jìde
Active verbNdebe script
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Meanings
hold; grasp
Active verb
Dialect & variants
No other variants have been documented for this word.
Examples
Ome ife jide ofo
— Whatever you are doing, see that you do it rightly.
oso aburo oso,bu na nwanyi gba ba oso jide aka na ala
— When a woman wants to run in a ladylike way she holds her breasts so they do not swing; but when she is running for her life she forgets to hold them and runs with her breasts swinging.
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