SeunPlus: What is the meaning of:
* Ingemegiye
* Asampette
* Igerini
* Oyolima (frm Flavour)

I hope I got the spellings.

I'll also like to know Igbo greetings like Good morning, afternoon and evening. How are you. How do you do. Where are you going to. Where are you from. Will you follow me. Say something. Don't be stupid and so many more.

SeunPlus: What is the meaning of:
* Ingemegiye
* Asampette
* Igerini
* Oyolima (frm Flavour)

I hope I got the spellings.

I'll also like to know Igbo greetings like Good morning, afternoon and evening. How are you. How do you do. Where are you going to. Where are you from. Will you follow me. Say something. Don't be stupid and so many more.

odumchi:

"Asampete" is a pet name. It doesn't really have any literal meaning but it's understood to mean "pretty/beautiful girl".

There are many ways to say "good morning" depending on who you are addressing:

Good morning - "Ndeewo, I boola chi?" or "I tetela?"

If you're addressing someone older than you, you say "ndeewo [person's name], I boola?"

If your addressing someone who is your agemate, then you can simply omit the "ndeewo".

When someone [younger than you] greets you good morning you respond with "I tetela?", which literally means "have you awaken?".

Here are some example of usage:
You wake up and you see your mother and [as Igbo customs demand] you greet her first.
You: "Nne m (my mother), ndeewo. I boola chi?"
Her: "Nwa m (my child), ndeewo. I tetela?"

J12:

"I di" = "You are"
"Okene" = Old

SeunPlus: What is the meaning of:
* Ingemegiye M ga eme gi ihe - as spoken M g'eme g'ihe
* Asampette
* Igerini I ga eri nri - as spoken I g'eri nri
* Oyolima (frm Flavour)

I hope I got the spellings.

I'll also like to know Igbo greetings like Good morning, afternoon and evening. How are you. How do you do. Where are you going to. Where are you from. Will you follow me. Say something. Don't be stupid and so many more.

SeunPlus:
you said good morning is ndewo or ibolachi but someone on this thread, when I was going through it said 'ututuoma'. Does it mean that the person is wrong? Whereas I know that oma means good in Igbo language e.g Chioma (good God) and so on. And please if I'm not requesting too much, I'll like to get other translation.

some-girl:

how can flavour list that as one of the reasons he likes a woman in his song

odumchi:

Technically, she isn't wrong. "Ututu oma" literally means "good morning" but Igbo people don't greet that way. It's just that people are trying to make the Igbo language's structure mirror that of English. The idea is that since "Ututu" means "morning" and "Oma" means "good", then good morning should be "Ututu Oma".

The translations that I supplied you with are the traditional/classic ways of greeting people in Igbo language.

If you'd prefer the modern/English-influenced, then here you go;

Good morning - Ututu Oma
Good afternoon - Ehihe Oma
Good evening - Mgbede Oma
Good night - Ka chi foo (This literally means let daylight disappear)

(I won't be surprised if people start saying "Abali Oma" for "good night" )

J12:

Lol. Maybe you spelt it incorrectly or perhaps I thought you meant "Okenhe".
Which flavor's song is that by the way?

J12:

"I di" = "You are"
"Okene" = Old

J12:

Ingemegiye = I'll do something to you
* Asampette = Same as Asa Nwa meaning Beautiful girl
* Igerini= Will you eat
* Oyolima (frm Flavour)= Its a slang. I dunno what it means

achi4u: which kind language be this nah!__Ingemegiye and Igerini?
why not;

*Ingemegiye = M ga eme gi ihe/ife.

*Igerini = I ga eri nri?

achi4u: Okenye = Old man/person.

Ochie = Old thing(e.g Ochie ugboala = old car)

J12:

Ingemegiye = I'll do something to you
* Asampette = Same as Asa Nwa meaning Beautiful girl
* Igerini= Will you eat
* Oyolima (frm Flavour)= Its a slang. I dunno what it means

J12:

LOl. She spelt them wrong and I didn't correct.

o'boy:
oyolima no be slang o,its a type of dance,flavour copied it from Chief steven Osadebe

J12:

I normally pronounce it as okenhe.

It wasn't until recently that I learned to describe peoples age in Igbo. Like

Okorobia - Young Man
Agbobia - Young woman

Agadi Nwoke - Old Man
Agadi Nwanyi - Old Woman

SeunPlus: What is the meaning of:
* Ingemegiye
* Asampette
* Igerini
* Oyolima (frm Flavour)

I hope I got the spellings.

I'll also like to know Igbo greetings like Good morning, afternoon and evening. How are you. How do you do. Where are you going to. Where are you from. Will you follow me. Say something. Don't be stupid and so many more.

Literal translation:
M ga-eme gi ihe (not Ingemegiye): I'm going to do something to you
Asampete: Beautiful
I ga-eri nni (not Igerini): Will you eat food?
Oyolima is a slang used by Igbo men to describe that a lady is hot/sexy/beautiful. Some people also use it on bed as an exclaimation to show that the s3xing is going smoothly.

Good morning - Ututu oma
Good afternoon - Ehihie oma
Good evening - Mgbede oma
Good night literally means Abali oma but since in English language, it is used to tell someone goodbye in the night, we use 'kachifo'.
How are you - Ke kwanu
How do you do - Kedu ka imere
Where are you going to - Ebee ka i na-aga
Where are you from - Ebee ka isi
Will you follow me - I ga-eso m
Say something - Kwuo ihe
Don't be stupid - E zuzu na

Like I said earlier, this is just a literal translation.

BTW, are you doing this for me

achi4u: Your RIGHT.

Remaining:

Umuaka = Nwatakiri

Ibiriachi =... (pls sombody should fill this one)

achi4u:
*Okene is in Ondo state

J12:

+ Umuazi

o'boy:
"I di ukene" is used when you are refering to a woman or girl that has front and back,somehow means "she's complete"

o'boy:
"I di ukene" is used when you are refering to a woman or girl that has front and back,somehow means "she's complete"

achi4u: what of "I di ogoo"?

btw,what do you mean by "front" & back in a woman?(pls am a learner)

*for my own side we dey call am,"attack" & "defence"

achi4u: what is "ibiriachi"?

some-girl:


the bolded sound weird. A Yoruba guy once argued with me that ututu oma was one of the ways Igbos greet as he'd heard it during his NYSC in an Igbo town.
I have never heard an Igbo person in real life salute like that.
Iboola, Isala or Itetela are used when you see the person for the first time that day and Ndeewo is the equivalent of good day so may be used (almost) anytime.

ogugua88: [size=13pt]Professors, nye m aka biko. Pronunciation help: is "ife gi amaka" (nice to meet you) pronounced as it looks (ife gee amaka) or as "ife g'amaka" (silent i)?

One more thing. "Ebe ka o di?" is "where is he/she?". If I wanted to say, "where is Chioma?", how would I say it? "Ebe ka Chioma?" "Ebe ka Chioma di?" The former looks/sounds correct to me.[/size]