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bụ ùbụ

Active verb

Ndebe script

- 

Meanings

  1. scramble (for something)

    Active verb
  2. scramble (e.g. of children when eating or given something like biscuits)

    Active verb

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  • ụbụ

Examples

Ụmụaka ahụ na-ebụ ụbụ maka ihe e nyere ha.

— The children are scrambling for what was given to them.

E bupụla ụbụ n'ahịa ahụ taa.

— There was a scramble at the market today.

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