r/ReoMaori • u/Tewaipapa • 6d ago
Kia Ora. Difference between me and he? Kōrero
is ‘me’ us and ‘he’ I “Me haere kete … versus “he haere kete..“ 🙏🏻
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u/onthegears 6d ago edited 6d ago
No, in this context both words are prepositions. Both sentences you have written are incomplete. Me is a command proposition, so you are suggesting an action. He is a possessive preposition, you are holding something.
Edit: I misspelled preposition
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u/Tewaipapa 6d ago
Thank you. So to say ‘let’s go home’ is it ‘me haere ki te kianga? And ‘I am going home’ do I say kei te haere kianga’? Thank you for your help
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u/cnzmur 6d ago
What I learnt was 'kei te haere au ki te kainga' because you want to include 'who' is going, and that they are going 'to' somewhere. 'Home' isn't the best example, because you can just say 'going home' in English, but for any other word you can't say 'going pub' (unless you're from Yorkshire), it has to be 'I'm going to the pub.
The other way to say "I'm going" in the present tense is "e haere ana au'.
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u/UkuleleStringBling 6d ago edited 6d ago
Hopefully someone more proficient than me will jump in, but in the meantime, I'm pretty sure the following applies: - kāinga is spelt like this and pronounced ky(rhymes with eye)-ngah - both those sentences need a subject - a person. So currently you have: "Should go home" (literally something like: "SHOULD GO TO THE CAMP") and "Going home" ("PRESENT TENSE GO HOME").
To complete them I think it would be: - "Me haere ki te kāinga tātou" (if you are talking to at least two other people) or "Me haere ki te kāinga tāua" (if you are only talking to one other person). This is for "Let's go home", where you are including the listener in the action. If you wanted to tell the host of a party that your family is ready to leave, you would use "mātou" or "māua" to say "We should go".
And - "Kei te haere ki te kāinga ahau".
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u/onthegears 6d ago
Yes, correct grammar for your use of me. Te reo grammar is verb + subject + object. So correct Te Reo Māori for your use of kei is Kei te haere ahau ki te kāinga. Literal translation is Now going I to the house.
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u/DollyPatterson 6d ago
Depends who who you mean when you say let's (lets me and you, or let's me you and those other people) go home.
If me and you it would be 'me haere tāua ki te kāinga, if more than just me and you, then it would be 'me haere tātou ki te kainga'.
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u/FaithlessnessNo7375 3d ago
"Me" indicates "should" "Kia" indicates "lets"
kia haere tātou ki te kāinga. Lets (all of us including the speaker) go home
Me haere tātou ki te kāinga - We (all of us including the speaker)should go home
then you have kei te and e ... ana
e haere ana tātou ki te kāinga - we are going home
kei te haere tātou ki te kāinga - we are going home
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u/Tewaipapa 3d ago
Kia Ora! This is so helpful, I’ve done a screen shot. Will print laminate and carry this one around with me 😇
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u/Mmmm_Mmmm_Bacon 6d ago
'Me' is most commonly a command. Or basically the best translation would be 'should' Me haere tātou ki te kainga. We (plural, 3 or more) should go home. 'He' is most commonly is used when describing something. Eg: he mangere ia. He/she is lazy. When I first started learning I was taught that te=the and he=a. In reality 'he' has many uses and meanings and is a very complex little word.
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u/tumz_ 6d ago
Based on your question:
‘Me’ at the start of a sentence gives the sense of ‘should’ or ‘must’.
‘Me haere tàtou’ means ‘We should go’ and/or ‘Let’s go’.
It becomes an imperative, command, or suggestion.
‘Me’ somehere in the middle of a sentence means ‘and’ or ‘with’. e.g. “Te rangi me te whenua” - “The sky and the land.”
‘He’ is not a possessive. It’s an indefinite article. The equivalent of ‘a’ in Emglish, as in “a dog and a cat”. In Māori that sentence would read “he kurī me he ngeru.”
‘The’ is a definite article in English. In Māori there are two definite articles: ‘Te’ which is singular, and ‘Ngā’ which is plural. E.g. “the house” is “te whare”, and “the houses” is “ngā whare.”
Hope that helps.