- No te mane i haere mai ai, he came here (last) Monday.
3. From, (that cause),
- No reira i kino ai, from that cause was he displeased.
Note.—In all examples of this, and the preceding head, no will take a past tense after it.
4. From, (that place),
- No Matamata tenei tangata, this man belongs to Matamata.
There is a distinction between this meaning of no, and that of i, (vid. i. 3.) which is very useful and important. No signifies the place to which you belong, whether it be England, Rotorua, &c. I signifies the place you have been visiting as a mere sojourner.
Thus if we were to ask a person, "No hea koe?" he would most probably reply, "No Hauraki, no Waikato," or some place of which he was a denizen; but if we were to ask "I hea koe?" he would then mention some place he had been just visiting. This distinction does not seem to be so clearly recognized at the northward as it is in all the central parts of the island.
NA, of, the active form of no, (vid. Syntax for the distinction between o and a).
- Na wai tena kuri? whose is that dog?