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tauranga - anchorage; fishing ground; resting place

Ka kaha te pupuhi o te hau ki Tauranga ā te pō 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 mā Ngāti-Kahukoka.
These fishing grounds were set aside for Ngāti-Kahukoka.
Passive sentences - tikina...

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

Kei te tauranga waka tō 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

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

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