Ko te tangata tera e mohio ana ki te whakairo rakau, that is the man who understands carving wood.
Ko nga tangata enei nana i tahu te ngahere, these are the men who set the forest on fire.
When using ordinals as adjectives in immediate connexion with nouns prefix tua- to the simple numeral from one to nine, thus: Te tangata tuatahi, the first man.
Te tangata i hoatu nei e ahau ki a ia te pukapuka, the man to whom I gave the book.
Ko Hemi te tangata nana i patu taku witi, the man who threshed my wheat was Hemi.
Te tangata he pukapuka tana, whoever has a book (the man who &c.
He tangata tenei no Akarana, this is a man from Auckland.
Ka hinga ahau i te wakatakariri ki te tangata nei, I fall with anger at the fellow here.
Tarapipipi's: kei nga Pakeha ta matou whakaaro, ta nga tangata Maori, with the Europeans are the sentiments of us, of the New Zealanders.
Ko te aroha e whakahauhau ana i te tangata hei mahi; it should be, ki te mahi.
E kore ia e poka ke i tana i mea; it should be, i mea ai; te tangata i he ai, the man who had committed the offence.
Ko te tangata kua tukua mai, (before you send the pigs) let the messenger be sent here.
Ko te tangata tenei, nana nga kakano, this is the man, his are the seeds; (i.
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.
Ko te tangata tenei i patua e Hone, this is the man that was beaten by John.
Mehemea ko au i tata i taku tungane i te takiwa i mate ai, ka kainga au i te karu o te tangata nana i whakamatea Te Waka!
One of these sacred wands represents the invalid, one the tribe to which he belongs, and one the mischief-working wizard (te tangata nana te makutu).
The weakertangata whenua[5] were subdued and absorbed.
Hotu-nui, who was one of the principal chiefs of the canoe, is said to have taken as his wife a daughter of one of the tangata whenua, and was apparently living in the same village and on terms of perfect friendship with her people.
Below the tulafales ranked the faleupolu or House of Upolu, and the tangata nuu or Men of the Land.
Human sacrifices are called tangata taboo; and when any thing is forbidden to be eat, or made use of, they say, that is taboo.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tangata" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
