āku / ōku
My Plural Possessions
Āku and ōku refer to my plural possessions.
How It Works
Compare tāku pene, my pen, and āku pene, my pens. Compare tōku whare, my house, and ōku whare, my houses.
Neutral aku also occurs before a noun and leaves the category unmarked. Keep the long vowel in the marked forms. The noun normally does not gain a plural ending, although lexical plurals still apply.
Examples (3)
- Kei konei āku pene.
My pens are here.
- He whero ōku whare.
My houses are red.
- Kei te kura ōku hoa.
My friends are at school.
How It Connects
Learn This First
Change the number of possessed items while keeping the possessor as the speaker and retaining a/o classification. Introduce neutral aku before a noun and preserve lexical plurals where the noun requires them.
- tāku / tōku / takuMy and Possessive Categories
The singular first-person possessives supply the explicit contrasts tāku pene versus āku pene and tōku whare versus ōku whare.
Level 1 - ngā + nounThe Plural Article
Plural article teaching establishes that plurality can be expressed before an unchanged noun base, supporting the same number reading in these possessive phrases.
Level 1
Related Patterns
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Patterns that build on this one.
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