Āwhina / Help

Kohinga = Collection, Kupu = Word

Kohinga Kupu is a tool to help with vocabulary acquisition in te reo Māori. For more information about the rationale for this tool see: Kaupapa

How to use Kohinga Kupu

Enter an initial term into the pouaka kuputuhi/input box and let Kohinga Kupu generate a collection of thematically linked kupu Māori for you to learn. The icons cross from the returned kupu are links to Te Aka - the Māori Dictionary and Paekupu. Kia tupato! Because Kohinga Kupu uses AI to generate the collection it is important that you check any results you're not sure of by using one of these resources. Te Aka is good for most words, but for more technical terms Paekupu will also be useful.

If you find a wrong word you can remove it from the kohinga by clicking on it.

More general and broader topic terms may return better results than more niche terms. You can also use te reo Māori for your search terms.

There are three other activities you can do with your kohinga:

1. Create Flash Cards for a quick study session by clicking on the Review with Flash Cards link; or
2. play 'E rua E rua' a word match game;
3. Generate some active sentences from the kohinga with the Rerenga Kōrero link
4. Download the set as a plain text file to import into either Ankiweb or Quizlet - two popular Flash Card apps.

Using Kohinga Kupu to teach

Kohinga Kupu Lesson - use this short lesson in your te reo Māori class.

Privacy and Contact Information

Kohinga Kupu collects no data from users. The results for your searches will be cached by our server for one hour.

If you have any pātai or feedback about Kohinga Kupu please email me at pakehaparalysis@gmail.com.

Follow my other project Te Pōhi Kupu on Mastodon.

Ngā mihi,
Brent Simpson