kei hea

Asking Where Something Is

Level 1

Kei hea asks about a present location.

How It Works

Kei hea a Mere? asks where Mere is now. A response such as Kei te kura a Mere preserves the present location frame.

Use other frames when asking where someone was, where they are going or where they come from. The question is not a general replacement for every English use of where.

Examples (3)

  1. Kei hea a Mere?

    Where is Mere?

  2. Kei hea tōku pukapuka?

    Where is my book?

  3. Kei hea ngā tamariki?

    Where are the children?

How It Connects

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kei heaLevel 1Asking Where Something Is

Learn This First

Replace the known present location with hea and retain the subject after the question phrase. The resulting question requests current whereabouts, leaving past location, destination and origin to distinct frames.

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