Yorùbá · Verbs · Level 2

How to say “Grow” in Yorùbá

VerbsLevel 2 · Elementary
English
Grow
Yorùbá translation
Dàgbà

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Ọgá ilé ìwé yí tí dàgbà.

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Examples

Wàá dàgbà, wàá dogbó.

You shall grow up, you shall grow old.

Ọ̀pẹ̀rẹ̀kẹ́tẹ̀ ń dàgbà, inú adámọ̀ ń bàjẹ́.

The young palm tree grows, the people get angry.

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

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