Exercise Eleven
Using tino
Tino is used to emphasise something and can mean ‘very’, ‘quite’, ‘importance’, ‘value’, ‘significance’, ‘essence’, ‘main’ and ‘important’. However, the most common use of tino is to mean ‘very’. When using the word tino to emphasise something it precedes the adjective or noun, eg. he tino pai tēnei or kei te tino harikoa ahau.
Whakamāoritia ngā kōrero e whai ake nei.
Kei wareware ki te whakamahi i ngā piko, ngā tohu pātai, ngā kopi me ngā tohutō i ngā wāhi e tika ana.
The dog is very dirty.
Māui is very mischievous.
The bag is really heavy.
I am very hungry.
Te Rauparaha is very well known.
The Waikato river is very long.
Kūmara is very sweet.
The month of July is really cold.
Your daughter is very beautiful.
The tōtara tree is very big.