Kete 3 - Kupu

Question 1

Tae

Verb

Answer 1

To arrive, achieve, extend to

Question 2

Hukapapa

Answer 2

Snow on the ground / frost / ice

Question 3

Wāhanga

Answer 3

Session / chapter / season / division / section

Question 4

Wharekai

Answer 4

Dining hall / cafe / restaurant

Question 5

Inanahi

Answer 5

Yesterday

Question 6

Āpōpō

Answer 6

Tomorrow

Question 7

Kata

Verb

Answer 7

To laugh/ to chirp / to twitter

Question 8

Whakahoki

Answer 8

Return / put back / reply

Question 9

Tūreiti

Answer 9

To be late / too late / lateness

Question 10

Kupu mino

Answer 10

Borrowed word / loanword

Question 11

Arohaina mai

Verb

Answer 11

Sorry / Feel compassion for me / Empathize for me

This is aroha + ina (a passive ending). Could put another person instead of mai

Question 12

Pakihiwi

Answer 12

Shoulder

Question 13

Ne ra?

Answer 13

Isn’t it? Is it not? Are you sure?

Question 14

Koinā

Answer 14

It is that / that’s / those are

Interjection

Question 15

Rākaunui

Answer 15

Full moon

Also full moon on the fifteenth night; marks the start of the month for some iwi. A good day for fishing and planting.

Question 16

Whiro

Answer 16

Mercury /
Atua of things associated with death, evil, darkness

Also: moon on the first night of the lunar month; the sixteenth night of the lunar month for some iwi. Good for eeling, but not planting.