He tangata Atua, ka puta mai ki a ia te kai, ka whiua te tahi ki tahaki, hei whakahere i tona Atua, mana ka pau i te kuri ranei, mana ka pau i te poaka ranei.
In the following sentence, for example, E muri ka puta mai nga kuri ka puhia, henceforward if dogs come here they will be shot, e is wrongly used; puhia being in the third person.
Following is a connected view of some of the principal means by which the defect of the substantive verb is supplied or implied, in Maori: he kuri tenei this is a dog.
I konei te kuri e kai ana, mei te huruhuru, a dog has been eating a fowl here, as we may judge from the feathers.
A more fiercely contested battle, perhaps, was never fought than that on Motiti, in which the Ngati Kuriwere destroyed.
Twice their own number had the Ngati Kuri slain; and then Tiki Whenua, still living, saw around him his dead and dying tribe.
It was a leave-taking of his favourite warrior, for the Ngati Kuri were fated to die to a man on the next land they trod.
They thought to make the name ofKuri strike against the skies; but in the morning the sea is covered with war canoes.
It was a leave-taking of his favourite warrior; for the Ngati Kuriwere fated to die to a man on the next land they trod.
He then rode away to the camp, and having returned the horse to the Indarpuri Kuri he began to prepare the evening meal, which was ready by the time his four brothers arrived.
The Indarpuri Kurimade answer, "I am not deceiving you.
Lelha now began to eat his third parcel of roasted grain, and just as he had finished it he saw another Indarpuri Sadom with an Indarpuri Kuri rider descend from the North, and alight in the garden.
It was a large and beautiful bazaar, and an Indarpuri Kurihad a stall it.
When he had returned the horse to the Indarpuri Kuri he resumed his office of cook, and had supper ready by the time his brothers returned.
He begged the Indarpuri Kuri to give him a horse that would do the distance there and back seven times within the hour, and at the end would fall down dead, and also to have another horse ready for him to mount.
Lelha hurried to the further end of the garden, and taking the hair of the first Indarpuri Kuri in his hand said, "Oh!
This Indarpuri Kuri had given out, that whoever would go and come twelve kos seven times within an hour should be her husband.
This Indarpuri Kuri said to him, "Will you give up the hiras and manis, or will you fight?
The Indarpuri Kuri whom Lelha had robbed of her hira now awoke, and at once missed her precious jewel.
At cockcrow, Lelha, having eaten the last grain of his fourth parcel, looked up and beheld an Indarpuri Sadom with an Indarpuri Kuri rider descend into the garden from the North.
By the time Lelha had eaten all the roasted grain from another corner of his plaid, another Indarpuri Sadom with his Indarpuri Kuri rider descended from the West.
Then he desired the Indarpuri Kuri to give him a horse, and having mounted, he followed his brothers, and on coming near saluted them as before, but again they failed to recognize him.
The Indarpuri Kuri then said, "When you desire anything, take that lock of hair into your hand, and say, Oh!
After their departure Lelha gathered everything together, and hid them as before, and then called upon Indarpuri Kuri for a horse.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "kuri" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
