And so on with all the other personal pronouns, with names of persons, or places, with nouns of locality ([§ 10]), and with all common nouns when they follow any definitive except he, by prefixing ta, or to, for the singular, and a, or o, for the plural.
Examples.
Toku whare, my house.
Enei hoiho, these horses.
He whare, a house, or houses.
Ta Hemi pukapuka, Hemi's book.
To tenei tangata kaainga, this man's dwellingplace.
§ 16. Peculiarities of he and te. (a) Never use he after a preposition, but substitute tetahi, thus:
He tangata, a man.
Ki tetahi tangata, to a man.