Round 108

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Arief Wibowo
Arief Wibowo Te Reo (Māori) round:
Ko ia te tangata i haere mai i Aotearoa
Marius Vincenzii Dennischter
Marius Vincenzii Dennischter Haere mai i Aotearoa = Welcome to New Zealand.
Arief Wibowo
Arief Wibowo But in this case, haere mai doesn't exactly mean welcome. Think of it's root meaning :)
Arief Wibowo
Arief Wibowo Victor Wåhlstrand Skärström
(yes, someone - me - really called for you this time)
Victor Wåhlstrand Skärström
Victor Wåhlstrand Skärström Oh maori! I'll take a look later!
Maria Weidner
Maria Weidner Ah, I've no time at the moment! I hope it won't be solved before I'll join in! :)
Malin Elisabeth Nilsson
Malin Elisabeth Nilsson Greetings from New Zealand? I actually have no clue. Im just guessing :D
Maria Weidner
Maria Weidner hmm.. let's see : ko ia = he? te tangata = the man? i haere = came?
Дайте Нефть Из Баку
Дайте Нефть Из Баку *bookmarking thread for the future.*
Arief Wibowo
Arief Wibowo Great one, Maria Weidner! First two guesses correct :)

Edit: "i haere" doesn't mean came
Arief Wibowo
Arief Wibowo Malin Elisabeth Nilsson, "greetings" isn't correct, haere mai's literal meaning (according to my dictionary -- I am still learning this language :P ) is related to welcome, but not exactly that
Maria Weidner
Maria Weidner Haere mai - come here
Maria Weidner
Maria Weidner I yet have to get sorted out the “i“. So it is no marker for the past in this case...
Arief Wibowo
Arief Wibowo Maria Weidner, yes, you can say that haere mai → come here for now, but it has to be changed later as more words are revealed :)
Christian James Meredith
Christian James Meredith tangata = person right?
Arief Wibowo
Arief Wibowo Maria Weidner guessed correctly, tangata = man (male person)
Christian James Meredith
Christian James Meredith oh whoops
Arief Wibowo
Arief Wibowo It's okay :D
Christian James Meredith
Christian James Meredith Not sure what "ko" functions as, but:
"Ko ia te tangata i haere mai i Aotearoa"
"He, the man, has walked hither from New Zealand"?
Christian James Meredith
Christian James Meredith Man, I should really read the rest of this thread properly...
Arief Wibowo
Arief Wibowo Ko would replace the first comma :P
Arief Wibowo
Arief Wibowo And 'has' isn't quite right. This is a simple sentence
Marius Vincenzii Dennischter
Marius Vincenzii Dennischter Hey Men! Let's travel to New Zealand!
Arief Wibowo
Arief Wibowo I would love to, Vincensiu Denis, but no, it isn't the correct answer :P
Christian James Meredith
Christian James Meredith The man walked here from NZ.
Christian James Meredith
Christian James Meredith He was very wet as a result.
Arief Wibowo
Arief Wibowo I can confirm the correctness of this:
He [ko] the man [i] walked hither/came here from New Zealand
I can't confirm whether he was wet or dry :P
Christian James Meredith
Christian James Meredith He is the man who walked here from New Zullund.
Arief Wibowo
Arief Wibowo DING DING DING
Christian James Meredith wins!
Christian James Meredith
Christian James Meredith Ok, Maria Weidner, this is the second time I've stolen the round from you, so you get this turn (I don't want it :P )
Maria Weidner
Maria Weidner so, ko ia = is he, or do we have to translate "ko" as an extra word? I thought, they belonged together : ko ia = he?
Maria Weidner
Maria Weidner so my guess that the i taere meant he came was correct? it is past?
Arief Wibowo
Arief Wibowo Maria Weidner, "ko ia" would literally be "is he" ("ia" probably cognates with Indonesian "dia")
Arief Wibowo
Arief Wibowo I am not that good in Maori yet, but I guess this is passive voice
Maria Weidner
Maria Weidner Yes, I thought so as well! Would ko ia mean something like : si dia (si Arief..)?
Arief Wibowo
Arief Wibowo To win the round, change "walked here" to the one you originally guessed :)
Arief Wibowo
Arief Wibowo Maria Weidner, I don't have enough knowledge to answer that yet unfortunately :(
Maria Weidner
Maria Weidner oops, it was solved already?? Ok, so I translate the words and someone else puts them in the right order! Temawork! :)
Maria Weidner
Maria Weidner teamwork i meant
Arief Wibowo
Arief Wibowo Yeah, we build upon works of others. Christian James Meredith got it, but he would like you to win (because you contributed half of it, and also because he just hosted the last round)

Maria Weidner, all you need to do is change haere mai to your original guess, so I can properly tag your post into our website :)
Christian James Meredith
Christian James Meredith I like temawork better :P And it's a cutthroat game :-/
Maria Weidner
Maria Weidner But I would just copy what christian wrote... that's stupid. He won. But THANK YOU!!!
Arief Wibowo
Arief Wibowo Hahaha, seems like the next round is yours, Christian James Meredith :)
Maria Weidner
Maria Weidner I'll try my best in the next round!!! I want to win properly! :)
Christian James Meredith
Christian James Meredith Dammit, now I have the burden of coming up with something :P
Christian James Meredith
Christian James Meredith Lemme finish my JP homework first
Arief Wibowo
Arief Wibowo I suddenly recall this round: http://sprogspelet.arwi.im/history/round/?id=100#1
Where judges conferred for half a day to decide the winner :P

Or this round: http://sprogspelet.arwi.im/history/round/?id=67#1 where there were 4 winners :P
Arief Wibowo
Arief Wibowo Gambatte, Christian James Meredith!
Дайте Нефть Из Баку
Дайте Нефть Из Баку Please, make it European. Please? Please?
Christian James Meredith
Christian James Meredith Some people believe Japanese is an Indo-European language, right?
Дайте Нефть Из Баку
Дайте Нефть Из Баку Well, it's a descendant of Ancient Slovene after all.
Arief Wibowo
Arief Wibowo :D
Arief Wibowo
Arief Wibowo Please make it Terran, pretty please?
Christian James Meredith
Christian James Meredith By "Terran", you refer to one of the many "Terran" conlangs out and about, right?
Marius Vincenzii Dennischter
Marius Vincenzii Dennischter P lease make it Auslan :p
Arief Wibowo
Arief Wibowo No no, I mean of this earth. I was afraid that you are going to give us the language of Europa (moon) dwellers.
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