mā/mō for future possession

February 14, 2020

Yesterday I was stumped trying to figure out how to say: “This hat is for her” and other similar sentences (about hats) which are about future possession.

So today, I learnt about mā and mō.

In this context, their the same particle indicate future (or “unrealised”) possession for the ā and ō categories.

Of course, mā has many more uses in Te Reo, but in this context is the ā category equivalent of mō.

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