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That is it. . .where is op ? send this guy the recharge card asap.

Perfect Translation...

yh @matrix man dats so true. we need more graudtes in yourba doing more creative things. thats how other languages get richer. I also think we need to speak our mother tongue more because there is a trend of all our people trying to turn English when its not vice versa. If we dont hold our thing itl definitely end up in the museum.

there is no direct translation to English. All the explanation you are getting are what they are: Explanation. it is not every word that has direct translation to another language as languages are influenced by culture and beliefs. where is my recharge card. I use T-moble.

geosegun:

EKU-IJOKO literary means WELL-DONE FOR YOUR PATIENCE WHILE STILL SEATED.

EKU here works as an adjective qualifying a Noun(IJOKO).
As in EKU-ISE which means WELL-DONE FOR WORKING SO HARD.

u r right

Die Sitting

Die Dancing

Well Sat

Oya Oya... Etisalat 200. I dash u 300

Wow, so many attempts. Thanks everybody but in my opinion geosegun is the closest and quite a number of people agree. At least I can always say "Thanks for being patient or thanks for your patience, the MD will see you in a moment". He is deserving of the recharge card.

Geosegun, please post the phone number/email address you would like me to send it to asap. Thanks. Once again, Thanks everybody.

Simply put...it means how are you all doing?

It literally means "well done sitting down".its like saying thanks for waiting

"Eku" does not have a direct translation in English. It cannot be said to mean only "Well". The sentence may mean as others have said Hope you are well sitted or antthing complementing you sitting down ( positively). Conversely, it may be a form of scorn for being idle, redundant , here the tone ofthe sentence matters. But I must say again that Eku does not have a direct meaning in English , and this is what really makes it convenient for Yorubas to greet or pay complement in any situation .

logica: It does have a literal English translation - "greetings" or "compliments".

So "E ku ijoko" literally translates to "greetings as you are seated".

you're on point

its true- eku ijoko- well done for sitting down!

The language we can never take literally!

geosegun:

EKU-IJOKO literary means WELL-DONE FOR YOUR PATIENCE WHILE STILL SEATED.

EKU here works as an adjective qualifying a Noun(IJOKO).
As in EKU-ISE which means WELL-DONE FOR WORKING SO HARD.

Mr lecturer

Greetings are generally wishes not thanksgiving. In dat light "gud mornin" wishes u a gud morning just as "happy new year" prays for u to be happy all thru d new year. So to me...a non-yoruba..."E ku Ijoko" means "Enjoy ur sitting".

On a lighter note, Yoruba greetings are just too many. E ku ojo...when d rain d drenches u, e ku oja when found in d market and e ku ja when u are caught fighting. Lots of greetings jare

thanks for sitting patiently

Die sitting

there is no English translation for it.
English speaking people don't greet each other for sitting down (eku ijoko)or working (eku ise) or resting (eku isimi) or enjoying (eku igbadun) or success (eku orire) or shitting (eku iyagbe). They only have greeting for time of the day: good morning (eku aro/ ekaro), good afternoon (eku asan /ekasan) and good evening (eku ale /ekale).

Eku oro PHCN, lol.

eku ijoko means enjoy ur sitting down

It is HOW ARE YOU DOING ON YOUR SEAT, OR HOW ARE FEELING ON THAT SEAT?8-) It is HOW ARE YOU DOING ON YOUR SEAT, OR HOW ARE FEELING ON THAT SEAT?8-)

emooo: D ans is wel sitted

Seconded

If "eku aró" means "goodmorning". Then "eku ijoko" shld mean "GOOD SIT DOWN"

IT IS WELLDONE FOR SITTING PATIENTLY. ON A MORE SERIOUS NOTE.IT IS WELLDONE FOR SITTING PATIENTLY. ON A MORE SERIOUS NOTE.IT IS WELLDONE FOR SITTING PATIENTLY. ON A MORE SERIOUS NOTE.

DECOtech: If "eku aró" means "goodmorning". Then "eku ijoko" shld mean "GOOD SIT DOWN"

lol @ "good sit down"
literal translation is different from equivalent translation.

geosegun:

EKU-IJOKO literary means WELL-DONE FOR YOUR PATIENCE WHILE STILL SEATED.

EKU here works as an adjective qualifying a Noun(IJOKO).
As in EKU-ISE which means WELL-DONE FOR WORKING SO HARD.

I GUESS YOU HAVE A MASTERS DEGREE IN YORUBA..

EKU ISE OPOLO.

@poster and all. The poster said you don't have to translate the meaning literally, meaning you don't have to include seat or welldone to the meaning.

My answer: Hope you guys are Ok, I acknowledge your presence.

"Eku Ijoko" is a two words sentence in Yoruba, but in English it's a nine (9) words sentence.


Pls note: The sentence " Se ewa ok" is not a full Yoruba sentence or words as it contain the English word "ok" and cannot therefore be used to replace the English words "Hope you're ok".

paris10: @poster and all. The poster said you don't have to translate the meaning literally, meaning you don't have to include seat or welldone to the meaning.

My answer: Hope you guys are Ok, I acknowledge your presence.

"Eku Ijoko" is a two words sentence in Yoruba, but in English it's a nine (9) words sentence.


Pls note: The sentence " Se ewa ok" is not a full Yoruba sentence or words as it contain the English word "ok" and cannot therefore be used to replace the English words "Hope you're ok".

best answer!!
you deserve the recharge card

HAPPY SITTING RELAXATION

Eku is the exclamation of greeting, it intends and infers good tiding for well being....So it does not mean good or well...It infers good or well..but in actuality it is Greetings or tidings..."EKU ARO" would be greetings of the morning,"eku odun" would be greetings of the season or year...EKU IJOKO would be greetings of your sitt in...Eku abo..greetings of your coming..and so on..thats why it precceds anything one would be "greeted for"......Yoruba is one of the closest to original languages...Did you know the word for man OKURIN in yoruba has counter part in old Japan wgere they call a man "OKARI" and a man king "OKA" ...in hawaii they say OKA for man also and OKANE,while the hawaiians have history going back to japanese islands thousands of years ago...egypt old language has word "jo" or pronounced almost like "je" which is the same meaning as the yoruba word for snake "EJO"....the word "Duro" for wait or stop or have patience in yoruba is related to prayer "adura" in yoruba and these words have counterparts in INDIA and spanish,english or any where old latin language influence the speaking....Endurance or endure is as saying enduro as in the ability or act of holding inplace over time...In India where their form of prayer is a stillness in meditation,their word for prayer is "dua" as related to "dura" which relates to "duro"..a prayer style that require one to stop and wait aside from all thoughts and actions and emotions and seek inner endurance through life condition..So no surprise that ancient root for the words marking prayer are synonymous with waiting,staying and enduring...Staying power is having endurance,ma duro(yoruba for wait or stop or stay)......Many yoruba words track far and wide relating across the world in chinese language in native american language,like the use of "MA" as in illocutionary prefix..to be in an act of or to command an act or idea into being...To be in english has the letters BE and in youruba,to be is said BE but pronouce with the ami designation that sound like saying "beh"..its not coincidence that so many similarities to so many languages in yoruba...it is the fact of an original relationship from long ago also marked in genetic language....The list of examples would require volumes for me to complete...nigerians would make good in the field of liguistics if they spoke thier native tounge..tounge is related to taste and toung begins with TO and in yoruba,TO is the word for taste and tounge..So by such logic,tounge is an expanded form of the simplre word TO in yoruba and therby induct/deduct that the simpler word to was the original and the parties that migrated away from africa to far off areas also expande the words and chnged them in other ways...I can think of some words that dont compare in english but i found comparison in french and spaish and some compare in only chinese and some in germanic language...Explore many world languages from the base of nigerian language and see if you too can build a scattered puzzle back to a unified whole,which is what all people of earth are by origin....

Am an Ibo guy and i served in Osun state precisely ipetumodu, and they say eku-kale . Some other guys say Eku-joko .They mean the same thing from the perspective of the speaker which is well done.

economia: u be olodo... unlimited. U an inbecile. Where be ur village self? U don kom lag now dey make mouth. May ODUWA not be hapi with u (amin orisaoke!)

Why the curse? Everyone is just sharing ideas and you cursed me? May the curse reverse to u not me ... And again u unfortunate being, am not in Lag... Get off mah diccck.