pēhea

Asking How

Level 1

Pēhea asks about condition or manner within a suitable frame.

How It Works

Kei te pēhea koe? asks how you are. Kei te pēhea te rangi? asks about the weather’s condition. These are complete predicates built around the question base.

For manner, choose the tense and action frame appropriate to the event. Do not insert pēhea into English word order. The opening particle and the rest of the clause determine what kind of answer is requested.

Examples (3)

  1. Kei te pēhea koe?

    How are you?

  2. Kei te pēhea te rangi?

    What is the weather like?

  3. Ka pēhea tāua?

    What will you and I do; what will happen to us?

How It Connects

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Learn This First

Introduce pēhea as a question base for condition or manner within an appropriate predicate. Begin with the published condition questions and use the ka example to show that the full frame determines the situation being questioned.

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Patterns that build on this one.