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?

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

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

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

E hia ngā panana?
How many bananas?

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

Kotahi tonu.
Just the one.

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

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

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

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

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

Tokoiwa pea.
About nine (people).

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

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

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?

Tokohia ngā tāmgata?
How many people are there?

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

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

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

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

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

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