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How to say “monkey” in Yorùbá

Common WordsLevel 3 · Intermediate
English
monkey
Yorùbá translation
Ọ̀bọ

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Orí igi ni ọ̀bọ ń gbé

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Examples

Ọ̀bọ ni wọ́n.

They're fools.

Ọ̀bọ mẹ́tàléláàádóje (133) ni ó wà nínú ọgbà ẹranko yìí.

There are 133 monkeys in this zoo.

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

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