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terms which we shall be obliged to employ, and 2ndly, to make a few remarks on the general features of Ma

predicate is that which is so affirmed or denied of the subject. Thus, in the following

al particles as copulas. We believe that

sion is here necessary; viz., into complex and incomplex. An incomplex proposition is t

subject or predicate; e. g., I mate a Hone ki reira. Ki reira, here, qualifies the predicate mate. He tokomaha nga P

, is "I ora ai tatou, he aroha no te Atua," we having been s

for your having built the house? Here, we conceive, ko tou utu m

ander is generally unequal to a train of consecutive thought, so also is his language inadequate to exhibit with accuracy the various processes of the civilized intellect, such as comparing, abstracting, &c.,

d copulation. The want of a verb substantive, which is so useful as a copula in other languag

ion. So also will Maori, when it wishes to express the dependence of two or more ideas on each other, place them in close connexion, as distinct existences, and leave the hearer to deduce their intended relations. From hence it may, a priori, be collected. 1st. That Maori inclines to the substantive form. 2ndly, That it will have a peculiar tendency to the indicative mode of statement. 3rdly. That it delights in short sentences

however, of such importance in the investigation of some of the difficult points of Mao

a nohinohi, pour me out some, let it be little, (i. e., pour me out a little); e rite tahi ana ia kia koe, te ahua, he is like you, (I mean,) the countenance; no reira a Ngatihau i tino mau ai, te karakia ai, that was the cause why Ngatihau were quite established, (I mean,) the not adopting Christianity. I riri au kia ia, kihai nei i whakaaro, I was angry with him, (I mean,) he did not exercise thought in that matter.

cle, the pronoun, the preposition, the adverb, and the verbal particles. Instances of ellipsis he will find in almost every

nd as, moreover, a main business of syntax consists in the adjusting of their sever

qua id, quod dictum est, e vestigio cor