te ... -tanga o

Participants in an Event Noun

Level 5

Read the event noun and its o phrase together.

How It Works

Build an event phrase with te, an established event noun, and o followed by a participant. The catalog heading also covers related nominal endings: taenga and mutunga belong to this broader topic without ending in -tanga.

In an arrival phrase, the named participant arrives. In a completion phrase, the named activity ends. In te patunga o ... e ..., the o phrase identifies the affected participant and the e phrase identifies the actor. Neither the event noun nor o changes to agree with participant number.

Compare te patunga o te namu e Mere with te patunga a Mere i te namu. Both name Mere's killing of the sandfly, while organizing the participants differently. The o/e pattern expresses an affected-participant relation; it does not make every o phrase an object or every nominalization a passive.

Examples (3)

  1. te taenga mai o ngā kuia

    the elderly women's arrival

    Noun-phrase fragment: the women are the arriving participants.

  2. te mutunga o te kēmu

    the end of the game

    Noun-phrase fragment: the game is what ends.

  3. te patunga o te namu e Mere

    Mere's killing of the sandfly

    Noun-phrase fragment: the sandfly is affected; Mere is the actor.

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te ... -tanga oLevel 5Participants in an Event Noun

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Interpret o through the event noun: the women arrive, the game ends, and the sandfly is affected in the o/e action pattern. These relations do not give every o phrase one universal participant role.