Māori Grammar

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How many pens are there?

e hia?

To ask "how many?" we use tokohia? for people and e hia? for things.

Tokohia ngā tangata i reira?
How many people were there?

Tokohia ō kaimahi?
How many people do you work with?

E hia āu pene e hoa?
How many pens have you got mate?

E hia ngā motokā i te huarahi?
How many cars are on the road?

Kia ora Mia, tokohia kei tō whānau?
Hey Mia, how many in your family?

Tokohia ngā tamariki a ō kaumātua?
How many children do your grandparents have?

Tokohia kē mai nei ngā tāngata e tae mai ana mō te kai!
What a lot of people are arriving for the food!

E hia ngā pune me ngā pāoka?
How many spoons and forks are there?

Tokoiwa pea.
About nine (people).

E hia ngā kaiako o te kura nei?
How many teachers are in this school?

Tokohia kē mai nei...
What a lot of people...

E hia ngā rīwai i te māra?
How many potatoes are in the garden?

Tokohia i tae mai ki te whakarongo ki te pirimia?
How many people are coming to hear the Prime Minister?

Tokohia pea ā mātou ākonga.
We have about nine students.

E hia ngā whare i te tāone?
How many houses are in the town?

Tokohia ngā tāmgata?
How many people are there?

E ono ngā pune, e rima ngā pāoka.
Six spoons and five forks.

E hia ngā tamariki i te kura?
How many children are at the school?

Kotahi tonu.
Just the one.

E hia ngā tūru kei te tēpu?
How many chairs are at the table?

E hia ngā manu i te wao nui?
How many birds are in the wilderness?

Tokohia ngā tangata e haere mai?
How many people are coming?

E hia ngā wharekura o te tāone nei?
How many schools are in this town?

E hia ngā whakaahua i te wharetaonga?
How many pictures are in the museum?

E hia ngā panana?
How many bananas?

Ka hia kiromita ki Mōhaka?
How many kilometers to Mōhaka?

Tekau mā waru ngā pereti, a rua tekau mā tahi ā tātou kapu.
There are eighteen plates and we have twenty-one cups.

E hia ngā pene? Kia hia ngā huka? Tokohia ngā tangata?
How many pens? How many sugars would you like? How many people?