Wednesday, 22 May 2013

Week 2 Term 2: "tari" (office/department)


Anei te kupu o te wiki: Tari.
 
Here is the word of the week: Tari (Office/department)
 
You can use it as :
 
I am going to the Tari
Her Tari is tidy
Te Tari o Putaiao - The Science Department/Office.
 
Maori language week is Monday 1 – Sunday 7 July, week 9 this term and the theme this year is Ngā Ingoa Māori/Māori names. We are trying to use as many names of places around school as we can.
 
Feel free to kōrero to myself, Terri-Leigh, Stephen or Alisha about these
kupu hou/new words.  Maori is our 2nd official language since 1987 and its one of the things that is unique about NZ so I encourage you to use it.

Aidan

1 comment:

  1. Interesting fact, courtesy of He Kupu O Te Ra on Facebook:
    Did you know that Te Tari Taake (Inland Revenue) should actually be written as Te Tari Tāke (with a macron)? Legend has it they requested to have it changed because: Te = the, Tari = office, Tāke = tax, but also looks like the English word 'take'. People out there were calling it the "The take office". The double vowel rids them of the bullies.

    https://www.facebook.com/kupu.maori.nz

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