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How to say “tree” in Yorùbá

Common WordsLevel 1 · Beginner
English
tree
Yorùbá translation
Igi

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Àwọn igi náà subú

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Examples

igi gíga fíofío

a very tall tree

Ó dúró bí igi.

It stood like a tree.

Mo gbo igi kí èso ré.

I shook the tree so the fruit would fall.

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

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