A review of building action verb sentences in the active voice.
Tense
marker
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Verb
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Agent
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'i' or
'ki'
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Object
Place a tens marker before the verb.
Marker
Tense
The action, experience or state:
I
Simple past
happened in the past
I te
Past continuous
was happening
Kua
Past perfect
'has' been completed (often recently)
E...ana
Present continuous
is happening
Kei te
Present
is happening
Ka
Further
will happen
This pattern works for Action verbs and Experience verbs. Stative verbs use a different pattern
The verb always stays the same, no matter the tense
Verbs do add a ‘tail’ when used in the passive voice, but we havn't looked at this yet.
Place a determiner before the agent and object nouns.
Most common nouns stay the same, no matter if they are singular or plural
There are many more determiners
Place the ‘personal’ article before a personal noun.
If the pronoun is the agent, nothing is needed. But if the pronoun is the object, place the ‘personal’ article before the pronoun
a
(except 'ahau')
Depends on the verb and on the context of the sentence
There must be one or the other, even if it performs no other function than to simply mark that the object comes next in the sentence
Learn the common 'experience' verbs, most of them use ‘ki’. There are only a couple of exceptions
To indicate motion toward the object, or attention / focus towards the object
To indicates that the action is done ‘with’ or ‘using’ the object
To mark the objects of most experience verbs
Very generally, to mark the indirect object of an intransitive verb
To mark the indirect object of a transitive verb
To mark the direct object of many transitive verbs. In other words, to mark the object when it simply gets 'verbed'.
To indicate motion away from the object
To mark the objects of a small subset of ‘experience’ verbs