Vallerie:

wats "i miss you" in igbo?

E missirim gi! , Just kidding, but some people would say that, sorry, a lot of people would say that.

I think I miss you in Igbo would be , i dont know

I miss you - o na-ewute m na i noghi m nso (or n'akuku) . . . or. . . Agu ihu gi na-agu m
(stuff lovers say to each other)

OR, do you mean . . .

I miss you - anaghi m enweta gi . . . or. . . enwetafughi m gi
(when you can't get a hold of someone)

ezeagu:

Let's make up a new Igbo word for Highway. I suggest Uzorukwu or Uzukwu. I didn't even notice that it could translate directly to 'highway' in English.

Then our High ways can have names like U15 or something, or maybe when we create an alphabet or our own symbols we can have Ω15  , Actually that sign looks like a [url=http://www.ezakwantu.com/Trade%20Beads%20Manilla%20Currency.jpg]manilla[/url], so it could be used as a currency symbol!

I don't know if you're serious or not, but to me, this idea doesn't sound bad at all.

ChinenyeN:

I don't know if you're serious or not, but to me, this idea doesn't sound bad at all.

ChinenyeN:

I miss you - o na-ewute m na i noghi m nso (or n'akuku) . . . or. . . Agu ihu gi na-agu m
(stuff lovers say to each other)

OR, do you mean . . .

I miss you - anaghi m enweta gi . . . or. . . enwetafughi m gi
(when you can't get a hold of someone)
I don't know if you're serious or not, but to me, this idea doesn't sound bad at all.

I am serious, I want every sign, notice board, street, town, village, City (including Port Harcourt), club, school EVERYTHING to be in our native language, Igbo. Currency is obviously a problem because were in Nigeria (ugh) but if there was a proper federation, I would like for our currency to have symbols or images from the currency our ancestors used. E.g Have a manilla at the back of a coin, or have one side of a note filled with cowry security patterns.

Seeing that Okpogho coin made me smile. Is that authentic? Either way, authentic or not, can I somehow get one that say "IKPEGHE" in place of "OKPOGHO" and "NNAA" in place of "OTU"?
I like this idea of yours.

ChinenyeN:

Seeing that Okpogho coin made me smile. Is that authentic? Either way, authentic or not, can I somehow get one that say "IKPEGHE" in place of "OKPOGHO" and "NNAA" in place of "OTU"?
I like this idea of yours.

it's a made up coin.


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Oh okay. Is there a way I can get my own made up coin?

Somebody translate these words in to Igbo .

City
Town
Village
E mail
Identification
date
number
edit
pending
system
Electricity

ChinenyeN:

Oh okay. Is there a way I can get my own made up coin?

Photoshop.

ezeagu:

Somebody translate these words in to Igbo  .

City
Town
Village
E mail
Identification 
date
number
edit
pending
system
Electricity

Obodo 
Obodo 
Ogo
Imel
Ife eji mara gi / Ifejimaragi / Aidentifikeshon 
Ubochi
Nomba
I meghari / Imeghari
Ka na bia / Kanabia
Sistemu
Oku

Number - Onu Ogugu
System - Orunotu

[i][/i]igbo ochi----english laughter

hausa---dariya

yoruba----


who knows the yoruba word for laughter?

udezue:

Obodo 
Obodo 
Ogo
Imel
Ife eji mara gi / Ifejimaragi / Aidentifikeshon 
Ubochi
Nomba
I meghari / Imeghari
Ka na bia / Kanabia
Sistemu
Oku

Translate: In a small town located in the biggest city in the west, I tried to send an e-mail for identification in order for me to pay my electricity bill, only to find out my details were pending on the system, to be edited by a moderator on a later date. Into Igbo 

We need to update our language, pronto.

Email Address?

Shapes:

Square
Triangle
Rectangle, etc?

I want to give this a try. . .

Translate:
In a small town located in the biggest city in the west, I tried to send an e-mail for identification in order for me to pay my electricity bill, only to find out my details were pending on the system, to be edited by a moderator on a later date.

Translation:
N'ama nta no n'obodo dikarikasiri ukwu n'odida anwu, agbaliri m iziga ozi igwe e ji maara m ka m nwe ike ikwu ugwo oku m, bia achofuta na ihe nkowasi m ka na-eche ka onye njikata orunotu bia emegharia ya n'ubochi ozo.

Interestingly. . . The Igbo translation is shorter, when written. I also took the liberty of counting the syllables, and found that the English translation has 75 syllables, and the Igbo translation has 71 syllables.

Maybe our issue is not that Igbo is lacking. Maybe our issue is that most people are so much more accustomed to speaking English over Igbo, that it seems as if we're losing our fluency in Igbo.

ezeagu:

Translate: In a small town located in the biggest city in the west, I tried to send an e-mail for identification in order for me to pay my electricity bill, only to find out my details were pending on the system, to be edited by a moderator on a later date. Into Igbo 

We need to update our language, pronto.

Na obere ama di na obodo kacha ibe ya na odida anyanwu,a gbalirim i ziga ozi igwe komputa maka ihe puru iche e jiri mara m ka m were nwe ike ikwu ugwo oku m,bia choputa na ihe gbasara m ka no na system na eche mgbe onye modurator ga edeghari ya na ubochi ozo.
. . .just giving it a trial.

You guys should work on these translations then: http://www.google.com/transconsole

I've started participating in that Google translation thing. Its not too difficult.

Translate in Igbo
worm
padlock
high heel shoe
train
foreign currency
park
romance

@Skybeauty
worm=okpo
padlock=igodo
high heel shoe=lekwa m ikpom shoe/kapusu
Train=Kuzie
Foreign currency=Ego oyibo/ego obodo ozo
Park=aaaama egwuregwu
Romance=nmekota ihunaya.

high heel shoe - koi koi.
Park - Ohia izu ike

ezeagu:

high heel shoe - koi koi.
Park - Ohia izu ike

High heel shoe--Agbagha (as in Etiti and Nsu areas).
Park-Mbara.

In Igbo

Nation
National
International
Card (as in travel card)
Travel
Paint
Pram
Table
Keyboard
Letters (of the alphabet)
Heater

Nation - Ala (name of place)
National - Nke Ala
International - Nke gbasara ala di iche iche
Card (travel card) - Akwukwo Njem
Travel - Njem
Paint - Amama
Pram - ??
Table - Agada
Keyboard - Piano or Typing Unit?
Letters (of the alphabet) - . . .
Heater - Nkpomoku

^^^How do you get these names? Are they conventional??

ChinenyeN:

Nation - Ala (name of place)
National - Nke Ala
International - Nke gbasara ala di iche iche
Card (travel card) - Akwukwo Njem
Travel - Njem
Paint - Amama
Pram - ??
Table - Agada
Keyboard - Piano or Typing Unit?
Letters (of the alphabet) - . . .
Heater - Nkpomoku

Baby walker, keyboard for typing.

Lightwalk, those words are commonplace in my house. The only one that is a rather recent coinage is "Amama".

Ezeagu:
Pram - Ugbonwa
Keyboard - I know someone to have translated it to "oyorompiaka" ("collection [bunch] of keys [buttons]"-- literal translation).

I think paint is 'Uli'

If you prefer that, then yeah. That works to, but in my mind, I see "uri" as being more synonymous with "cosmetics" than just simply "paint", but that's just me. My mom also prefers to use "uri" when talking about "paint".

Shapes:
Circle - Gburu Gburu
Oval - Bọrọ Bọrọ
Triangle - Ọnụatọ (I guess. . ) -- (Ọnụ from the phrase "ịkpakọta ọnụ" -- "to collect/bring to a point"
Square - Nhataọnụanọ (I guess. .) -- (Ọnụ from the phrase "ịkpakọta ọnụ" -- "to collect/bring to a point"
Cylinder - [EDIT - better translation] Okpokoro
Sphere - Ọkpụrụkpụ (more like 'spherical', but it still works as 'sphere' or 'ball' depending on how you use it) or Ogbe (maybe)
----- I guess there is an Igbo word for 'ball' after all (although, dialectal).

I couldn't get all shapes, but at least I tried. All the above (with the exception of Triangle and Square) are dialectal because I simply don't know the general Igbo variants (if there are any). I'll also probably end up throwing out the translations for triangle and square, anyway. They doesn't associate well, in my mind.

Now I know why the Igbo vocabulary is so unconventional

Sorry, Lightwalk. If I knew the general Igbo variants, I would have posted those instead, but I'm not conversant with general Igbo.

Someone please translate rape for me in all the three languages?