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Active verbNdebe script
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Meanings
be pleasant, sweet; please; like; appeal to
Active verbavoid (out of respect); honour; revere
Active verbprecede; be next before; be older than
Active verbpush; poke
Active verbsee -su + 4.
Active verb
Dialect & variants
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Examples
Dibịa kpọtụrụ mmiri ozuzo, atụkwana ụjọ egbe eluigwe so ya
— A Dibia who calls down rain should not fear the thunder that follows.
O nwero onye ma mbido Igbo na Igbo so uwa bia
— No one truly knows the origins or roots of the Igbo, for they emerged together with the universe, and their being therefore goes beyond the created world.
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Words built on this one
- fọ sò ọkpụkpụ
- gwùsò egwu
- nye nsògbu
- nụsò
- so esuso
- so mmà
- so ogonogo
- so ùso
- sonita
- sopùta
- sowanye
- sò n'òfu
- sò n'ùsòlò
- sò ǹdùmòọdụ
- sò ụkpụlū
- sòchi ibè n'àzụ
- sòchi n'àzụ
- sògbu
- sògwa
- sòni
- sònye
- sònyelụ
- sọ amụ
- sọ anya
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Same spelling, different tones
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- sogrow; be long, tall; sharpen
- sòfollow; accompany; go with
- sụpound (soft objects, e.g. fufu, pounded yam; compare -su 1.); boil; begin to boil; sing (of kettle on cooker); cut, clear (bush, forest); weed
- òsọōkwuùkwuùawkwardness; uncounthness (as result of shyness or inexperience) (-sọ kwuùkwuù behave stupidly)
- kpọ mbụ = -kpọ mgbụ -kpọ nkụdry (e.g. of leaf); be dry Wètalụ m akwụkwọ kpọ lụ nkụ Bring me a dry leaf Ọ bụlụ nà ị ñaa azù ndù afù nókụ ọ gà-àkpọ nkụ ọsọ ọ sọ If you place that fresh fish over the fire it will get dry quickly