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Lesson 4 of 10
Counting to ten in Maori
One to ten, for prices, platforms, rooms and how many beers. Play the ten Maori words against the clock, with a note on how locals really use each one after every answer. All ten are written out below.
All 10 Maori phrases in this lesson
- TahiTA-hee
- One
- RuaROO-a
- Two
- ToruTOR-roo
- Three
- WhāFAH
- Four
- RimaREE-ma
- Five
- OnoOR-nor
- Six
- WhituFEE-too
- Seven
- WaruWA-roo
- Eight
- IwaEE-wa
- Nine
- TekauTEH-ko
- Ten
Tahi is used when counting. When you mean one of something, it becomes kotahi, as in kotahi te pia.
Counting runs tahi, rua, toru, whā, rima. For people there is a special form: tokorua, two people.
Tokotoru is three people, as in a table for three.
Eleven is tekau mā tahi, ten and one, and twenty is rua tekau, two tens.