mkpa ọ kụ
Active verbNdebe script
Meanings
matches
Active verbshove off; brush off; set aside (normally with instrument); pick out (with stick) and remove; push open by force, press open (e.g. burst door open); push off (e.g. three persons lying on a bed, one of them being pushed off as a result of the others being selfish. The pushing is not done by the hand but by the body) Bikō, kpapù alịlị afù ìlo Please take that millipede outside; (fig.) push out (e.g. if one person is forced to leave house where he was living with others)
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- mkpa nókụ -kpapù
Examples
Zụta mkpa ọ kụ n'ahịa taa.
— Buy matches at the market today.
Ị nwere mkpa ọ kụ m ga-eji mụnye ọkụ?
— Do you have matches I can use to light the fire?
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