Ngā mihi o te tau hou.
Did I get that right?
You sure did.
Ngā mihi o te tau hou ki a koe.
To you too, Happy New Year.
Mihi being the greeting, tau being the year, and hou putting on the end there means the
new.
It’s the sound hou, instead of hau, which lots of people say.
And the difference is h-o-u, h-a-u.
So you have to change the way your mouth is to get that hou out.
If you were saying hau, you’d be saying wind.
You know, greetings of the windy year.
Let’s not have a windy year.
But we’re going to have a cup of tea now.
He kapū tī?
Yeah, so I thought we could start really simple.
This is good way of learning te reo.
If you’ve got a buddy that wants to help learn, and learn with you, you can invite
them over for a cup of tea.
You can set up your cups and your saucers and whatever, and you start with,
He kapū tī mōu?
Would you like a cup of tea?
A cup of tea for you.
Mōu being for you.
And I would respond Āe.
Or kāo.
If you don’t want one.
But you’d say āe koa.
Yes please, I will have a cup of tea.
Then you would get your cup, kapū with a long stress on the end.
And your tī.
Lots of these words here are just transliterations.
We can look at the teaspoon right?
Tīpune.
Tīpune, as being the teaspoon.
We were having this discussion wondering why they might be transliterations and not have
their own words or names, and it’s probably because the stirring stick or whatever it
was back in the day wasn’t a teaspoon.
It was something that they were mixing something else with.
So there will be a word for that and I can’t think right now exactly what that is.
But a teaspoon was introduced obviously when the English came with their kapū tī.
And if I didn’t want a cup of tea and I wanted coffee?
You’d say kawhe koa.
And then there is actually really flash names for flat white and long black and all those
things, but we’re just having a basic kawhe today.
I might say to you, he huka mōu?
Would you like some sugar?
And you would say, āe e rua, ko tahi te tīpune.
So, two spoons, or one spoon for me.
So when you start to string these along, you and your friend, can have a somewhat conversation
just using these words.
So, kapū for cup.
Tī for tea.
Kawhe for coffee.
What’s the hot chocolate one there.
Tiakarete.
So it’s just really chocolate.
And huka for sugar, tīpune for teaspoon.
Sometimes you would have a biscuit with your cup of tea.
So you’d put down your cup of tea and say, ‘Anei tō kapū tī, here is your cup of tea.
And then you would have your plate of biscuits.
And what would you say if I was to say, he kapū tī mōu?
Would you like a cup of tea?
If you can take the kapū tī bit out and put in…
So if I would ask you if you wanted a biscuit, I would say, he pihikete mōu?
That’s exactly right, and I’d say āe tēnā ko, e rua nga pihikete mōku koa.
I’ll have two, that’s beautiful, thank you.
So that’s a really good phrase.
He kapū tī mōu, he pihikete mōu?
Would you like a cup of tea, would you like a biscuit?
And the respondent would say āe koa, thank you, I’ll have that.
And they’ll say e rua nga pihikete, two biscuits please.
And then I’d take them off the plate and put them on to my pureti (plate).
You might even have my favourite which is pihikete tiakarete.
Āe tika tāu! (You’re quite right)
And you so you might say to somebody who comes into your house, you’d say, haere mai ki te noho.
E noho, and you would show them where their seat is, so that’s just the getting in to
sit down.
We’ve talked about the mōu, so that’s for you, for you.
And the mōku is for me.
So, when I said to you, he kapū tī mōu, and you said, āe he kapū tī mōku.
For me, thank you very much.
So that’s the difference between the you and the me.
And that’s the homai koa.
Pass me.
Homai koa he pihikete tiakarete? Pass me the chocolate biscuit.
Or how would you say pass me the sugar?
I would say homai koa huka.
So you need to have the joiner word.
So homai koa te huka.
The sugar.