Yorùbá · Verbs · Level 3

How to say “Pursue” in Yorùbá

VerbsLevel 3 · Intermediate
English
Pursue
Yorùbá translation
Lé

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Ṣé o lè lu ìlù Bàtá?

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Examples

Ó ti ta àṣẹ lé wa.

He's cast a spell on us.

Wọ́n lé e nílèékulèé, òun náà sàsàákúsàá.

They pursued him relentlessly, and he also ran relentlessly.

Kò sẹ́ni tá a lè gbọ́kàn lé.

There's no one we can rely on.

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

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