i muri i

After an Event or Time

Level 4

Follow i muri i with the phrase identifying the reference.

How It Works

Form i muri i + reference phrase. With a meeting, meal or game, it locates the main event after that occasion. The phrase can precede or follow the main clause. Its initial i belongs to the relational phrase and does not independently make the main predicate past.

Compare i muri i te tina, “after lunch”, with i mua i te tina, “before lunch”. The containing clause supplies the action, its participants and temporal interpretation. Muri and the verb have no agreement endings for the participants' person or number.

Muri also denotes the rear or a position behind something. Reference and context distinguish time from space. The related expressions whai muri i and i muri iho are established alternatives, but their extra words are not compulsory in plain i muri i. Retain the marking appropriate to the reference phrase.

Examples (3)

  1. I muri i te hui, ka hoki mātou ki te kāinga.

    After the meeting, we returned home.

    A past narrative supplies the time interpretation; mātou excludes the addressee.

  2. I muri i te tina, ka pānui au.

    After lunch, I read.

    Lunch supplies the earlier reference in the intended past account.

  3. I okioki ngā kaitākaro i muri i te kēmu.

    The players rested after the game.

    The time phrase follows the main clause.

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i muri iLevel 4After an Event or Time

Learn This First

Place i muri i before a reference such as a meeting, lunch or game to order another event after it. The phrase can precede or follow the main clause, whose own particles and context supply time.