Te pukapuka a Pita, Pita's book.
Tenei taha oku, this side of me.
Taua whara o Hemi, that house of Hemi's.
§ 18. Of the Demonstratives, tena denotes that the thing spoken of is near, or in some way connected with the person spoken to; tera, that it is at a distance from or unconnected with either the speaker or the person spoken to; taua, that it has been already mentioned. Ia is generally used distributively for each, both it and the noun being repeated. Tenei, tena, and tera may also be used in the same way.
Examples.
Ia tangata ia tangata, each man.
Tenei rōpū tenei rōpū o ratou, each company of them.
Tera is often used in an emphatic way for the personal pronoun of the third person singular.
Tenei, tena, and tera often stand alone, the noun being understood, but taua is never used in this way.
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