Hausa · Verbs · Level 5

How to say “Race” in Hausa

(verb)

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English
Race(verb)
Hausa translation
Tsere

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Za a tara yara su yi wasan tsere.

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Examples

Kakanninku masu yafiya sun tsere min!

Your freaking grandfather nearly ran me over!

Ya siya wa kansa sabuwar motar tsere.

He bought himself a new sports car.

Brown da kansa bai so ya tsere.

Brown himself did not want to escape.

These are sentences where the word appears, matched automatically rather than hand-picked usage.

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