painga - benefit, skill, good qualities (pai + nominal suffix -nga)
I whakatikahia te waka hei painga mō te haere.The car was fixed for the benefit of the trip.Passive sentences - tikina...
Korekau ōna painga.It has got no redeeming features whatsoever.there wasn't any... absolutely no... - Kāore kau...
Mō te whakararu i te tangata kāore he painga i a koe.It's easy for you to piss people off.No sweat to you... - Mō te... he painga i a koe...
Engari ko te painga, he mōhio ia ki te tiaki i te pakeke, i tōna kuia.But on the good side, he's very good at looking after his elders.
