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Pākehā in a sentence

Pākehā meaning

Alternative letter-case form of Pakeha.

Using Pākehā

  • The main meaning on this page is: Alternative letter-case form of Pakeha.
  • In the example corpus, pākehā often appears in combinations such as: the pākehā, that pākehā.

Context around Pākehā

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 25.8 words
  • Position in the sentence: 1 start, 6 middle, 2 end
  • Sentence types: 8 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

either 1× suburban 1×

Often after:

schoolteacher 1× mean 1× land 1× desire 1× women 1× recorders 1× cities 1×

Sentence patterns with Pākehā

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

by some pākehā land agents 1× class suburban pākehā women and 1× complete that pākehā recorders often 1× father the pākehā schoolteacher who 1× found that pākehā desire for 1× in the pākehā cities 1× of either pākehā or māori 1× pākehā had little 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

due to its 1× in her research 1× pākehā had little 1× resisting and co 1× the use of 1× though final vowels 1×

Common sentence endings:

class māori men 1× for land remained 1× in the conversation 1× mean to you 1× not use efficiently 1× omitted them entirely 1×

Words around Pākehā

Just before it in the word index:

pakefield 2 pake 2 pakcoin 2 pakatan 102 pakarimas 2 pakaraima 3

Just after it in the word index:

pakenham 96 paker 3 pakes 2 pakhi 2 pakhnotskaya 2 pakhtakor 2

Similar in corpus frequency:

aargau 12 abacos 12 abboud 12 abdelkader 12 abdomens 12 abdou 12

Corpus analysis for Pākehā

  • In this selection, "pākehā" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, either, suburban, schoolteacher, mean and land stand out and add context to how "pākehā" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include by some pākehā land agents and class suburban pākehā women and. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "pākehā" sits close to words such as aargau, abacos and abboud, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with pākehā

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

What does Pākehā mean to you? (6 words)

Resisting and co-operating iwi both found that Pākehā desire for land remained. (13 words)

Pākehā had little understanding of all that and accused Māori of holding onto land they did not use efficiently. (19 words)

Longer example sentences

The use of "eh" in New Zealand is very common among all demographics, although initially it was frequently linked with two main groups of people, the first being young, working-class, suburban Pākehā women and the second being working-class Māori men. (42 words)

Due to its Eurocentric rules, the high fees, its location remote from the lands in question, and unfair practices by some Pākehā land agents, its main effect was to allow Māori to sell their land without restraint from other tribal members. (41 words)

Urbanisation after the Second World War led to widespread language shift from Māori predominance (with Māori the primary language of the rural whānau ) to English predominance (English serving as the primary language in the Pākehā cities). (36 words)

Question examples

What does Pākehā mean to you? (6 words)

Example sentences (9)

When they did enter, the haka they performed for my father, the Pākehā schoolteacher who had taught them, was something that has remained with me to this day.

What does Pākehā mean to you?

Due to its Eurocentric rules, the high fees, its location remote from the lands in question, and unfair practices by some Pākehā land agents, its main effect was to allow Māori to sell their land without restraint from other tribal members.

In her research, Meyerhoff analyzed conversations between an interviewer and an interviewee of either Pākehā or Māori descent and calculated the frequency of "eh" in the conversation.

Pākehā had little understanding of all that and accused Māori of holding onto land they did not use efficiently.

Resisting and co-operating iwi both found that Pākehā desire for land remained.

The use of "eh" in New Zealand is very common among all demographics, although initially it was frequently linked with two main groups of people, the first being young, working-class, suburban Pākehā women and the second being working-class Māori men.

Though final vowels existed in Kaitahu dialect, the elision was so nearly complete that pākehā recorders often omitted them entirely.

Urbanisation after the Second World War led to widespread language shift from Māori predominance (with Māori the primary language of the rural whānau ) to English predominance (English serving as the primary language in the Pākehā cities).

Common combinations with pākehā

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "pākehā" in a sentence?
An example: "When they did enter, the haka they performed for my father, the Pākehā schoolteacher who had taught them, was something that has remained with me to this day." This page contains 9 example sentences with the word "pākehā" from authentic English texts.
What does "pākehā" mean?
Pākehā means: Alternative letter-case form of Pakeha.
How many example sentences with "pākehā" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains 9 example sentences with "pākehā", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.