Te Peneneke

Monite 26 Aperira 2021 Translation Exercises

1/ From English

“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit hole, and that means comfort.”

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit or There and Back Again.

2/ To Maori

I raro i te enua, teta’i va’arua, te no’o ra teta’i peneneke

E va’arua puma’ana kia no’o’ia e ia

Kare i te nga’i vi’ivi’i, aunga kino, oneone e te taukore

Kia kaikai’ia ki reira.

Uri’ia e Ana Andrew

3/ Maori to English

In the ground, one hole lived a hobbit A whole of comfort where he lived. Its not an ugly, filthy and smelly, sandy and unbearable place to eat from

4/ Discussions:

hole: living place in the ground for any tinny animals

bare: waistlands, nothing grows there

hobbit: smaller people than the dwarfs

oozy smell: rotten type of wetty and ugly smell

comfort: place of heaven, liveable and suitable to live in

ugly: not nice to see, live in or to be an eating place