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tuanui - roof

Tuanui (i), n. 1. Roof of a house. Ka puta ki runga o te tuanui o te whare tu ai (T. 72).

2. Bark of male tree of totara.

Williams Dictionary

Tuanui (ii), a. Harsh, overbearing. Tuanui noa atu to kupu ki tou tuakana.

whakatuanui, v.i. Be overbearing or arrogant, bluster.

Williams Dictionary

Kua te pākete i raro i te turuturu i te tuanui.
The bucket under the hole in the roof is full.
Statives with 'i' - i a, i te, i ngā

Kei whea te tuanui?
Where is the roof?

#121: Negating ko
#81: What has happened to cause you to cry now?
#18: The sheep are standing
#124: Talking about more than one person
#183: All the particles in the postposed periphery so far
#60: My mother is cake baking
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