te. (a) Never use he after a preposition, but substitute tetahi, thus:

(b) When a common noun is used to denote a class, as the simple plural is often used in English, use te in the singular, and not he, thus:

§ 17. Possessive Prepositions following Definitives. (a) When a possessive follows he, always use either of the prepositions na, or no, never a, or o.

(b) When a possessive follows any other definitive, except he, always use either of the prepositions a, or o, never na, or no.

§ 18. Of the Demonstratives, tena denotes that the thing spoken of is near, or in some way connected with the person spoken to; tera, that it is at a distance from or unconnected with either the speaker or the person spoken to; taua, that it has been already mentioned. Ia is generally used distributively for each, both it and the noun being repeated. Tenei, tena, and tera may also be used in the same way.

Tera is often used in an emphatic way for the personal pronoun of the third person singular.

Tenei, tena, and tera often stand alone, the noun being understood, but taua is never used in this way.

§ 19. The Difference between a and o, which applies also to na, no, ma, mo, ta, to, is this; a is active, and o is passive, that is to say, a is used with reference to the agent, o with reference to the person or thing acted upon, thus:

They are also strictly correlatives, a having reference to the superior, and o to the inferior, thus:

Always use o in speaking of members of the body, clothes, houses, names, medicine, water for drinking, washing &c., but a in speaking of work, food &c.

Obs. To, thy, plural o, resembles tau rather than tou in the way in which it is used, though it often appears to be used indiscriminately for either.

IV. ADJECTIVES.

§ 20. Gender, Number &c. Adjectives have no distinctions of gender, number, or case, and always stand after the nouns which they qualify.

Note. There are some adjectives which in strict usage are only plural, and they always have the first syllable repeated.

§ 21. Degrees of Comparison are expressed by the adverbs atu, or ake for the comparative degree, and tino, or rawa, with the definite article te for the superlative degree. Tino or rawa, with the indefinite article he form an intense comparative.

Obs. Tino always stands before the adjective and rawa after it.

§ 22. When two or more adjectives are used to qualify the same noun, repeat the noun with each, or substitute mea for the noun after the first time.

V. NUMERALS.

I. CARDINAL NUMBERS.

§ 23. TABLE OF CARDINAL NUMBERS.

Hia? how many?