Location words

You have already learnt how to ask where something is using the question word hea?

Kei hea tō kāinga ināianei?	Where is your home now?
Kei te tiriti o Ōwheo.	On Ōwheo Street.
Kei hea a Eruera?	Where is Eruera?
Kei te whare pikitia.	At the picture theatre.

Here is a list of words to show location:

roto	inside
waho	outside
runga	on top
raro	underneath
mua	in front
muri	behind
tātahi	the beach
uta	the shore

More words will be added to your list later but for now here are some examples using the words above.

Kei hea a Eruera?	Where is Eruera?
Kei roto i te whare pikitia.	In the picture theatre.
Kei hea te ngeru?	Where is the cat?
Kei runga i te tuanui o te whare.	The cat is on the roof of the house.
Kei hea ngā tamariki?	Where are the children?
Kei mua i te kura.	In front of the school.

Here are some more examples using the location words. Notice that the word order changes and how i is used in front of the object of the sentence and that these location words and all place names follow kei directly, unlike nouns which need a word like te to precede them when following kei.

Kei mua ngā kaumātua i ngā tamariki.	The elders are in front of the children.
Kei waho ngā manuhiri i te kēti e tatari ana.	The visitors are waiting outside the gate.
Kei muri ō hū i te kūaha.	Your shoes are behind the door.
He kau kei roto i te māra.	There's a cow in the garden.
He pirihimana kei waho i te whare.	There's a policeman outside the house.

For further explanations and exercises see Te Kākano pp. 15-16 and Te Pukapuka Tātaki pp. 8-9.

Te Wāhanga 1

Whakautua ngā pātai ki ngā whakautu poto (Answer the question with short answers).

Hei tauira:

Wiremu asks Tarati: Kei hea te ngeru?
Tarati replies: Kei roto i te whare.