National Library – He Meka! He Meka!

Ko ‘He meka! He meka’ he kīwaha, he kīanga e mōhiotia ana i te reo Māori, ko te tikanga o tēnei kōrero ‘He pono?!’ ‘He tika! He tika!’ rānei.

‘He meka! He meka!’ is a kīwaha, an idiom, and it translates as ‘Is that right?!’ or ‘True! True!’