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Chai! Ugbu a ka m ghotora

Mana jiri kwa ya nwayo na EnglIgbo gi a

Kedukwanu ka anyi ga-esi ma na i zuru ihe eji nwanyi eme ma o buru na i gwaghi anyi afo ole i di ma o bu zuko anyi foto gi?

Q: Kedu ife melu na umu nwanyi anaghi acho ikwu afo ole ha di?

i fughi m. i puro i tinye m na "suspense"

Q: Rubi, afo ole ka i di?

Rubi onye ebee ka i bu?

Kool. That gave a hell of laughter.

hau u?

ROTFLMAO

RUBI WETIN BE DAT ONE NAH?

more like "a tuoro ya nzuko?"

3. Enyemaka Ngwa - Auxilliary verb E.g. Anyi na-abia osiso (We are coming fast), Ha na-agba ya mgba okpuru (_{let Ifeoma translate this one})

Notice the hyphen used when "na" is used as an auxilliary verb

2. Njiko - Conjuction E.g. Ji na Ede bu ihe oriri (Yam and cocoyam are edible things), Nwoke ahu na nwunye ya biara ebe a (That man and his wife came here)

"na" has about 4 uses in Igbo

1. Mbuzo - preposition. Eg. Emeka bi na Legos(Emeka lives in Lagos), Ifeoma no [i]n'[/i]Awka_{n' cos "na" is following a noun begining with a vowel}

it means:
wait for me; i'm coming

Chelu: to wait

abia: to come

i think you shld register with uwandiigbo yahoo groups and take it up from there.

the Q was whether you are a student or you work?

another:Chelu m; a na m abia

the question is of 2parts. you just got 1

2nd right: where are you from?

another:
I bu nwata akwukwo ka I na-alu olu?

Okpa aku eri eri lee kwanu ka onu di ndi nwuru anwu 
He that is accumulating wealth without enjoying it should take a look at a corpse's mouse.

Onye ebee ka I bu?

onyinye2:
hmmm really?? i must have over read it. yeah it is much harder to read then to hear it being spoken.
well i guess one of yal could give me a sentence to see if i could translate.

English or Igbo sentence?

agaba123:
I m iss you = mu tufuru gi, ify chei

I ga-egbu ochi,

Ka ha judebe gi

Hapu Ifeoma. O na-acho ime ka mmadu tabie ire. 

Uwandiigbo Yahoo groups: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/uwandiigbo/?v=1&t=search&ch=web&pub=groups&sec=group&slk=1

Obele nwa na-amu ili elu, obi ga-esi ya ike
A young child that is learning to climb trees must be strong - hearted.

hmmm! This topic is now on fire

The question Jesus asked. No one could answer.

Deeje!

Okwa a si na

Ife di wolu ogoli a zuola n'afia
What a husband refused the wife is now being sold at the market

From the little I know, people are sent to the chair in America for murder not for theft, shoplifting or stealing. You can be sure that all those that burnt those people alive, one time or the other in their lives have stolen something, and they had the guts to burn people like this 

Capital punishment though will never stop people from commiting crime.

God will judge all.

The story continues…

The tortoise was given a goat. He immediately left and continued on his journey. When he got to the next town, he entered the compound of a wealthy man that had seven cows; and asked the man to allow him spend the night there. The man graciously accepted; and led tortoise’s goat to his cow stead where all the cows were. All the cows immediately got up and started hitting the goat with their horns. As the owner of the house heard the noise and came out to know what was happening, the goat cried “kpaaa kpaaa” and fell down and died.

When the tortoise saw what happened, he took hold of a rope and said he was going to hang himself, complaining that that was the only goat he had and the that the goat gave birth like chicken. i.e. in droves. The wealthy man begged the tortoise all he could but the tortoise bluntly refused and continued progressing to where he was to hang himself. When the man continued begging, the tortoise said he would accept only on one condition: that he be given one cow. The man gave him one of his cows and said, “If one does not fall into trouble on his own, his wrapper would cause him to fall into trouble” proverb.
The tortoise left as soon he was given the cow. He was now happy because he thought he was making progress.

Along the way, he saw some group of people carrying a child’s corpse and wailing deeply. Immediately he joined them and even started wailing more than the bereaved. When the wailing and grieving were over, he begged them to give him the child’s corpse and take his cow. They gave thought to his proposal and agreed that the corpse is now of no use to them. They then gave him the corpse and collected his cow.

At once, the tortoise bought nice clothes and a fine cap and adorned the child’s corpse, tied it on his back and continued on his journey. At evening, he got to another town. There he entered into the compound of one man with two grown – up daughters. He lied to the man that he and his child have been to a very distant land to minister some medicines to the people there. He asked if the man could allow them to spend the night at his house. The man again accepted. He then told the man that he was then friends with him that he is going to concoct a “get rich quick” medicine for him and another one that is called “let him that comes to kill me, kill himself”. The man was very happy. At night, the man gave them where they could lay and sleep. At midnight, the tortoise begged the man to allow him lie his child between the man’s two daughters so that they may keep it warm because the cold was much. The man accepted. The tortoise promptly went and laid the dead child between the two sisters.

At the first cockcrow, the tortoise went into the girls’ room and started shouting his child’s name: “Oguoma, Oguoma, Oguoma; Titi Titi” But there was no response because corpses do not talk. The tortoise immediately went to the man’s room and woke him up. He told the man that his child was dead; that his daughters had laid on his child and suffocated her. The tortoise cried and cried.

Shortly, a huge crowd assembled at the man’s house and they all saw that the child was dead. The two sisters were unable to deny that they killed the child. The man of the house looked up and down and was confused. He called on his gods and said that “what was greater than the cricket has been caught in it’s trap” _proverb.

The crowd unanimously decided that the man must give the tortoise one of his daughters as a compensation for the loss of his daughter. The tortoise rejoiced greatly in his heart and insisted he be given the prettier of the two sisters. He then took the girl home to the king that sent him on the mission.

He narrated to the king how he went about the task and all that happened along the way. The king then made the tortoise one of the chiefs of the land and gave him lands and money.

… the end.

Moral: Whaterver the heart of man can conceive and dream of, he can achieve.

Mbanu! Even some of these girls in the university know

O kwa a si na

Ogoli gwa di ya ndi o juru, o naghi agwa ya ndi o kwere
When a woman tells her husband those she refused sex, she does not tell him those she had sex with 

Ogoli luo di naabo, o malu nke ka mma
When a woman marries two husbands, she will know which is better

The Tortoise And A Grain Of Maize

Long, long time ago, there was a serious famine in tortoise’s town. There is scarcely any food anywhere and the little available could only be purchased by very rich individuals.
Tortoise, not being financially buoyant enough to buy food for himself and the family, started thinking of how he was going to mitigate the famine. He learnt from some people that there is food in a faraway town. Immediately he heard this, he made up his mind that, no matter the distance, he was going to get to that town and buy some food for this household.
Thus being resolute, he set out for his journey. It took the tortoise seven market days to get to his destination.

Once he got to that land, the people took him to the king because they’ve heard so much about his cunning and were naturally afraid of him. The king told him that for him to stay in their land for the duration of the famine; he (the tortoise) must perform a task first for the king. The tortoise told the king that that was not a problem; that he should just say what the task was. The king then went on and said, “I heard you a very wise man; capable of deceiving your fellow beings. I will test you to know if all I’ve heard are true. Take this grain of maize and use it obtain a wife for me this day week. If in seven days you’re unable to get me a wife, you shall be killed; but if you get me a wife, you’ll be made a chief of this land.”

On hearing on these, the tortoise was greatly troubled because a woman seeking to cause trouble for her co-wife asks her to give her some palm oil with which to eat palm fruits _{a proverb}. When he recalled how he had in the past excelled in some difficult tasks, he was comforted, saying that a task that comes at once youth came at a good time. If the grass cutter is reminded of biting, it bites. _Proverbs.

The tortoise greeted the king and embarked on his journey until he got to a certain village. It was already evening and he begged one man he met at the village square to allow him spend the night at his house. The man gave some thoughts to tortoise’s request, looked up and down and accepted for it is said that if a stranger is travelling it appears as if he does not have a home._proverb When the man accepted him, the tortoise brought out his grain of maize and showed the man. Tortoise told him that if that grain of maize was planted, it would yield enough grains to fill seven sacks. He told the man he wanted to keep the grain of maize on the frontage of the house so that the evening sun might shine on it.

Immediately he kept the grain, a big cockerel from the man’s poultry rushed and swallowed the grain. On sighting this, the tortoise shouted and was crying and grieving. The owner of the house asked him to stop crying. But the tortoise did not oblige him. The tortoise told the man that the only solution to the problem is for him to go with the cock that swallowed the grain so that he may recover his grain when the cock excreted. The man accepted this proposal.

The next day the tortoise left. When he got to the next village, he met another man and asked the man to allow him to lodge at his house because nighttime had come. The man accepted and took tortoise’s cock and kept it in his animal pen where his goats and sheep were.

At midnight the tortoise awoke and went to the animal pen. When he got there, he killed the cock with his bare hands and hurriedly went back to bed.
At dawn, it was discovered that the cock had died. He cried and cried and cried… saying that the man must compensate him with a goat. The man shouted and said “I’ve sat down at home and have sat on my scrotum; I thought it’s said: let not the visitor kill his host so that when he is going back he won’t develop a hunchback?”_proverbs

abeg to continue later…

Kai, this people don over take me o

Well done Ify. I'll give another version of this your story later

Bravo! rubi. Trust mbediogu

ifyalways:
Eche don't go so far.That song brings back memories

Unpleasant ones?

Bravo! Ify. You took that story out of my mouth.

Actually they told him about 3 unusual things that happened:

1. That a man had got pregnant

2. That yam being boiled on the fire is germinating, and that

3. Palmfruits heads had grown at the tip of omu nkwu - the 'flower' of palmtrees 

The musician - Mike Ejeagha - told part of this story in one of his songs:

Udeze nwanne m, udeze nwanne m.
Ife melu be anyi
Nwoke atulu ime
Akwu chalu n'omu
Ji siri n'ite e pue ome
Udeze na anyi anaba anaba