ma
Active verbNdebe script
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Meanings
know; be familiar with; know how (to do something)
Active verbjump
Active verbstab; throw; pierce; stick in
Active verbmould
Active verbỌ māka! Good! It is very good, beautiful!
Active verbbeat (of rain and sun)
Active verbwrap; tie
Active verbannounce
Active verbrub; press
Active verbmarks the future negative tenses yams (future progressive negative, used in main clauses, compare - ga 3.) (future perfect negative) buying yams/Chike can’t have been buying yams (future progressive perfect negative)
Active verb
Dialect & variants
No other variants have been documented for this word.
Examples
Eriri ma ngwugwu, ngwugwu ma onye kere ya
— The rope knows the parcel, and the parcel knows who wrapped it.
Agama turu aka n’ọbụ ya ma ọ nweghị onye ji ya mma
— The lizard that fell from the tall iroko tree nodded in its own praise when no one else did.
Related words
Words built on this one
- (agwa) -ma
- (agwa)ụnò) -ma
- (àrụ) -ma nni
- dinà mmakpù
- ma akwà
- ma akwụkwọ
- ma ama
- ma amụma
- ma anya
- ma ife
- ma ikpe
- ma isì
- ma lìlì
- ma mkpūlu
- ma mmilī
- ma mmà
- ma mmā
- ma n'ọnyà
- ma nnwoke
- ma obì
- ma osisi
- ma ubè
- ma àbùbà
- ma àrụ
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