§ 37.

Use the specific particle ko when the predicate is either

i.	A proper name, or personal pronoun, a local noun (§ 8), or either of the interrogatives wai, or hea; or
ii.	A common noun with any of the definitives (§ 18) except he.

Examples.

• Ko ia tenei, this is he.

• Ko wai tona ingoa? what is his name?

• Ko Hamo tona ingoa, his name is Hamo.

• Ko toku whare tera, that is my house.

• Ko hea tera maunga? What is (the name of) that mountain?