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The following words are used to tell the time:
taima: time
karaka: clock or hour
hāora: hour
meneti or meniti: minute
pāhi or pāhitanga: past
hāwhe: half
koata: quarter
i: past
ki: to
For example:
E rua meneti mai i te whā karaka.
Two minutes past four.
Rua tekau meneti mai i te ono karaka.
Twenty minutes past six o'clock.
Haurua mai i te rua.
Half past two.Hei te tekau mā rua karaka.
See you at twelve o'clock.Hauwhā mai i te rua.
Quarter past two.Ka whakaweto te koroua i ngā rama ā te 10 karaka.
The old man will turn the lights off at 10 o'clock.Hei te waru karaka.
See you at eight o'clock.Toru karaka te wā.
The time is 2 o'clock.I te tekau karaka.
At ten o'clock.Ko te tekau mā tahi karaka.
It is eleven o'clock.Hei te rua karaka.
See you at two o'clock.Ka tūtaki tātou ki te pāmu ā te 3 karaka.
We will meet at the farm at 3 o'clock.Ko te rima karaka i te ahiahi.
5 o'clock in the afternoon.Haurua mai i te ono karaka.
Half past 6.Maranga mai ai au ia rā, ia rā i te whitu karaka.
I always get up every day at seven o'clock.Hei te whā karaka.
See you at four o'clock.Hauwhā ki te toru.
Quarter to 3.Haurua mai i te iwa karaka.
Half past nine.Ko te whitu karaka i te ata.
7 o'clock in the morning.Hei te ono karaka.
See you at six o'clock.Hei te tahi karaka.
See you at one o'clock.I te whitu karaka i te ahiahi, ka mate ia.
At seven o'clock in the evening, he died.E rima meneti e toe ana.
There are five minutes remaining.I taraiwa māua ko taku hoa ki te whare wānanga i te waru karaka.
Me and my friend drove to uni at 8 o'clock.Mā runga i te tereina o te ono karaka.
On the six o'clock train.Nō te iwa karaka rawa, ka tīmata te purei kāri.
Finally, at nine o'clock, the card games started.Ka taea au te whakaoho e koe ā te whitu karaka?
Are you able to wake me at 7 o'clock?Te hui a te rua karaka, hei te whare wānanga.
The 2 o'clock meeting will be at the university.Hei te toru karaka.
See you at three o'clock.Ā te tekau karaka tīmata ai te karakia.
The service starts at ten o'clock.E rua tekau meneti ngā tītī e tunua ana i roto it te umu.
The muttonbirds were roasted in the hot oven for twenty minutes.Oho ai au i te wari karaka i te ata.
I usually wake up at eight o'clock in the morning.Hei te tekau mā tahi karaka.
See you at eleven o'clock.Hei te rima karaka.
See you at five o'clock.A te waru karaka ka haere tātou ki te marae.
We will go the marae at 8 o'clock.I ngā ata katoa e ara ana is i te ono karaka.
He gets up at six o'clock every morning.Ka wehe tātou ā te 2 karaka ā tēnei ahiahi.
We (3 + incl) will leave at 2 o'clock this afternoon.Hāwhe pahi i te iwa karaka.
Half past 9.Hauwhā ki te rua karaka.
Quarter to two.Hei te whitu karaka.
See you at seven o'clock.I te ono karaka, kua tae atu rātou ki Ōmihi.
By six o'clock they had got to Ōmihi.E rua meneti mai i te whā karaka.
Two minutes past four.Ka kai tātou ā te whitu karaka.
We'll eat at seven o'clock.Āe, i te rima karaka.
Yes, at 5 o'clock.Kua whakaritea, me tae rātou ki te mira o Kawerau i te iwa karaka.
It was arranged that they should arrive at the Kawearau mill at nine o'clock.Nō te whā karaka i te ahiahi rātou i tīmata ai.
It was four o'clock in the afternoon when they started.I te whitu karaka, kua haere mai ia.
He will have left at seven o'clock.