More on statives

Kua hinga te tangata matakerepō
More on statives

Presently we have been using the term ‘stative’ for a group of words that describe a condition or state. However, there is a small group of statives that do not function in all the ways that the rest do. Below are some of the words from that smaller group.

mahue	be left behind
mākona	be satisfied (of appetite)
mānu	be floating
mau	be caught, fixed, held fast
mutu	be ended, finished
ngaro	be missing, lost, out of sight, disappeared
oti	be completed, finished
pau	be consumed, exhausted, used up
riro	be take, gone, obtained
tū	be, wounded
whara	be struck, injured, hit accidentally

These statives are only used as verbs, unless their form is changed, e.g. by adding an ending to them as was explained in chapter 5.

For further explanations and examples see Te Pihinga pp. 107-108.

Whakakīa te āputa o ngā rerenga kōrero Māori ki te kupu e tika ana.
Fill in the gap in the Māori sentence with the appropriate word.