Tena koutou katoa!

Due to the influence of the English language, English sentence patterns have entered into te reo.

I briefly look into some specific sentence patterns that have been affected. An asterisks means the sentence is wrong.

*Tatari moku. - Wait for me.

*He tuatahi tenei moku - This is a first for me.

Ray Harlow has this to say [A Maori Reference Grammar, pg 147]

A handful of transitive verbs prefer ki as the object marker:

"E tatari ana nga tamariki ki te pahi. - The children are waiting for the bus."

Following after Ray Harlow's example, the correct form for *He tuatahi tenei moku are below:

He tuatahi tenei ki ahau. - This is a first for me.