Tainui, n. Pomaderris apetala, a shrub. So called as it is traditionally reported to have grown from the skids of the Tainui canoe.
Williams Dictionary
He aha te mahi a Tainui i te rā nei?What is Tainui doing today?What are you doing? - He aha tāu mahi?
Ka haere tonu a Tainui, ā, ka pahemo i tētahi moutere.Tainui went on and passed an island.Conjunctions - and - ā
Nā.te.mea he mahi nā te Kawanatanga, i kore ai te iwi o Waikato e whakaae ..Because it was Government work, the Tainui people did not agree ..
Ko Tainui te waka.Tainui is the canoe.
Ko Tainui me Te Arawa ngā waka.Tainui and Te Arawa are the canoes.
Ko te ūnga mai o Tainui, o te waka i ū tuatahi mai.The landing of Tainui, the first canoe to land.
Ka karakiatia e ia kia kore a Tainui e uru mai ki roto i te moana o Whaingaroa.at the sea of Whaingaroa He prayed so that Tainui might not enter the Raglan Harbour Heads.
Kei te pānui a Tainui te pukapuka ki ngā kōhungahunga.Tainui is reading the book to the young people.
