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How to say “sea” in Yorùbá

Common WordsLevel 2 · Easy
English
sea
Yorùbá translation
Òkun

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Òkun pupa ń ba ni lẹ́rù.

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Examples

Òkun pa rọ́rọ́.

The sea is calm.

Àbúrò mi kan tòkè òkun dé!

One of my younger siblings arrived from abroad!

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

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