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tauranga - anchorage; fishing ground; resting place

Tauranga. ‖ tau (v).

Williams Dictionary

Ka kaha te pupuhi o te hau ki Tauranga ā te nei.
The wind will blow in Tauranga tonight.
Simple sentences: future tense - ka

Tauranga a Rangi.
Rangi is from Tauranga.
Belonging to a place - nō

Ke rāhuitia ēnei tauranga ike Ngāti-Kahukoka.
These fishing grounds were set aside for Ngāti-Kahukoka.
Passive sentences - tikina...

Ka rāhuitia ēnei tauranga ika Ngāti-Kahukoka.
These fishing grounds were set aside for Ngāti-Kahukoka.
Passive sentences - tikina...

Kei te tauranga waka waka?
Is your car in the carpark?
Locatives (at the moment, something is somewhere) - kei te

Ka hoe mai whaka te tauranga waka i Onehunga.
They rowed through the canoe anchorage at Onehunga.
Ka used to indicate the past - ka

Ehara a Rangi Tauranga.
Rangi is not from Tauranga.
Negating nāku possessives - Ehara i...

Me ngā tauranga mangō i waho ake o Puponga.
And the shark fishing grounds off Puponga.

#42: I am eating your apple, you are eating my apple
#84: Why is the baby sleeping?
#30: We two (not you) are going
#102: I did not go, I was not going, I am not going
#166: Nominaliztion
#106: Pop quiz
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