Yorùbá · Common Words · Level 2

How to say “enemy” in Yorùbá

Common WordsLevel 2 · Easy
English
enemy
Yorùbá translation
Ọ̀tá

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Ejò jẹ́ ọ̀tá àkókò nínú oko ẹja

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Examples

ọ̀tá mí gàn mí

my enemy disparages me

Ìṣẹ́ ti ṣẹ́ ọ̀tá wa.

Poverty has afflicted our enemies.

Ebi ló mú ọ̀tá túḿbá.

It was hunger that made the enemy surrender.

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

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