
pīoioi - to shake, wave, sway
pīpī - chick, baby
Pipiri - June
pīpīwharauroa - shining cuckoo
pīrangi - to want, desire
pīrangitia - (pass) be wanted, be desired
pirau - rotten
pire - bill; pill
piri - to stick to, to cling
pirihi - priest
pirihimana - police officer
pirikoko - mystery
pirimia - prime minister
piringa - shelter, hiding place
piriniha - prince; princess
piritahi - to be together, as one
piriti - bridge
piro - stinking, putrid
pirohia - score a goal! scored (pass)
Pita - Peter
pītakataka - gymnastics
pītiti - peach
pito - belly button, end, extremity
piu - skipping; throw; step; jump
piupiu - flax skirt (worn as part of traditional costume, eg in kapa haka)
pīwaiwaka - fantail
pō - night
pō mārie - good night
pō whakangahau - night-time party
poaka - pig
poaka kini - guinea pig
pōangaanga - skull
poari - board
pōhā - youngest child; food container; pastry
pōhara - poor
pōhatu - stone
pōhauhau - confused
pohe - blind
pōhēhē - to think mistakenly, be mistaken
pōhekaheka - mould
pohepohe - distracted, inattentive
pohewa - imagine
pōhiri - welcome; to wave
poho - chest
poi - poi, small, soft ball on string
Poihākena - Sydney
poihau - balloon
poikiri - soccer
poikōpiko - table tennis
poipoi - to nurture, encourage
poipoia - to nurture, encourage
poitarawhiti - netball
poka - hole (n); to make a hole in, to pierce (v)
poka noa - randomly
poka tata - short-cut
pōkai - flock, swarm; roll up, wind up, wrap around
pōkai tueke - pack bags
pōkaia - pierced; make a hole in! (pass of pōka)
pōkaikaha - confused, in doubt
pōkākā - squall, storm
pokake - presumptuous
pokanga - operation (surgical)
pōkarekare - to be agitated (of liquid)
poke - pollute
poke parāoa - to make bread
pōkēao - dark cloud
pokenga - pollution
pokepoke - to mix up with water, etc., knead, mold, shape, form
pokepokea - mixed, kneaded; mix! knead! (pass. of pokepoke)
pokerehū - unintentionally
pokerenoa - reckless
poki - to cover over, swamp, spread over
pokia - to be covered over, swamped, spread over
pokohiwi - shoulder
pōkokohua - a term of contempt - dickhead, bastard
pokorua - pit; ant
Pōkōtiwha! - A very strong swear word.
pōma - bomb
pōmarie - goodnight!
pona - cord; knot, tie in knot; ankle; knuckle
Pōneke - Wellington [Port Nicholson]
pōnga - nightfall
pongāihu - nostril
pongaponga - nostril
poniponi - pony; small
pono - true, faithful
pononga - servant; prisoner; slave
popo - decay; rotten
popoki - cover; cover over; kneecap; lid; spread over
pōpokorua - ant
pōpōngia - to be kneaded
pora - large sea-going canoe; foreign; stranger
poraka - jersey
poraka taratara - toad
pōrangi - crazy; idiot
pōrearea - nuisance
pōrera - mat
pōrihirihi - skull
pōro - ball (also 'paoro')
poroaki - to farewell
porohanga - piece, fragment
pōrohe - messy, untidy
porohita - ring (circle)
porohita - circle, round (variant of porowhita)
porohuri - overturn
poroka - frog
porokakī - neck
poroporo - bracelet; purple
poroporoaki - farewell speech; say goodbye to; a tribute to someone who has died
pororaru - bewildered
pōrori - to be slow
porotiti - disc; rotate
porou - eager, energetic
porowhawhe - merry-go-round
porowhita - circle, round (variant of porohita)
porowhiua - to throw
pōrutu - splash
pōtae - hat
pōtae mārō - helmet
pōtaka - spinning top
pōtari - snare
pōtarotaro - lawnmower
pōteretere - to be drifting about, backwards and forwards
pōti - vote
poti paku - dinghy
pōtiki - child; youngest child
poto - short
potopoto - short
pōturi - deaf; slow
pou - pole, post
pou niho - dentist
pou tātū - main post of house
pōua - grandfather; old person
pouaka - box
pouaka poutāpeta - PO box
pouaka whakaata - television
pouaru - widow; widower
poumatua - chief
pounamu - greenstone
poupou - father-in-law; mother-inlaw; old people; peg; post (especially inside meeting house); steep
poupoutanga o te rā - midday, noon
pourewa - elevated platform
pōuri - sad, dark
pōuriuri - gloomy; very dark
poururu - a frown
poutāpeta - post office
poutokomanawa - middle post of house
poutoti - stilts
Poutū-te-rangi - March
poutuarongo - back wall post of a meeting house
pouwhenua - pole-like weapon
pōwhiri - welcome
pū - to blow gently
pū hurihuri - pistol
pū riro mua - postposed genitive marker
pū riro muri - preposed genitive marker
pū rohe mua - pre-posed periphery particle
pū rohe muri - post-posed periphery particle
pū tohu wā - tense marker
pua - flower; seed
pūaha - mouth of river
puaki - come out, emerge
Puanga - Rigel - the seventh brightest star in the sky
pūangi - balloon
pūao - dawn
puare - open, opening
puāwai - flower; grey hair
puehu - dust
pūhā - green spinach-like vegetable
pūhaehae - envy, jealousy
pūhana - glow
puhi - to blow (wind)
pūhia - (pass) be blown; be shot
puhipuhi - blow or puff frequently; to smoke
pūhoi - slow; blunt
pūhuki - blunt (knife)
pūhungahunga - rough; unfinished
pūhuruhuru - hairy
pūhutihuti - to be shaggy, busy, unkempt
puia - hot spring; volcano
puka - form, booklet
pūkaea - large wooden wind instrument
pūkaha - engine
pūkai - to lie in a heap
Pukamata - Facebook
pūkana - stare with bulging eyes (fierce facial expressions used in actions songs and haka)
pūkanatanga - grimmacing
pukapuka - book, lungs
pukapuka pakiwaituhi - comic book
pūkarakara - fragrance (n), to be fragrant, well flavoured (s)
pukarangi - chromebook
puke - hill
pūkei - to lie in a heap
pūkēkē - arm; armpit
pūkenga - skills, skill, expertise, lecturer
pukepuke - hilly; small hill
pūkohu - mist
puku - stomach, belly
pukukino - grumpy
pukumahi - hard-working, industrious
pukupā - barren; childless
pukuriri - fury; furious; grumpy
pukutākaro - full of fun; playful
pūmahi - verbal particle
pūmanawa - to draw a long breath [v]; natural talent [n]
pūmanawa rorohiko - software
pūmau - fixed, permanent
pūmotomoto - the fontanelle of an infant
puna - pool, spring
puna hohunu - deep pool
puna kaukau - swimming pool
puna pāpaku - shallow pool
puna wai - spring
pune - spoon
punenga kupu - word processor
punga - anchor; joint
pūngao kōmaru - solar power
pungarehu - ashes
pūngāwerewere - spider
pūngene - sleeping bag
puni - camp; company; crowd; dam
pūnu - spoon
punua - young animal
punua kurī - puppy
punua poti - kitten
pūoro - to sing (v); a song, music (n)
pūoru - music
pupū - to bubble up, arise from
pupuhi - to shoot
pupuri - to hold onto
pupuritia - be held, be retained, kept possession of, gripped (pass of pupuri)
pura - blind; twinkle
pūrākau - traditional story
pūrama - light bulb
purapura - seed
pūrehu - moth
purei - to play, play
purepure - spotted; in patches
pūrere - appliance, machine (electric) (n); to escape (v)
pūrere horoi - washing machine
pūrere horoi maitai - dishwasher
pūrere whakaahua - photocopier
pūrerehua - butterfly
pūreretā - printer
purini - pudding
puritanga - a handle
puritia - held (pass. of puri)
pūrongo - a report
purotu - handsome
pūru - bull
purua - put in/blocked up (puru + passive suffix -a)
puruhi - flea
purūma - broom; sweep
purumatia - swept (pass of puruma)
purupuru - to stop chinks
pūruru - shady (of trees)
purutaringa - earphone
puta - to appear, to come out
pūtaiao - science
putaina - appeared (pass. of puta)
pūtake - agent emphatic
putanga - opening, exit
(puta + nominal suffix -nga)
pūtātara - shell trumpet; fund, funding
pūtē - wide-eyed stare
pūtea - budget, resources, money
pūtiki - knot; to knot; topknot
putiputi - flower
pūtohe - saxophone
pūtoko - slug
pūtōrino - flute-like instrument
putu - to heap up; a heap, pile
pūtūmua - joiner; particle/preposition
pūtūmua mahi (ki te, kia) - verb/action preposition (to do)
pūtūmua pūtake (i) - cause preposition (by, because of)
pūtūmua taputapu (ki) - object/tool preposition (with)
pūtūmua tūmahi (i/ki) - verb-object preposition
pūtūmua wā (i) - time preposition [at, in, during]
pūtūmua wāhi (ki) - locative preposition (to, at)
pūwāhi (i) - locative particle [from, on, in, at]
pūwhā - green spinach-like vegetable
rā - day; the sun; over there
rā whānau - birthday
Rāapa - Wednesday
rae - forehead; headland
raha - open; extended
rahi - large, numerous, great, big
Rāhina - Monday
raho - testicles
Rāhoroi - Saturday
rāhui - ban, place a ban; reserve
rahurahu - to handle; to interfere with
raihana - licence
raihana taraiwa - driver's licence
raihi - rice
rāina - line
raiona - lion
raka - yonder, over there; agile; lock
rākau - tree; timber
rākeitia - embellish (pass. of rākei)
raki - north
rakiraki - duck; rake; scrape
raku - scrape; scratch
rakuraku - to scratch (v)
rama - light, torch
rama waka - traffic lights
Rāmere - Friday
rānei - or
ranga - group of people; raise
rangahau - research (n), to seek, pursue, research (v)
rangahaua - to seek, search out, pursue, research, investigate.
rangatahi - youth, younger generation
rangatira - chief, leader, boss
rangatiratanga - control; greatness; freedom; kingdom; sovereignty
rangi - sky, day
rangimārie - peaceful
ranginamu - handsome
Ranginui - Atua of the sky
rangirua - uncertain
rangitahi - temporary
rangitoto - lava; scoria
rangiwhata - bragger
rangiwhāwhā - widespread, extensive, pervasive
rango - fly, blowfly (n); to hear (v)
rangona - to be heard (passive form of rongo)
ranu - to mix
ranua - mixed together (pass. of ranu)
ranunga - mixture
rāoa - choked
raorao - plains
rapa - to look for (v); rubber (n)
rapaia - be sought (pass of rapa)
raparapa - the ends of the bargeboards of meeting house; to guess
Rāpare - Thursday
rāpea - indeed
rāpeti - rabbit
rāpihi - rubbish
rapu - to look for
rapua - be looked for, to be searched for, sought (pass of ropu)
rapunga - a search
rapurapu - to be in doubt
rara - rib; shoal
rarahi - great; big (plural)
rārāina - smoked (pass of rÄrÄ)
raranga - plait; weave
rarangatanga - weaving (nom)
rarangatia - woven (pass of rangaranga)
rārangi - line, row
rārangi kupu - vocabulary
rārangi tatari - waiting list
rārangi tono - menu (computer)
rarata - quiet; tame (plural)
rarauhe - fern
rare - lolly
rarī - disturbance; uproar
raro - under, below; time
Rarohenga - the underworld
raru - trouble; to be in difficulty, in trouble
raruraru - trouble, problem; be in difficulty, in trouble
rata - friendly, at ease (adj); calm (n); to like (v)
rata kararehe - a vet
rātaka - diary
Rātapu - Sunday
ratarata - sharp
rātau - them; they (three or more people)
rātō - west
ratoa - to serve, provide, allocate
ratonga - service, services
ratonga ahi - fire service
rātou - they, them, three or more people
rātou ko - and also (joining 3 or more names eg. Bob, Jim and Fred)
Rātū - Tuesday
rau - hundred
rāua - them; they (two people)
rāua ko - and joining 2 names eg. Jim and Fred
rauawa - sides of a canoe
rauemi - resource
rauika - assembly; heap
Raukawa - Raukawa
Raukawa Moana - Cook Strait
raukoti - disturb; meddle
raukura - feather, plume
raumati - summer
raupā - cracked; calloused
raupani - frying-pan
raupapa - series; flat ground
raupatu - conquest; confiscate; take by force
raupeka - distress; doubt
raupō - reed, bulrush
raureka - deceitful
rauroha - extended
rauru - satisfied
rautaki - strategy
rautangi - perfume
rautao - leaves for wrapping food in oven; to wrap round with leaves
rautau - century
rautupu - thunderstorm
rawa - Various meanings, eg too, quite, very; really
rawa atu - even more, very
rawahanga - mischievous
rāwāhi - bank; shore; side; the other side; overseas
rāwaho - foreigner, outsider
rawakore - poor, homeless
rawatia - very (pas of rawa)
rawe - lovely, excellent
raweke - busy; disturb; prepare; meddle with
rawemākoi - naughty
rāwhara - raffle
rāwhiti - east
rea - murmur; to grow up
reanga - generation
rēhia - pleasure, amusement
rehu - to disappear (v); to split into chips (v); fine spray (n)
rehutai - sea spray
rei - bosom; chest; ivory; jewel; leap, rush; treasured possession; tusk
reia - (pass) to be sought after; to be popular
rēinga - leaping place
Reipa - Labour party
reiputa - ivory neck pendant
reira - there (previously mentioned)
reka - sweet
rekareka - pleasant, delighted
rekoata - record (n), to record (v)
rekoata o te ao - world record
rēmana - lemon
rēme - lamb
remu - tail feathers, posterior, buttock
reo - language, voice
reo ā-iwi - dialect
reo irirangi - radio
reo Pākehā - English language
rēpata - leopard
repe hūare pupuhi - mumps
repo - swamp; cannon
rere - to escape; to fly
rere ā-hapori - community transmission
rere kaimahi - agent/actor emphatic
rere pūriro - possessive [genitive] phrase
rere pūtake - cause emphatic
rere rirohanga - possessive phrase
rerea - flown (pass. of rere)
rereāhua - stative phrase/sentence
rereangi - hang-gliding
rerehāngū - passive [verb] sentence
rerehua - to be beautiful, aesthetically pleasing
rereingoa - noun phrase
rerekē - different, changed
rerekētanga - difference
reremahi - active [verb] sentence
reremau - definite nominal phrase
rerenga - sentence; flight, journey, voyage
rerenga ahi - fire escape
rerenga o Tama-nui-te-rā - solar system
rerenoa - indefinite nominal phrase
rerepū - simple phrase
rērere - run from one place to another
rerewā - temporal expressions, time phrases
rerewāhi - locative phrase
rerewhenua - railway
reri - ready
reta - letter
rēti - rent
reti - to skate, slide
rētihi - lettuce
retihuka - ski
retireti - skates, skating
retireti hukarere - skiing
retireti wai - hydroslide
retiwai - water-skiing
rētō - deep
reureu - lock of hair on the side of the head
rewa - float; melt; start; be elevated; mast
rēwana - Māori bread
rewarangi - pedestrian crossing
rewha - eyebrows; eyelid; cross- eyed
rewharewha - epidemic; influenza, flu
rewherī - referee
rīanga - insurance
rīhi - dish; dishes; lease
rikarika - hesitating
riketa - regatta
rīki - leek; onion
rima - five
rima meneti ki te iwa karaka - five minutes to nine
rima meneti ki te ono karaka - five minutes to six
rima meneti ki te rima karaka - five minutes to five
rima meneti ki te rua karaka - five minutes to two
rima meneti ki te tahi karaka - five minutes to one
rima meneti ki te tekau karaka - five minutes to ten
rima meneti ki te tekau mā rua karaka - five minutes to twelve
rima meneti ki te tekau mā tahi karaka - five minutes to eleven
rima meneti ki te toru karaka - five minutes to three
rima meneti ki te waru karaka - five minutes to eight
rima meneti ki te whā karaka - five minutes to four
rima meneti ki te whitu karaka - five minutes to seven
rima meneti pāhi i te iwa karaka - five minutes past nine
rima meneti pāhi i te ono karaka - five minutes past six
rima meneti pāhi i te rima karaka - five minutes past five
rima meneti pāhi i te rua karaka - five minutes past two
rima meneti pāhi i te tahi karaka - five minutes past one
rima meneti pāhi i te tekau karaka - five minutes past ten
rima meneti pāhi i te tekau mā rua karaka - five minutes past twelve
rima meneti pāhi i te tekau mā tahi karaka - five minutes past eleven
rima meneti pāhi i te toru karaka - five minutes past three
rima meneti pāhi i te waru karaka - five minutes past eight
rima meneti pāhi i te whā karaka - five minutes past four
rima meneti pāhi i te whitu karaka - five minutes past seven
rima tekau - fifty
rimu - red pine
rimurimu - seaweed; moss
rīnena - deep
ringa - hand, arm
ringakuti - fist
ringaringa - hand, arm
ringawera - cook, kitchenhand
ringi - to pour
rīngi ring ringi - to pour
ringihia - pour in! poured in (pass. of ringi)
rino - iron
ripa - furrow; ridge
rīpeka - cross; crucify
rīpene - ribbon, tape
rīpene ataata - video tape
ripi - frisbee
ripo - deep pool; whirlpool
rīpoata - report
rirerire - extremely beautiful
riri - anger, angry
rīria - (pass) to get in trouble, be told off
rīringi - to pour
riringihia - pour! poured in (pass. of riringi)
ririu - to pass by
riro - gone away; to be awarded: acquired, obtained
rita - litre
rite - to be ready, like, similar
rite tonu - just like
ritenga - custom; habit; likeness
rito - middle shoot of a plant
riu - valley
rīwai - potato
rīwai parai - french fries
rō - in (short form of roto, as in: ki rō whare)
rō whare - indoors
roa - long
roa ake - taller, longer
roa noa - for a long time
roanga - length of time
(roa + nominal suffix -nga)
rohe - district, area, boundary, territory
rohea - weary
roherohe - mark off by boundary; to separate
rohi - loaf
rōhia - to be calm, smooth, tranquil
rōia - lawyer
roimata - tears
rokiroki - used up; preserve
rokohanga - found; reached; to be happened upon
rongo - to hear, perceive, feel
rongoā - medicine
rongona - heard (pass. of rongo)
rongonui - famous
rongopuku - overhear
rōpā - slave, servant
rōpere - strawberry
rōpū - group
rorerore - barbecue
rori - road
rorirori - clumsy; stammering; silly
roro - brain
roroa - long (plural)
rorohiko - computer
roroi - to grate into a pulp
roromi - crush; squeeze
rota - lottery
roto - in, inside, within; lake
rou mamao - remote control
roumamao - remote control (for TV)
rourou - small basket, food basket
rū - earthquake; shake
rua - two; grave, hole, storage pit
Rua mano - 2000
Rua mano mā iwa - 2009
Rua mano mā ono - 2006
Rua mano mā rima - 2005
Rua mano mā rua - 2002
Rua mano mā tahi - 2001
Rua mano mā toru - 2003
Rua mano mā waru - 2008
Rua mano mā whā - 2004
Rua mano mā whitu - 2007
Rua mano rua tekau - 2020
Rua mano rua tekau mā rua - 2022
Rua mano rua tekau mā tahi - 2021
Rua mano rua tekau mā toru - 2023
Rua mano tekau - 2010
Rua mano tekau mā iwa - 2019
Rua mano tekau mā ono - 2016
Rua mano tekau mā rima - 2015
Rua mano tekau mā rua - 2012
Rua mano tekau mā tahi - 2011
Rua mano tekau mā toru - 2013
Rua mano tekau mā waru - 2018
Rua mano tekau mā whā - 2014
Rua mano tekau mā whitu - 2017
rua tekau - twenty
rua tekau mā rima meneti ki te iwa karaka - twenty-five minutes to nine
rua tekau mā rima meneti ki te ono karaka - twenty-five minutes to six
rua tekau mā rima meneti ki te rima karaka - twenty-five minutes to five
rua tekau mā rima meneti ki te rua karaka - twenty-five minutes to two
rua tekau mā rima meneti ki te tahi karaka - twenty-five minutes to one
rua tekau mā rima meneti ki te tekau karaka - twenty-five minutes to ten
rua tekau mā rima meneti ki te tekau mā rua karaka - twenty-five minutes to twelve
rua tekau mā rima meneti ki te tekau mā tahi karaka - twenty-five minutes to eleven
rua tekau mā rima meneti ki te toru karaka - twenty-five minutes to three
rua tekau mā rima meneti ki te waru karaka - twenty-five minutes to eight
rua tekau mā rima meneti ki te whā karaka - twenty-five minutes to four
rua tekau mā rima meneti ki te whitu karaka - twenty-five minutes to seven
rua tekau mā rima meneti pāhi i te iwa karaka - twenty-five minutes past nine
rua tekau mā rima meneti pāhi i te ono karaka - twenty-five minutes past six
rua tekau mā rima meneti pāhi i te rima karaka - twenty-five minutes past five
rua tekau mā rima meneti pāhi i te rua karaka - twenty-five minutes past two
rua tekau mā rima meneti pāhi i te tahi karaka - twenty-five minutes past one
rua tekau mā rima meneti pāhi i te tekau karaka - twenty-five minutes past ten
rua tekau mā rima meneti pāhi i te tekau mā rua karaka - twenty-five minutes past twelve
rua tekau mā rima meneti pāhi i te tekau mā tahi karaka - twenty-five minutes past eleven
rua tekau mā rima meneti pāhi i te toru karaka - twenty-five minutes past three
rua tekau mā rima meneti pāhi i te waru karaka - twenty-five minutes past eight
rua tekau mā rima meneti pāhi i te whā karaka - twenty-five minutes past four
rua tekau mā rima meneti pāhi i te whitu karaka - twenty-five minutes past seven
rua tekau meneti ki te iwa karaka - twenty minutes to nine
rua tekau meneti ki te ono karaka - twenty minutes to six
rua tekau meneti ki te rima karaka - twenty minutes to five
rua tekau meneti ki te rua karaka - twenty minutes to two
rua tekau meneti ki te tahi karaka - twenty minutes to one
rua tekau meneti ki te tekau karaka - twenty minutes to ten
rua tekau meneti ki te tekau mā rua karaka - twenty minutes to twelve
rua tekau meneti ki te tekau mā tahi karaka - twenty minutes to eleven
rua tekau meneti ki te toru karaka - twenty minutes to three
rua tekau meneti ki te waru karaka - twenty minutes to eight
rua tekau meneti ki te whā karaka - twenty minutes to four
rua tekau meneti ki te whitu karaka - twenty minutes to seven
rua tekau meneti pāhi i te iwa karaka - twenty minutes past nine
rua tekau meneti pāhi i te ono karaka - twenty minutes past six
rua tekau meneti pāhi i te rima karaka - twenty minutes past five
rua tekau meneti pāhi i te rua karaka - twenty minutes past two
rua tekau meneti pāhi i te tahi karaka - twenty minutes past one
rua tekau meneti pāhi i te tekau karaka - twenty minutes past ten
rua tekau meneti pāhi i te tekau mā rua karaka - twenty minutes past twelve
rua tekau meneti pāhi i te tekau mā tahi karaka - twenty minutes past eleven
rua tekau meneti pāhi i te toru karaka - twenty minutes past three
rua tekau meneti pāhi i te waru karaka - twenty minutes past eight
rua tekau meneti pāhi i te whā karaka - twenty minutes past four
rua tekau meneti pāhi i te whitu karaka - twenty minutes past seven
rua wiki - fortnight
ruahine - old woman; priestess
rūahu - lying
ruaki - vomit
ruaki moana - seasick
ruakitia - vomited (pass. of ruaki)
ruānuku - magician
ruarua - few
ruha - worn out
ruhi - exhausted
rui - shake; scatter; sow
ruia - (pass) be shaken; be scattered; be sown
rūkahu - be false, exaggerate
rukaruka - completely; utterly
ruku - to dive
rukuhia - (pass) be sunk
rukuruku - dive or dip frequently; wrap up small
rūma - room
rūma horoi kākahu - laundry
rūma kai - dining room
rūma kaukau - bathroom
rūma moe - bedroom
rūma noho - living room
rūma unuunu - changing room
rumaki - immerse, immersion; dip; drown; bury
rumakiana - planted (pass. of rumaki)
rūnanga - assembly; council
runga - on
runga ake - upwards, above
runga anō - in accordance with
rūpahu - nonsense; lie, tell lies rure scatter; shake
rūpeke - gather
rūri - ruler; survey (land)
rūrū - to shake hands, wave about (v), handshake (n)
rūruhi - elderly woman
rutu - bump, throw down, tackle
rutua - (pass) be jolted; be tackled; be tossed about
tā - print, draw
tā kōrua - your (singular, addressed to two people)
tā koutou - your (singular, addressed to three or more people)
tā mātou - our [singular, theirs and mine]
tā māua - our (singular, his or hers and mine)
tā moko - art of tattooing
tā rātou - their (singular, three or more people)
tā rāua - their (singular, two people)
tā tātou - our (singular, three or more people)
tā tāua - our (singular, two people)
tae - to reach, arrive (v); colour (n)
tae atu - arrived there
tae atu ki - as far as; including
tae mai - arrive here
tae noa ki - up until
tae rawa - by the time
taea - to be able, to be achieved (tae + passive suffix -a)
taenga - arrival (tae + nominal suffix -nga)
tāepa - fence
taewa - potato
taewa parai - french fries
tahā - calabash, gourd
taha oranga - fitness
taha raro - underside
tāhae - to steal
tahaki - shore (from the sea); to one side
tahanga - empty; slightly, a bit; naked
tahataha - steep bank
tahatai - seashore
tahatika - coastline
tāhau - your, ā category possession, singular (variant of tāu)
tahe - flow; menstruation
tāhei - necklace; stripes
tāheke - descend, drop; steep; waterfall
tahi - one
tahi - one, single
tahia - (pass) be swept
tahirapa - rubber, eraser
tahitahi - to sweep
tahitahia - sweep! swept (pass. of tahitahi)
tāhoe - to swim (from one point to another)
tahu - burn; cook; light (set on fire); husband, wife; lover
tahua - pile of food; sum of money
tāhuahua - be in lumps or hillocks, sanddunes
tāhuhu - subject of a sentence
tāhuhu kōrero - history
tahumaero - sickness, disease
tāhuna - beach; sandbank; dry
tahuri - to capsize
tai - tide; coast
tai āniwhaniwha - tidal wave
Tai Rāwhiti - East Coast
Tai Tokerau - Northland
tāia - to be dumped, struck, beaten, thumped, thrown down, tackled, overcome, (pass of tā)
taiaha - weapon (a long hardwood weapon with a pointed tongue at one end and a long flat narrow blade at the other)
taiao - world, earth, environment, country
taiapa - fence
taiapo - carry
taiatea - afraid; nervous
taiāwhio - to go around, encircle
taiāwhiotia - surrounded
taiepa - fence; wall (freestanding )
taihoa - wait
Taihoa! - Hang on!
taika - tiger
tāiki - rib; wicker basket
tāima - time
taimaha - heavy
taimana - diamond
taimau - betrothed, engaged
tāina - (plural of taina) younger brothers of a male, younger sisters of a female
taiohi - youngsters
taipa - be silent
taipō - goblin
taitai - to wrestle, knock
taitai niho - toothbrush
taitaia - wrestled, knocked (pass. to taitai)
taitama - young man
taitamāhine - young woman
taitamaiti - child
taitamariki - young person, young people
taitara - title
Tāite - Thursday
taitea - pale; sapwood; white
taitoa - brave
Taitoko - Levin
taitonga - south
taiwhanga - place, waiting room; to wait
taiwhanga ako - classroom
taiwhanga pūtaiao - laboratory
taka - to come around in a cycle; to fall from a height
takahi - trample; tread; stamp; disobey, violate
takahia - trampled (pass. of takahi)
tākai - bind; wrap up; bandage
takaina - (pass) be heaped up
takakau - at leisure; unmarried
takakino - act hurriedly; to abuse; to debase; to spoil
takapapa - tablecloth
takapau - floor-mat
takapū - belly; calf of leg
takarangi - faint; giddy; stagger
tākaro - to play
tākaro ataata - video game
tākaro rorohiko - computer game
tākarotia - played (pass. of tākaro)
takataka - make ready, prepare.
takatāpui - a member of the LGBTQ community, queer, gar
takatū - prepare, get ready
take - beginning, cause, origin
tāke moni whiwhi - take beginning, cause, origin, reason; subject of discussion
takenga - origin, beginning, source
takere - bottom (of sea, river); hull; keel
taketake - base; ancient; original; lasting
taki - to lead, to bring along
taki puta - go outside!
tākina - taken to one side; take to one side! (pass. of tāki)
Takirau - moon on the seventeenth (eighteenth or nineteenth) night of the lunar month
tākiri - draw away quickly; untie; pull out; strike (a match)
tākirirangi - space rocket
tākiritanga - start
takirua - in pairs, two at a time
takitahi - individually, one at a time
takitaki - appear; provoke; revenge; look for; recite
takitaro - moment
takitini - in droves
takiwā - district, region
tākoha - gift
takoki - to sprain
takoto - to lie down
takotoranga - position, site
takotoria - (pass) be laid down
taku - my (singular); edge
taku whakapae - my guess
takuahi - fireplace
takune - pretend
takunga - an excuse
tākupu - gannet
takurua - winter
tākuta - doctor
takutai - sea coast
takutaku - recite; threaten
tama - son, nephew (term of address for a boy, son: tama)
tamāhine - daughter
tamaiti - child
tamaiti whāngai - adopted child
tāmaki - omen, portent
Tāmaki Makaurau - Auckland
Tāmaki-makau-rau - Auckland
tamariki - children (plural form of tamaiti)
tāmaru - overcast
tamatāne - boy
Tamatea - moon on the eighth night of the lunar month
Tamatea-aio - moon on the seventh night of the lunar month
tame - male animal
tame heihei - rooster
tāmiro - twist
tāmirotia - (pass) be twisted
tamumu - hum; buzz
tamumutia - (pass) be hummed
tāmure - snapper
tāmutumutu - intermittent
tana - his/her (neutral category); ton
tāne - man, male
tānga - circumstance, place of beating; edition, hard copy
tāngari - dungarees
tāngata - people (plural of tangata)
tangata whenua - people of the land, home crowd
tangatanga - comfortable
tangi - to cry; to make a sound
tangihanga - funeral
tangihia - be mourned (pass of tangi)
tangiweto - cry; cry-baby
tango - to take hold of
tango mai - receive
tangohanga - betrothal, engagement; marriage
tangohia - pick up! (command); taken away (tango + passive suffix -hia)
tangotango - to handle; use
tāniko - ornamental border of cloak or mat
taniwha - monster, traditional guardian of bodies of water
tanoni - be sprained
tanu - bury; plant
tanumi - disappear behind
tao - to cook
taokete - brother-in-law (of a male), sister-in-law (of a female)
taona - cooked; cook! (pass. of tao)
tāone - town
tāone nui - city
taonga - property, possession
taoroa - long spear
tapa - to call, name, recite
tapa - to name
tapa tāone - suburb
tāpae - to present; put before one
tāpaepae - jigsaw puzzle
tapahi - to cut up, chop
tapahia - cut! to be cut (tapahi + passive suffix -a)
tapahinga makawe - haircut
tapaia - (pass) be named; be recited
tapairu - princess
tāpapa - stoop; lie face down
tapatapahi - cut in pieces
tāpatua - covered; cover! (pass. of tāpatu)
tapawhā rite - square
tapeke - sum; the score; total
tāpi - sticking plaster
tāpiapia - sticky
tāpiri - to join something on, to add
tāpiri ati - in addition to
tāpirihia - add! added (pass. of tāpiri)
tapitapi - to patch, mend, repair, gather together
tāpoi - tourist
tāpokopoko - boggy
tāpōrena - raincoat
tapou - dejected; miserable
tāpu - bath
tāpua - prominent, significant
tapuhi - to nurse; a nurse
tāpui - set aside; reserve, to book something
taputapu - gear, equipment
taputapu ā whare - furniture
taputapu tākaro - sports equipment
tapuwae - footprint
tara - point; spike; peak; wall; sea bird
tarahae - jealousy, envy (n), to quarrel, bicker (v)
tārai - to shape or fashion timber with an adze
tāraia - (pass) be shaped with an adze
taraihe - sideboard
taraihikara - tricycle
taraiwa - to drive; driver
taraiwatia - driven (pass. of taraiwa)
taraka - truck
tarakihana - tractor
tarakona - dragon
tarapeke - jump
Tararua - Twin Peaks
taratahi - quarantine
tarau - trousers
tarau poto - shorts
tarau tāngari - jeans
taraute - trout
tarawhiti - a ring
tare - doll
tārehu - secretly
tārere - to swing
tārewa - raised up; provisional; unpaid; unresolved
tari - government department; office
tāria - (pass) be waited for; be expected; after a time
tāriana - boar
taringa - ear
taro - presently, by and by (as in: taro ake)
taro ake - in a little while
taro kau iho - in a very little while
tāroaroa - tall
tarotaro - cut the hair
tārū - painful; shake
tārua - after a while; repeat
tarukino - illegal drugs, cannabis
tārūrū - painful; shaking
tarutaru - grass, weeds, cannabis
tata - near; nearly; close
tātahi - seaside, beach
tātai - to arrange, to set in order
tātaitai - calculator
tātaki kupu - spelling
tatangi tatau - doorbell
tatao - younger brother or sister; deep; to droop
tātari - sieve; sift; analyse; review
tātau - we; us; everyone
tatau - to count
tataunga - counting
tāte - pastry tart
tātou - we, us, inclusive, three or more people
tatu - stumble, trip
tātua - a belt
tātua tūru - seatbelt
tāu - your (singular + one item)
tau - to land, settle; be calm; to attack; lover; handsome; year; age; number
tau kē - awesome!
tau mai - came
tau peke - leap year
taua - that, previously mentioned (singular)
taua āhua anō - same as (idiom)
tauawhi - to hug, embrace, support
tauera - towel
tauhou - strange, unfamiliar; stranger
tauihu - bow of canoe
tauine - ruler (stationery)
tauira - student; example
tauiwi - foreign race; strange tribe
taukiri - expresses distress, surprise
taukumekume - debate
taumaha - difficult of spirit or health; to be heavy (s), weight (n)
taumāhekeheke - competition
taumahi - assignment
taumārō - obstinate
taumaru - shaded
taumarumaru - shady (of trees)
taumata - grade, level of achievement
taumau - betrothal; betroth; betrothed; reserve for oneself
taunga - to be accustomed to, familiar with
taunga ika - fishing ground
taunga wakarererangi - airport
tauomaoma - race (running)
taupā - to obstruct, prevent (v); obstacle (n)
taupaki - to pat, slap
tauparapara - chant at beginning of speech
taupatupatu - to compete with one another; contradict
taupiripiri - arm-in-arm
taupoki - to cover, close with a lid; lid, cover
taura - rope, cable
taura piu - skipping rope
tauraki - tumble-drier; drought; to dry in the sun
tauranga - anchorage; fishing ground; resting place
tauranga waka - car park
taurangi - changeable; incomplete; wanderer
taurapa - stern-post of a canoe
taurekareka - scoundrel; slave
taurima - entertain; hospitality
taurima rererangi - flight attendant
taurite - alike; opposite
tāuru - source; top (of tree etc)
taurua - double, in pairs
tautahi - only child
tautara - fishing rod
tautau - to hang down
tautāwhi - to come to the assistance of, support
taute - look after; prepare; mourn
tautika - even; straight
tautohe - contend; contest
tautohea - debated, argued (pass of tautohe)
tautohetohe - argue
tautohu - to identify, locate
tautoko - to support
tautokohia - support (v) pass
tautokona - (pass) be supported
tautopenga - goalkeeper
Tautoru - Orion's Belt
taututetute - jostle one another
tauwaka - numberplate
tauwehe - separate; to be separated
tauwhanga - ambush
tauwharenga - overhanging
tauwhiro - social worker; tend, care for
tawa - purple, tower
tāwāhi - overseas
tawaki - crested penguin
tāwara - flavour
tāwhaki - Fiordland crested penguin
tāwhana - curved
tāwhaowhao - driftwood
tāwhe - travel
tawhi - toffee
tāwhiri - beckon
tawhiti - distant, a distant place
tawhito - old, former
te - the, singular definite article
te hītori - history
Te Ika-a-Māui - North Island
te mātauranga - education
te mātauranga māori - māori studies
te mātauranga tōrangapū - politics
Te Moana o Raukawa - Cook Strait
Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa - Pacific Ocean
te pākihi - business
Te Papa-i-Oea - Palmerston North
te puoro - music
te pūtaiao - science
te rangi nei - this day
te reka hoki - delicious!
Te Tai Rāwhiti - East Coast
Te Tai Tokerau - Northland
Te Tai Tonga - Southland
te tātai hinengaro - psychology
te tauhokohoko - commerce
te ture - law
Te Waipounamu - South Island
te whakaako - teaching
Te Whanga-nui-a-Tara - Wellington
Te Whanganui-a-Tara - Wellington
Te-Tai-Tonga - Southland
tea - white; clear
tēhea - which, singular
tēhea? - which? (singular)
teihana - TV channel; railway station
teihana hinu - petrol station
teihana tereina - train station
teina - younger sibling, same sex
teitei - tall, high, lofty; height (object)
teka - lying (v); lie (n)
tekau - ten
tekau ma iwa - ninteen
tekau ma ono - sixteen
tekau ma rima - fifteen
tekau ma rua - twelve
tekau ma tahi - eleven
tekau ma toru - thirteen
tekau ma waru - eighteen
tekau ma whÄ - fourteen
tekau ma whitu - seventeen
tekau meneti ki te iwa karaka - ten minutes to nine
tekau meneti ki te ono karaka - ten minutes to six
tekau meneti ki te rima karaka - ten minutes to five
tekau meneti ki te rua karaka - ten minutes to two
tekau meneti ki te tahi karaka - ten minutes to one
tekau meneti ki te tekau karaka - ten minutes to ten
tekau meneti ki te tekau mā rua karaka - ten minutes to twelve
tekau meneti ki te tekau mā tahi karaka - ten minutes to eleven
tekau meneti ki te toru karaka - ten minutes to three
tekau meneti ki te waru karaka - ten minutes to eight
tekau meneti ki te whā karaka - ten minutes to four
tekau meneti ki te whitu karaka - ten minutes to seven
tekau meneti pāhi i te iwa karaka - ten minutes past nine
tekau meneti pāhi i te ono karaka - ten minutes past six
tekau meneti pāhi i te rima karaka - ten minutes past five
tekau meneti pāhi i te rua karaka - ten minutes past two
tekau meneti pāhi i te tahi karaka - ten minutes past one
tekau meneti pāhi i te tekau karaka - ten minutes past ten
tekau meneti pāhi i te tekau mā rua karaka - ten minutes past twelve
tekau meneti pāhi i te tekau mā tahi karaka - ten minutes past eleven
tekau meneti pāhi i te toru karaka - ten minutes past three
tekau meneti pāhi i te waru karaka - ten minutes past eight
tekau meneti pāhi i te whā karaka - ten minutes past four
tekau meneti pāhi i te whitu karaka - ten minutes past seven
tekoteko - carved figure on top of whare
tēnā - that, by the listener
tēnā ko tēnei - but on the other hand
tēnā koe - hello to one person
tēnā koe! - hello! (to one person); thank you
tēnā kōrua! - hello! (to two people); thank you
Tēnā koutou - greetings to you (more than 2)
tēnā koutou! - hello! (to three or more people); thank you
tene - impromptu
tēnehi - tennis
tēnei - this (by speaker); this is; this
tēnei rā - today
tenetene - vagina
tēneti - tent
tepetepe - jellyfish
tēpu - table
tēpu kāwhe - coffee table
tēpu tuhituhi - desk
tērā - that over there, that
tērā pea - perhaps
tērā taha - over there, beyond
tērā tau - last year; next year
tērā tonu - perhaps
tere - to flow, float, move quickly; fast
tereina - to train
tereinatia - to be trained (pass. of tereina)
tero - rectum, anus
tētahi - a, one specific thing
tētahi atu - another
tētahi ki tētahi - one another
tētahi mea - something
tētahi tangata - somebody
tētahi wāhi - somewhere
tētehi - a, one specific thing (variant of tētahi)
tetetete - chatter; rattle
teti pea - teddy bear
tewha - working songs or chants
tewhatewha - long wooden axe- shaped club
tēwhea? - which? (singular)
tī - cabbage tree; tea
tī amiami - herbal tea
tī hāte - t-shirt
tī ingarihi - English tea
tī kawakawa - kawakawa tea
tī kikini - chai tea
tī kōuka - cabbage tree
tī pepahīoi - peppermint tea
tī rākau - stick game
tia - to steer, adorned
tīaho - shine
tiaina - to be steered (pass. of tia)
tiakarete - chocolate
tiakarete wera - hot chocolate
tiakete - jacket
tiaki - to look after, to care for
tiakina - (pass) be looked after
Tiamani - Germany
tiamu - jam
tiana - driven in; stick in! drive in [pegs]! (pass of tia)
tīare - scent
tieke - cheque
tiemi - see-saw
tiemiemi - see-saw
tīere - scent; jelly
tīhae - tear, rip
tīhaea - (pass) be torn
tīhāte - t-shirt
tihe - sneeze
tihei - to sneeze
Tīhema - December
tihewa - sneeze
tīhi - cheese
tīhore - bare; to strip off; peel; clear, clear up (weather)
tika - to be right, correct, straight, in order
tika tonu - quite right
tīkākā - sunburn
tikanga - reason, meaning, right way of doing things, custom (tika + nominal suffix -nga)
tikanga maha - multicultural
tikanga o te wā - the fashion
tikanga rua - bicultural
tīkaokao - hen
tīkera - kettle
tiketike - height; high; important
tiki - to fetch
tīkina - be fetched (tiki + passive suffix -na (note the first i is lengthened)
tīkiri - degree [temperature]
tīkiti - ticket
tikitiki - topknot
tikitiwhi - detective
tiko - to defecate; excrement
tīma - team
tīmata - to begin, to start
tīmatanga - beginning
(tīmata + nominal suffix -nga)
timatatanga - beginning
tīmatatia - begun (pass of tīmata)
tīmere - chimney
timotimo - to peck
timu - ebb tide; shoulder; end
tina - dinner, lunch
tinana - body, trunk, torso
tinei - turn off, extinguish
tīneia - (pass) be put out
tīngaku - obliterated, destroyed
tini - to be very many, numerous, plenty; multitude, throng, many
tinihanga - to trick, amuse with trickery
tinihangatanga - cheating (nom)
tino - very
tino hāneanea - luxury
tino kaitā - enormous
tino nui - giant, huge
tino pai! - very good!
tino rangatiratanga - sovereignty
tino taonga - valuable
tino tau - impressive, flash
tino tika - exact
tio - oyster
tioka - chalk
tīpako - select
tīpakopako - now and then; occasional
tīpare - headband
tipi - glide; slice
tipu - to grow (v); a plant, shoot
tipua - a person of high status
tīpuna - grandparents (plural form of tipuna)
tipuna - grandparent, ancestor
tīpune - teaspoon
tipuria - (pass) be grown
tira - group or row of people
tira pūoru - orchestra
tīraha - lie face upwards
tīrairaka - fantail
tīrama - shine, glimmer
tīramaroa - lighthouse
tirara - daffodil
tiria - planted; plant [root crops]! (pass. of tiri)
tiripou - walking stick (with a handle)
Tiritama! - Silly boy!
tiriti - street
tiritiria - cultivated, tilled; till [the soil]! (pass. of tiritiri)
tiro - to look
tiro mākutu - stare
tirohanga - view, sight, aspect (tiro + nominal suffix -hanga)
tirohia - to be looked at, seen/found (pass of tiro)
tirotiro - to look, gaze upon, investigate
tītaha - to lean to one side (v), to be sideways, slanting (s)
tītaora - tea towel
tītere - pitch, throw, cast
titi - comb; insert; peg; pin; shine
titiro - to look at
titiro haere - sight-seeing
titiwai - glow-worm
tito - compose story or song; fiction; invent
tītoko - to keep away
tītongi - nibble
tītore - divide; split
tiu - north; north wind; soar
tiutiu - sparrow; thrush
tīwaha - to shout, call, yell
tiwha - mark; spot
tīwhaiwhai - wave about
tīwharawhara - stereo
tiwhikete - certificate
tō - your (singular); to drag
tō kōrua - your (singular, addressed to two people)
tō koutou - your (addressed to three or more people)
tō mātou - our (singular, theirs and mine)
tō māua - our (singular, his or hers and mine)
tō rātou - their (singular - three or more people)
tō rāua - their (singular, two people)
tō tātou - our, all of our, belonging to everyone
tō tāua - our, yours and mine
tō-ā-papa - gravity (force of)
toa - shop; male animal; expert; to be strong
toa hokohoko - second hand shop
toa rongoā - chemist
toanga - bravery
toe - to remain, be left over
toenga - leftovers, remnants (toe + nominal suffix -nga)
toetoe - grass, rushes
toha - distribute; allocate
tohaina - spread out; spread! scatter! (pass. of toha); shared (pass); share!
tohatoha - to spread around, to disperse
tohatohaina - (pass) be distributed, be allocated
tōhau - dew; sweat
tohe - to be persistent, stubborn (s), to object, argue, protest (v)
tohea - (pass) be argued about
tohi - divide, separate; ceremony for newborn baby
tōhihi - puddle
tohitū - direct; straight
tohorā - whale
tohu - a qualification, eg degree
tohua - marked (tohu + passive suffix -a)
tohunga - expert, priest
tohunga tā moko - skilled tattoo artist
tohunga whakairo - master carver
tohungia - (pass) be marked; be preserved; be pointed out
tohutaka - recipe
tohutō - macron
tohutoa - medal
tohutohu - to instruct; to guide, direct; instructions, directions
tohutohua - instructed; instruct! (pass. of tohutohu)
toi - art, knowledge
tōia - (pass) be dragged
toitoi - jogging; trot
toitū - entire; permanent; undisturbed
toka - rock
tokanga - large basket for food
toke - worm
toke hore - tall person
tōkena - stockings, socks
tokerau - autumn; northern
toki - adze, axe; champion
toko - divorce; pole
tokohia - how many people?
tokohia? - how many [people]?
tokoiwa - nine [people]
tokomaha - many (of people)
tokomauri - hiccup
tokoono - six [people]
tokorima - five [people]
tokorua - two [people]
tokotoko - walking stick (without a handle)
tokotoru - three [people]
tokowaru - eight [people]
tokowhÄ - four [people]
tokowhia? - how many people?
tokowhitu - seven [people]
tōku - my (singular)
tōmairangi - dew
tōmato - tomato
tomo - to enter, go into
tomokanga - entrance
tomokia - (pass) be entered
tōmua - early
tōmuri - to be late
tōna - his, her
tōna rua - about two
tōna tikanga - supposedly
tōnapi - turnip
tōneke - trolley
tonga - south
tōnga o te rā - sunset
tōnihi - move stealthily
tono - to apply for, to order (v):
an application (n)
tonoa - sent (tono + passive suffix -a)
tonu - still
tonutia - still (pass of tonu)
toparere - helicopter
tope - cut down; cut off
topea - (pass) be cut down; be cut off
topenga - cross-section, pieces
tōpito - end; district
tōpū - couple, pair; assembled
tōrangapū - politics; political
tōraro - negative number
tōrea - oystercatcher
toremi - disappear; drowned
tori - cut (v); cat (n)
toro - to visit
toroa - albatross
torohē - examine
tōroherohe - wag (as in a dog wagging its tail)
torohīhihi - short hair; few hairs
torohū - secret; secretly; stealthily
toroī - fermented food
toroiho - underwear
toromi - be drowned
torōna - throne
toronga - distant relatives
torongitanga - sinking
torotika - in a straight line
torotoro - hold out hands
toru - three
toru tekau - thirty
torutoru - few
tōtā - sweat
tote - salt
toti - limp (walk with difficulty)
tōtika - straight, direct, right
tōtiti - sausage
tōtiti wera - hot dog
totō - ooze; trickle
totohe - contend
totohu - to sink
totoro - stretch out
tōu - your, ō category possession, singular
toutou - dip into liquid
tū - stand; to be wounded; a wound
tū tirara - social distancing
tua - beyond
tua atu - in addition to
tuahangata - hero
tuāhine - female cousins or sisters of a male
tuahiwi - skeleton
tūāhu - altar
tūāhua - adjectives and statives
tūāhua kori - dynamic statives
tūāhua noa - inert/static statives
tūāhua oti - neuter/stative verbs
tūai - skinny
tuaitara - spines
tuaiwa - ninth
tuākana - older brothers of a male; older sisters of a female
tuaki - to gut fish
tuakina - (pass) be gutted
tuakiri - personality, identity
tuangahuru - tenth
tuangi - cockle
tuanui - roof
tuaono - sixth
tuarā - back [body]
tūāraki - northern, to the north
tūārangi - from far away; ancient; important
tuarea - anxious; sorrowful
tuarima - fifth
tuarongo - back wall of house
tuarua - second
tuatahi - first
tuatangata - hero
tuatea - anxious; pale
tuatete - hedgehog
tuatoru - third
tuatua - chop up finely; main range; shellfish
tūāua - shower (rain)
tuauru - west coast
tuawaru - eighth
tuawehe - split
tuawhā - fourth
tuawhenua - mainland; inland
tuawhitu - seventh
tuha - to distribute; to spit, to spit out
tuhaina - spat out (pass); spit it out!
tuhi - to write; to indicate, point out
tuhi ā ringa - handwriting
tuhia - written; write! (tuhi + passive suffix -a)
tuhinga - writing, text
(tuhi + nominal suffix -nga)
tuhinga kūkara - google docs
tuhingaroa - thesis, dissertation
tuhituhi - to write, draw
tuhituhi anuanu - graffiti
tuhituhia - (pass) be drawn; be written
tuhituhinga - writing, text (tuhituhi + nominal suffix -nga)
tūhoetanga - midday, noon
tūhourangi - uncultured, rough
tūhua - obsidian
tui - pierce; sew; thread; lace
tuia - (pass) be pierced; be sewn
tūingoa - noun
tūingoa kurehu - abstract noun
tūiri - a drill
tuitui - fasten up; sew, to stitch
tūkaha - hasty; vigorous
tukanga - process, method, procedure
tūkē - adverb
tūkeke - lazy
tukemata - eyebrow
tuketuke - elbow
tuki - to hit, to knock, to beat, to pound; crash
tukia - be hit; be pounded; be attacked, be crashed into; be bumped (pass of tuki)
tūkino - abuse; wicked
tukituki - to wreck; destroy
tuku - to put off, to leave aside
tuku iho - passed down
tukua - let go! to be released (tuku + passive suffix -a)
tukuata - projector
tukuna - submitted, submit! released, release! (tuku + passive suffix -na)
tukuoro - speaker (eg bluetooth speaker)
tukutuku - spider web
tūmahi - actions, verbs
tūmahi āhua - neuter verbs [statives]
tūmahi poro - intransitive verb
tūmahi wheako - experiential verb
tūmahi whiti - transitive verb
tūmahi whiti-kore - intransitive verb
tūmanako - to hope for, anticipate, expect, wish for
tūmatanui - public (not private)
tūmau - permanent, continuous; servant
tumeke - to take fright, surprise
tūmoko - personal noun
tūmomo - type, sort, kind
tumu - stump
tumuaki - crown of the head; director; principal; headteacher
tumutumu - stump
tuna - eel
tunga - toothache
tūnga pahi - bus stop
tūnga waka - carpark
tungāne - brother, of a female
tungāne whakaangi - step-brother
tūngoungou - chrysalis, larva
tunu - to cook, roast
tunua - (pass) be roasted; be baked
tunutunu - afraid
tuohu - bow the head
tuopu - swap, trade
tūpapa - counter, bench
tūpāpaku - corpse, body
tūpare - shade eyes with hand
tūpātai - interrogative
tūpato - to be careful; caution, cautious
tupehu - angry
tūpeka - tobacco
tūpeke - jump
tūpono - to come upon accidentally, happen by chance
tūpou - pronoun
tupu - to grow, develop; a plant, shoot
(variant of tipu)
tupu ake - to grow up
tupua - demon; foreigner; object of terror; steal
tūpuhi - skinny
tupuna - ancestor; grandparent
tūpuna - grandparents (plural form of tupuna; variant of tīpuna)
tupuria - (pass) be grown
turaki - push down; overthrow
turakina - (pass) be pushed down; be overthrown
tūranga - stand, position, foundation
tūranga - stopping place (as in: tūranga pahi bus stop; tū + nominal suffix -ranga)
Tūranga-nui-a-Kiwa - Gisborne
tūrangawaewae - place to stand
tūraparapa - trampoline
ture - law, rule
tūrehu - fairy
Tūrei - Tuesday
tūrēiti - late
turi - deaf; knee; disobedient
tūria - be established (pass. of tū)
turituri - be quiet! noisy
Turituri! - Be quiet!
tūroa - of long standing
tūrohi - exhausted, tired
turori - stagger
tūroro - sick person, a patient
turotowaenga - midnight
tūru - chair, seat, stool
tūruhi - tourist
tūruki - crowded; to moult
turuturu - to make firm; leak; pole
tuta - back of the neck
tūtae - excrement
tūtaki - to meet; to close up, to block (v); meeting (n)
tūtakina - (pass) be met; be shut
tūtakitanga - meeting
tūtara - gossip; slander; near
tūtatakitanga - meeting (tūtataki + nominal suffix)
tute - nudge; push
tutetute - jostle
tūtira - file; row
tūtoro - dreamy
tutū - rowdy behaviour
tūtūā - person of low birth
tutuki - to be finished, completed, achieved
tūtukitanga - a crash; a collision
tūturi - kneel
tūturu - fixed, permanent, definite; to be true, real, original
tūwaewae - visitors
tūwaharoa - yawn
tūwāhi - locative noun
tuwha - distribute; spit, spit out
tuwhaina - spat out; spit out! (pass. of tuwha)
tūwhana - urge
tuwhara - floor mat
tuwhena rawa - overdose
tūwhera - to be open
tūwhitia - turned over, rolled over (pass of tūwhiti)
tūwiri - be afraid; terror; tremble; drill
ū - breast, udder (n); to be devoted (v)
ua - to rain; rain
uaki - to push open
uarapa - messy, untidy
uarua - raincoat
uaua - difficult (adj); muscle, vein, artery (n)
uha - female
uhi - to cover
uhia - to be covered (uhi + passive suffix -a)
uhunga - lament; funeral
ui - to ask, enquire
uia - (pass) be asked; be questioned
uira - lightning; to flash
uiui - to interview
uiuitanga - interview
ūkaipō - birthplace
ukauka - cash (uka-uka)
uku - to wash; soap; clay
ūkui - to wipe
ūkuia - wiped (pass. of ūkui)
uma - chest
umanga - occupation, business
umere - to shout (in wonder, in appreciation)
umeretia - shouted (pass. of umere)
umu - earth oven
unahi - scale of fish
ūnga - place of arrival
ungaunga - urge repeatedly
unu - take off
unuhia - (pass) be taken off; be drunk
upoko - head; verse of a song; paragraph; chapter
upoko mārō - stubborn
ure - penis
uri - descendant, offspring
Uropi - Europe
uru - join; enter; participate, go in; west
uru huarākau - orchard
urua - (pass) be joined; be entered; be participated in
uruhua - bruise
urunga - pillow
urupā - burial ground, cemetery
urupounamu - to question (v); a question (n)
uruuru - hasten; urge
uruwhenua - passport
uruwhetū - galaxy
uta - to load; shore; inland; the land; to load
utaina - (pass) be loaded
utanga - burden; freight; cargo
utauta - equipment, a load
utu - cost, price; to pay for
utu ā tau - salary
utu ā wiki - weekly pay; pocket money
utua - be revenged; be paid (pass of utu)
uwha - female animal
uwhi - to cover; covering; spread out; yam
uwhia - (pass) be covered; be spread out
uwhiuwhi - shower (rain)
wā - time, times
wā e heke mai nei - future
wā kāinga - home
wā moe - bedtime
wae - foot; leg; separate
waea - wire; phone
waea pūkoro - cellphone
waea whakaahua - fax
waeahia - rung (pass of waea)
waenga - middle, dividing line
waenganui - middle, centre, between
waenganui pō - midnight
waerehe - wireless radio
waero - hair of dog's tail; tail
waeroa - mosquito
waewae - foot, leg
waewae tapu - stranger, newcomer
waha - load, burden; to carry on the back; mouth
wahaina - carried on the back (pass. of waha)
wāhanga - chapter, episode
wāhanga piri - relative clause
wāhanga whāomoomo - intensive care unit
wahangū - dumb; quiet
wahapū - entrance to harbour; eloquent; mouth of river
waharoa - gateway
wahawaha - generous; approachable
wāheke - future tense [eg 'ka']
wāhi - part, portion; place
wāhi kia - let it be, leave
wāhi tapu - sacred place; burial ground
wāhi utu - checkout
wāhi whakangahau - amusement arcade
wāhia - (pass) be broken
wahie - driftwood
wāhine - women, wives (plural form of wahine)
wāhipa - past tense
wāhipa mau - past continuous [eg 'i te...']
wāhipa noa - past simple [eg 'i...']
wāhipa oti - past perfect [eg 'kua']
wāhipa oti tata - past perfect [eg 'kÄtahi anÅ... ka]
waho - out, outside, the outside
wai - water; who
wai māori - fresh water
waia - to become familiar with something
waiariki - hot spring
waiata - to sing (v); song (n)
waiatatia - sung (pass. of waiata)
waihanga - to make, build something
waiho - to let by, leave alone, ignore
waiho - to remain, rest; to leave behind
waihotia - leave! left alone (pass. of waiho)
waimaria - lucky
waimarie - lucky, fortunate; luck, good fortune
wāina - wine
waipiro - alcohol
waireka - sweet drink, soft drink
wairua - spirit
waitohu - credit
waiwaiā - beautiful
waka - vehicle (land, air and sea)
waka moana - canoe, boat
waka rererangi - airplane
wakarererangi - plane
wānanga - study, analyze; seminar, a place of learning
wānangahia - to be discussed
wani - scrape
wao - forest
warawara - desire, addiction
warawarawara - blah blah blah
warea - to be occupied with
wāreti - wallet
wareware - to forget; forgetful (trans)
waru - eight
waru tekau - eighty
warua - peel, scrape
wātaka - timetable
wātakirihi - watercress
wātea - to be clear, unoccupied, available, free of obstruction
wati - watch (timepiece)
wātū - present tense [eg 'kei te' and 'e... ana']
wāwāhi - break
wawara - desire, addiction
wawata - to long for, yearn for; dream
wawe - early, soon, quickly
wehe - to depart, leave; to separate, divide
wehenga - part, division, separation
(wehe + nominal suffix -nga)
weherua pō - midnight
wehi - terrible (adj); to be afraid (v)
weka - a native woodhen
Wenerei - Wednesday
weo - sound
wera - to burn; burnt; hot, heat
weriweri - ugly
wero - to challenge; formal challenge at a welcome ceremony
wetekia - be untied
wetewete - to untie, release, unravel
wetewetekina - to be untied, released, unraveled
whÄ - four
whaea - mother, aunt
whaea kēkē - aunt
whai - to follow, to chase; to have, to acquire
whāia - chased (pass of whai - note lengthening of first vowel)
whaihua - to have value (v), to be beneficial (s)
whaikōrero - oratory
whāinga - objective, aim, purpose (whai + nominal suffix -nga ,note first vowel lengthens)
whāiti - narrow, crowded together
whaiwāhi - participate
whakaā - to rest, catch one's breath
whakaae - to agree
whakaaetia - to be agreed
whakaahua - to take photos; photograph
whakaako - teach
whakaakona - be instructed (pass of whakaako)
whakaanga - turn towards, to cause to face in a particular direction
whakaari - play, drama, performance
whakaaro - to think; thought, idea
whakaarohia - thought (pass of whakaaro)
whakaarotia - [it was] thought (pass of whakaaro)
whakaata - mirror
whakaatu - to display, show, demonstrate
whakaaturanga - television programme (whakaatu + nominal suffix -ranga)
whakaaturia - shown, revealed, pointed out, demonstrated (pass of whakaatu)
whakaeke - to gather
whakahaere - to run something, manage, make something go
whakaharahara - to be extraordinary, marvellous
whakaharatau - to practise, acquire dexterity
whakahau - to encourage; to command
whakahaua - commanded (pass. of whakahau)
whakahāwea - to belittle, despise, show contempt for
whakaheke - to decrease, drop, lower
whakaheke ngaru - surfing
whakahēngia - to disagree, contradict, find fault with, condemn, object to, criticise; to cause to go astray, lead astray (pass of whakahē)
whakahiamo - sexy
whakahīhī - arrogant, proud
whakahipa - passed by
whakahirahira - great, magnificent, wonderful, very important
whakahoki - to return something, to reply
whakahokia - returned (whakahoki + passive suffix -a), returned
whakahua - pronounciation (n); pronounce (v)
whakahuatia - to be pronounced (pass. of whakahua)
whakaiho - to cut hair
whakaihu waka - champion; the first thing to cross the line
whakairia - to hang up, suspend, elevate
whakairingia - hang
whakairo - to carve, a carving
whakaiti - humility
whakaitihia - to be humbled; to belittle someone (pass)
whakakā - turn on
whakakaha - to strengthen; charge a cellphone
whakakāhore - to negate, deny, abolish
whakakakara - scented
whakakakorehanga - negation
whakakāngia - burned (pass. of whakakā)
whakakao - to gather
whakakaotia - gathered (pass. of whakakao)
whakakī - to fill something
whakakore - eliminate, delete, undo
whakamā - to be embarrassed, ashamed
whakamahana - heater
whakamahere - to plan
whakamahi - to put someone to work, to make someone work
whakamahia - used (pass of whakamahi)
whakamāori - to translate into Māori
whakamārama - to explain, illuminate, explain, clarify
whakamāramahia - to be illuminated, explained, clarified
whakamarokehia - dry!
whakamātau - to test, examine
whakamātautau - examination, test
whakamatea - killed (pass. of mate)
whakamau - to fix, fasten; to put on
whakamaua - be fixed; put on (pass of whakamauto)
whakamaumahara - to remember, recall; memorial
whakamīharo - amazing, astonishing
whakamihi - grateful
whakaminenga - assembled people
whakamōhio - to let know, inform, notify, tell
whakamōhiotia - to be informed
whakamomori - to commit a desperate act, act in desperation, commit suicide
whakamua - frontward, towards the front
whakamuri - towards the back
whakamutua - stop!
whakamutunga - ending, conclusion (whakamutu + nominal suffix -nga)
whakanau - to refuse
whakangā - to rest
whakangā/whakatā - to take a breath, relax, refresh
whakangahau - to entertain, to amuse
whakangaio - deceive; trick
whakangaoko - tickle
whakangaro - destroy
whakangau - hunt with dogs
whakangāwari - move quickly; ease, make less severe, soften
whakangote - mammal; suckle
whakangungu - to train, upskill
whakanoa - make free from tapu
whakanui - to enlarge; celebrate
whakaoho - to wake up
whakaohoa - woken up (whakaoho + -a; pass)
whakaoko - listen to
whakaomoomo - nurse or look after a child or invalid
whakaongaonga - excite
whakaora - to rescue, to cure
whakaora whawhati tata - first aid
whakaorangia - deliver
whakaoti - complete
whakaotia - completed (pass. of whakaoti)
whakaotinga - youngest child
whakapae - lying crosswise, horizontal
whakapāha - apologise
whakapāhō - to broadcast
whakapahoho - stationary, still
whakapai - to improve, to fix up, bless, cleaning
whakapaingia - prepared, set (pass. of whakapai)
whakapaipai - to decorate, adorn, tidy up, beautify
whakapaipaingia - decorated (pass. of whakapaipai)
whakapaipaitanga - decoration
whakapaipaitia - decorate! decorated (pass. of whakapaipai)
whakapaitia - tidied (pass of whakapai); tidy!
whakapākanga - youngest child
whakapakari - to strengthen
whakapākehā - translate into English
whakapākehātia - translated into English (pass. of whakapākehā)
whakapāngia - be stuck, stick!
whakapapa - genealogy
whakapaparanga - generations
whakapau - consume, use up, finish, exhaust; spend
whakapau kaha - use energy, work hard
whakapehapeha - to show off
whakapiata - shine, polish
whakapiatatia - polished (pass. of whakapiata)
whakapīoioi - to rock
whakapiri - to cling to, stick to
whakapiria - (pass) be fastened; be stuck on
whakapōauau - drug (narcotic)
whakapono - to believe; faith
whakapoururu - to frown
whakapuaki - to tell; disclose
whakapuare - to open
whakapukepuke - to build mounds, build stopbanks
whakapūmau - to make permanent, establish, confirm
whakaputa - to make something come out, to appear
whakaputu - savings
whakarae - exposed, prominent; green, raw
whakarākei - to decorate, adorn
whakaranumia - mixed together (pass. of whakaranu)
whakarapa - unlucky
whakarāpopoto - to summarise (v); summary (n)
whakararo - downwards
whakararu - to bother, disturb (v); a hindrance (n)
whakarato - serve
whakarau - capture; prisoner; multiply
whakaraupapa - neutral (not take sides)
whakarere - abandon, leave behind
whakarerekē - to change
whakarerekētia - changed (pass. of whakarerekē)
whakareretia - prepared (pass. of whakarere)
whakarihariha - disgusted; disgusting
whakarite - to compare; arrange, organise
whakaritea - arranged (pass of whakarite)
whakaritenga - appointment
whakaroa - delay; lengthen
whakaroatia - to be lengthened (pass. of whakaroa)
whakarongo - to listen
whakarongona - listened to (pass. of whakarongo)
whakarunga - upwards
whakaruruhau - shelter; protector
whakarurutanga - safety
whakatā - to rest (v); relaxed (adj)
whakataetae - contend, struggle, compete; contest; competition
whakataetae motokā - motor racing
whakataha - to put to one side, pass by
whakatakataka - move about; roll from side to side
whakatakere - underwater
whakataki - to conduct, lead, bring along, recite (a speech), go in search of
whakatakoto - to lay something down
whakatakotoria - (pass) be laid down; be placed
whakatangi - to play an instrument
whakatangitangi - music
whakatanuku - swallow
whakatata - to come closer to
whakatau - to decide
whakatau utu - estimate of cost, quote
whakatauākī - proverb
whakatauira - to give an example, illustrate
whakatāuki - proverb
whakataunga - an iwi referendum, decision
whakatauria - (pass) to be decided; to be tried; to be visited; to be welcomed
whakatautau - moan, wail
whakateka - disbelieve
whakatenetene - annoy; quarrel
whakatere - buoy up; steer; sail,, navigate, float, accelerate
whakatētahi - to a
whakatete - gnash the teeth
whakatika - to straighten, to correct, to fix
whakatikaina - to be corrected, fixed
whakatikatika - to rearrange, to put in order, to fix
whakatikatikanga rori - roadworks
whakatinana - to make manifest, implement, embody
whakatinanahia - to be made manifest, implemented, embodied
whakatipu - to raise, grow, develop
Whakatipua - Queenstown
whakatipuranga - generation
whakatō - to plant
whakatohetohe - unwilling
whakatoi - to give cheek (v), to be cheeky (s); cheeky
whakatōia - cheeky, mischievous
whakatōngā - to hide ones feelings, remain silent
whakatoreke - to dawdle, go slowly
whakatoro - push forward, thrust
Whakatū - Nelson; erect
whakatū - to stand something up
whakatū waka - to park a car
whakatūngia - stopped (pass)
whakatūpato - to warn, to caution
whakatupu - grow; bring up, nurture
whakatupuranga - generation
whakaturetia - enacted by law
whakatūria - erected (whakatū + passive suffix -ria)
whakatūtū - erect
whakatutuki - carry to completion
whakatūtūranga - demonstration
whakatuturi - to be obstinate; refuse to listen
whakatuwhera - to open
whakatūwheratanga - opening ceremony
whakatuwheratia - to open
whakaū - establish; support; confirm
whakauaua - strenuous; make (more) difficult
whakaupa - delay
whakauru - to enter, to join, to enrol
whakaute - care for; nurse
whakautu - to reply, to respond, answer
whakautua - (pass) be replied to; be responded to
whakawā - accuse; condemn; to judge; appraise
whakawaha - put load on back
whakawai - amuse; practise
whakawareware - deceive
whakawātea - make way for, clear space
whakawāwā - quarrel, wrangle
whakawehi - protection
whakaweti - threaten
whakaweto - turn off [a light]
whakawhānau - to give birth
whakawhanaunga - to relate to someone
whakawhanaungatanga - to build relationships
whakawhānui - to extend, broaden, expand.
whakawhetai - to give thanks
whakawhiti - to cross
whakawhiti kōrero - discuss; communicate
whakawhiti whakaaro - discuss; communicate
whakawhitia - cross over! crossed, changed (pass. of whakawhiti)
whakawhitinga - crossing
whakawhitiwhitinga kōrero - exchange of ideas
whakawhiu - afflict; oppress; punish
whakawhiwhi - give; to award
whakawiri - be anxious; tremble; twist; wring
whakawiriwiri - cruel; violent
whāki - to reveal, to disclose, to confess
whana - to kick
whanaia - kicked (pass. of whana)
whanake - cabbage tree; to spring; grow
whanaketanga - youth (the time of being young)
whānako - steal; theft; thief
whānāriki - sulphur
whānau - family; to be born, be born
whānau mai - to be born
whānau pani - close family of someone who has died
whanaunga - relative, relation (whānau + nominal suffix -nga - note the short first vowel)
whanaungatanga - relationship
whanga - to wait (v); harbour (n)
whāngai - to feed, to foster (v); fostered child (n)
whāngaia - (pass) be fed; be nourished
Whanganui-a-Tara - Wellington
whano - behave
whanokē - strange, weird
whanonga - behaviour
whānui - broad, wide
whaowhao - to carve
whara - to be injured
whārangi - page (n); spread flat (v)
wharau - temporary shed
whare - house, building
whare hākinakina - gym
whare haumanu - clinic
whare herehere - prison
whare horoi - ablution block
whare kai - dining hall
whare kairangi - palace
whare kanikani - nightclub
whare karakia - church
whare kawhe - cafe
whare kurī - kennel
whare moni - casino
whare motokā - garage
whare petipeti - casino
whare pī - beehive
whare pikitia - movie theatre
whare pītakataka - gymnasium
whare pukapuka - library
whare rēhia - leisure centre
whare rongoā - chemist
whare rūnanga - meeting house
whare taonga - museum
whare tapere - theatre
whare toi - art gallery
whare tunu parāoa - bakery
whare tūpuna - ancesteral house, meeting house
whare wānanga - traditional school of higher learning; university
whare whakairo - carved house
whare whakapakari - gym
wharekai - restaurant
wharekāwhe - coffee shop
wharekura - Māori-medium secondary school
wharenui - meeting house; hall
wharepaku - toilet
wharepora - house where weaving is done
wharepuni - sleeping-house
whāriki - mat, carpet, rug
whārite - scales (for weighing)
whārua - footprint; valley
whāruarua - concave
whata - elevated storage platform; cupboard
whata mātao - fridge
whāti - fudge
whatia - broken (pass. of whati)
whatīanga - elbow
whatitiri - thunder
whatitoka - doorway
whatiwhati - break off; break into pieces
whatu - to weave, knit; eye
whātui - to fold clothes
whātuia - folded
whatumanawa - seat of feelings, heart (as a figure of speech)
whatungarongaro - disappear
whāwhā - to fiddle with, to touch
whāwhai - hurry; impatient; urgent
whawhaki - to gather; pluck, pick (apples etc)
whāwhārua - a hollow; female ancestor
whawhati - break off; broken; chapped
whawhe - manipulation, meddling with
whawhe ira - genetic engineering
whea - where? (variant of hea)
wheako - experience
wheke - creak; octopus
wheketere - factory
whēkoi - move about
whena - a dwarf
whengei - quarrelsome; resentful
whengu - snort; blow (the nose)
whenguwhengu - snuffle
whenua - land
wheori - virus
wheoro - reverberate; rumble
whero - red
whēru - wipe the bottom; toilet paper
whetau - dodge; wriggle
whetewhete - whisper
whetū - star
whetūrangitia - to appear above the horizon (pass)
wheua - bone (usually of an animal)
whewheia - enemy
whio - blue duck; whistle
whiore - tail of an animal
whīra - field
whiri - plait; twist
whiria - (pass) be plaited
whirikoka - strength
whiringa toa - finals (in sport)
Whiringa-ā-nuku - October
Whiringa-ā-rangi - November
whiriwhiri - choose; decide; deliberate on
whiriwhiria - (pass) be chosen; be decided
whiro - evil
whītau - felt-tip pen
whiti - to cross; shine, rise
whitia - (pass) be crossed over; be jumped over; be recited; be shone on
whitiāhua - movie
whitinga o te rā - sunrise
whitireia - new moon
whito - a dwarf
whitu - seven
whiu - to be satisfied; to throw; to be filled
whiua - punished (whiu + passive suffix -a)
whiuwhiu - wag (tail)
whiwhi - to be in possession of; acquire, obtain, to get
whoroa - floor
whurū - flu (influenza)
whutupaoro - rugby
whutupōro - football, rugby
wīhara - whistle
wiki - week
wini - window
wīra - wheel
wiri - drill
wiriwiri - to tremble, to shake, to quiver
Wīwī - France