E tino aroha ana ahau ki a koe - What is the English translation? English translators help English translators with the translation of E tino aroha ana ahau ki a koe

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257 months ago

katrina clive (a guest user) asked this question:

Language pair:	Māori > English
Subject:	Other
Level of diffculty:	Easy / medium
Word or term in question:	E tino aroha ana ahau ki a koe
Context:	I have no idea ...... But I wo
Keywords:	-

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257 months ago

wrote:

I love you very much

My comment:

In most Polynesian languages the verbal phrase comes first; here it is E tino aroha ana. E...ana is the aspact i.e. it is the same as be .....Vb+ing. aroha is the lexical verb (= love) tino indicates the superlative degree (very). Ahau is the subjects which comes just after the vebal phrase (= I) and ki a koe is the complement: ki connects the verb with the object koe (= you) preceded by a.

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