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How to say “shoe” in Hausa

Common WordsLevel 3 · Intermediate
English
shoe
Hausa translation
Takalmi

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Ba na yawo ba takalmi a ƙafa ta

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Examples

Ina da dutse a takalmi.

I have a stone in my shoe.

Saka takalmi mai santsi, mai launin roba.

Wear flat, rubber-soled shoes.

Na ga yaron ya saka takalmi mai launin ruwan ƙasa.

I saw the boy in brown shoes.

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

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