OF AFFIRMATION.
Maori is very well supplied with affirmative and negative particles, all of which differ by very slight shades of meaning from each other, and the uses of which will be best learned by practice.
- Ae,[23] yes.
- Ina, idem.
- Aana, idem.
- Koia, idem.
- Ae ra, idem.
- Ae ra hoki, yes truly, &c.
- Ae ra pea, idem.
- Koia ha hoki, idem.
- Ae ko, yes (you are correct).
- Koia pea, yes, perhaps; (sometimes used ironically for a negative) yes indeed!