Another Favorite Māori Word

I forgot one of my favorite Māori words.  

Mātakitaki.

It might be because it's one I have less confidence in.  Not that I have a ton of confidence in the words I listed yesterday.

I had to look up mātakitaki to make sure I knew how to spell it right.

And it turns out, I didn't.

I didn't realize there was a macron.

Now...hopefully I shall always remember that it does.

Mātakitaki as a verb means to watch.

Some simple sentences:

Kei te mātakitaki ia.  She watches/He watches.

I mātakitaki ngā ngeru.  The cats watched.

Ka mātakitaki ngā putiputi māwhereo.  The pink flowers will watch.

What will they watch?

I can't tell you in te reo Māori.  Because to clarify what nouns are doing with the verbs, you need to use either Ki or I...and I'm still confused about all that.

I'm a work in progress.

Please don't yell at me if I've made mistakes.  I'm very insecure.

But please do point out mistakes if in a kindly kaiako kind of way.