Exercise Six

Statives with other verbs

As already discussed, statives function in a different way from ordinary verbs, or universals. If what would normally be an ordinary verb or another stative follows a stative in the same sentence, it is treated as a noun and preceded by te.

Hei tauira:
Kua tata te paraoa te pau i a tātou. We’ve nearly used up all the bread.

I oti i ngā tamariki te whare te peita. The children finished painting the house.

For further explanations: Te Kākano pp. 99-100.

Tuhia ngā tūāhua me ngā tūmahi.
Identify the statives and the verbs and write them in the spaces provided.

Kei wareware i a koe ngā piko, ngā tohu pātai, ngā ira kati me ngā tohutō i ngā wāhi e tika ana.

Kua tata te miraka te pau i a Hone.

Kua oti i ngā tamariki te miraka te inu.

I pau i a Tāmati te panana te kai.

Kua oti i a ia ngā pukapuka te pānui.

I oti ngā rīwai te waru i te tangata rā.

Kua pau i ngā kōtiro ngā tiakarete te kai.

I pau i a Tirama ngā inu te inu.

Kua oti ngā kōrero i a Hēni te tuhituhi.

I tata ngā rare te pau i a Mārama.

I tata ngā ika te mau i a Hōri.