§ 60. Interrogative Verbs.

—The interrogatives aha, what, and pehea, of what nature, may be used as verbs; aha, to ask what a person is doing, or what is being done; and pehea, to ask how a person is acting, or in what way a thing is being done. In rendering into English another word will often be needed to complete the sense.

For other interrogative sentences see § 41.

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Examples.

• E aha ana ia? what is he doing?

• I ahatia te kuri? what was done to the dog?

• I peheatia e ia te waka i mānu ai? How was the canoe [treated] by him that it floated? or, How did he get the canoe afloat?

• Ka pehea koe a tona taenga mai? How shall you [act] on his arrival?

• I pehea mai ia ki tau ki? How did he [answer] what you said?

• Me pehea tenei? How is this to be [treated]?