₦airaland Forum

EzePromoe:
[color=#DC143C]This particular phrase looks somehow o. I don't think there's any replacement for the 'gh' sound else you will be saying another thing. BTW the word in bold translates to 'I was bitten by a frog'. [/color]

He knows it's is spelt as aghotara'm. It was explained to him earlier in the thread. He just wrote it the way it is pronounced in that axis. He is just learning. Please do not confuse him.

pashaun:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuiKY2A-UVI

@ Pashaun: Una is from the Igbo language (formerly known as Ibo or Eboe) and means, You.

Do you guys (I am assuming you are Gullah) eat Okro which is the Igbo name for Lady Fingers?

Ngalaba1:
Little did I know until I went for a burial this past Christmas Holiday in Igboland. I thought having money was enough to make burial happen as people come to eat and drink basically in this part of the world during burials. The ‘’Umu-Ada’’ and Co. were so problematic and difficult that I was very angry to comprehend their issues. They fine you for anyone passing by without greeting those dug the grave ‘’Daalu Oru’’ meaning- ‘’well done’’. They fine the children for building beautiful houses in thier father’s compound/land (where the mother lived and took care of obviously); this fine is because you did not build any special house for your mother with a modern kitchen too....and they ask you to build it before she is buried oo on the day of the burial!? Like seriously? Thank God everything went well eventually; they had everything provided for them but were unsatisfied. They claimed it was their last opportunity to be appreciated since their sister, daughter, niece/nephew had embarked on a journey of no return.
This nasty experience led me to asking more questions from those who live in the village and I discovered it is same in all Igbo culture. In fact, I thought it was only marrying in Igbo land that was hectic, burial is twice hectic and may be more difficult especially when you are based outside of the eastern territories- ‘’Abroad People’’ as they refer to those not living in the eastern Nigeria.
I heard a shocking story of how a woman whom I knew as a growing child those days in the village died sometime in 2015 and how the casket had to be changed as the burial did not hold on the date scheduled, neither did it hold the day after. Hence, Caskets had to be changed because they could not drive the long distance to return her to the mortuary or were thinking the issues would be resolved sooner than it had taken. WhAT A STRESS THE CHILDREN MUST HAVE SUFFERED!!
WHAT HAPPENED? Their mother was not properly married according to tradition. He found her somewhere and they began living together and they began bearing children. She gave the man 7 BOYS, ONE GIRL! It was all good, the children were grown and living well, until the woman died. Obviously, in Igboland you CANNOT bury a woman’s corpse without the knowledge of the family, IF YOU LOVE YOURSELF. That was the genesis of the revelation. The woman’s family (immediate and extended) said they were not aware their daughter was even married, let alone having children. How can their daughter be down with sickness or even that she went somewhere and has refused to return. The Man had to marry her in the FULL traditional way IN DEATH and of course was made to Kiss her Corpse as a newly married in death!! Then they went on to burying the deceased grandmother, mother and father who died donkey years ago before they could bury their mother . I was also told that if a man/woman dies, you dare not inform the family directly of the news, you keep beating about the bush until the message is received. If you break it directly, you would explain what killed the son/daughter to them and this is a VERY SERIOUS MATTER!!
This is a First hand information of what happened in my State in the Eastern Coast of Nigeria..
If you are living with an Igbo lady/woman and she is bearing you children, you have not married her properly just co-habitation, please; it is not just God you are sinning against, YOU MIGHT JUST BE in for something that would become complicated in future! IF THAT LADY/WOMAN dies living with you, you are in a VERY BIG TROUBLE.
Thought I should update those who might be less updated like me until I experienced it as a grown up now. Feel free to counter whatever was said if your own culture is different and you are Igbo or better still, share your knowledge about burials in Igbo Land. IGBO KWENU!! NIGERIA KWE ZU O NU!!!HIAAA!!!



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Oge ozo, che uche tupu imepe tred. Ife nu idere bu ife na nye ndi di ka Kestolove, ohere ikpari anyi

tosingcfr:
Ekele, ugbu a m na aghọta

Hope I'm making sense ?

Yes you are. You said: Greetings, now I understand.

One minute correction. You left out "ka". It should be: Ugbua ka m na aghota.

#Udo

tosingcfr:
Thanks. What would be the response if I understand? Is it awotara'm ?

Yes. Awotara'm is correct.

A= I
M/mu = Me/My
Ha/Fa/Wo = They
Yi/Gi = You

DanZubair:
O bu n'imaghi maka mkpuruokwu ndi oyibo kporo "Typographical error" A mam n'onweghi mgbe mga asukata maobu dekata ka ndi afo...

Ashi'm na igbaniri agbani. Nye'm aka.

tosingcfr:
Thanks . There is also one in Imo that sounds like "Iwotarayam". I got to hear that from mbaise

Bigfrancis22. Thanks as well. Are you familiar with mbaise?

You are welcome.

It's pronounced: Iwotara'm. There is no "ya" in the sentence.

Ghota = Understand. There are different accents. Some pronounce it as Hota, Yota and Wota (as in your example)

I = You.

Ighota? (pronounced Ihota, Iyota, Iwota) = You understand?

Ighotara? (pronounced Ihotara, Iyotara, Iwotara) = You understood?

Whenever there is an "M" at the end of a sentence it is a contraction of "mu" and means "me" or "my"

Iwotara'm= You understood me?

Radoillo:
Ano m there already. Mana oburo afa m na nairaland ka m na-aza ebe ahu. Akana m enyogodi the site enyo.

Happy New Year, to you, too. May all your prayers come true.

Ise!!!

Obudi kwa soso inyo enyo. I ya na posti kwa ka uzo n'ine na ekpo okwu

Radoillo:
Indeed. Radoillo has nothing better to do than to hide behind fake monikers and pretend to be an Igbo-speaking Hausa man, because you see, his very survival depends on convincing people that there are Hausas who speak fluent Igbo. *shakes head*

[b]FYI, that Igbo is too 'wooden' to be written by me.[/b]And I can't type a phrase in Hausa even if my life depended on it. But you are welcome to continue making assumptions like this. After all, assumptions and deliberate attempts to irritate people are things you seem to enjoy doing on this forum.

Eziokwu. Igbo yi sopiara.
DanZubair gbaniri agbani. Mana iche di ya.

Radoillo:
If telling you that I know Hausa boys in Enugu and Awka who are fluent in Igbo 'forces' you to act like a douche, then you need to do a self reexamination. You could be a douche for real.

Eziokwu!!!

Nwanne, Kedu? Happy New Year.

Inuna maka sitenu ana kpo Omambala? Biko je netuta aya.

#Udo

MorrowCaligari:
Radoillo in disguise.

In other words, Radiollo registered the ID 9 months ago and lay in wait just for the opportunity to post on this thread/ prove that there are some Hausa's that speak Igbo. Very funny thought process you have there, MorrowCaligari

Hmmm. Just thought about something. How would you say: Ife yoro ayo.

In my dialect we say: Yota ni mu akwa nu. The closest translation Yota (as far as I know) is used in place of weta(bring) when the thing to be brought is in an untidy heap (e.g a pile of dirty clothes). So in such a case, a little dragging or trailing on the floor is permissible

bigfrancis21:
In Onitsha Igbo, it could be 'I ghota?' or 'I ghotalu?'. In Onitsha Igbo, the 'gh' sound in Igbo is usually simplified to a 'y' in pronunciation that it is actually pronounced 'I yota'.

For example, fry 2 eggs in Onitsha would be 'yetelu m akwa naabo' and in central Igbo, 'ghetere m akwa abuo'. War in central Igbo would be 'agha' and Onitsha dialect as 'aya'.

If 'gh' poses a problem for you to correctly pronounce, you can always use the 'y' pronunciation instead.

Yes. I ghota is also correct. It just translates to I (You) ghota (Understand)?

@tosingcfr: aghota can be pronounced as ahota. Ghota as in Bigfrancis' post can be pronounced as Yota. So the Gh sound can be pronounced as a simple "h" or as a "Y" sound. The accents and dialects are mutually intelligible

europeangirl72:
hi, I've got Nigerian (Igbo speaking) friends who are getting married in a few days. I'd like to surprise them with saying wishes in their language. Could someone help me with this please? I'm sure it'll put a smile on their faces on this special day

What do you want to say? Tell us and then we will translate it to Igbo.

tosingcfr:
Please what is 'do you understand'?

I na aghota?

I is pronounced as E and it means, You

Na = Are

Aghota = understanding. When pronouncing it, the g is virtually silent.

Igbo is a tonal language so you tone will convey whether it's a question or a statement

scholti:
Phut,

Thanks for the post.

The 'ìhè' with the diacritic marks isn't the same as 'ihe'. 'ìhè' stands for brightness. For computer, in a previous translation, I put it as 'Igweuru', as an attempt to award it the everyday essentiality, it connotes.

What is the etymology of Ngigauwa? I feel it would be better if there is a correlation between it and the word for computer. Makes for easier learning and flow.

Fossil - nhapuochie is good, but Ozuochie is better (in my estimation). Haven't gone through the whole list. Will come back with more comments, when I do. Ji shi ike

somegirl1:

Nwanne did you get my pm?

Odi o. I nwere ike zita nu mu emailu na aezediaro@gmail.com. A chorom ka mu na Yi karia. Mbona

@ Scholti: This is great work on your part. In my opinion most are spot on except for # 49. Why would light be Ihe?

Obundu - DNA
Njefie - Error and the rest are awesome.

If Internet is Ngigauwa, what would u call a computer?

pleep:
[s] Why you take pride in pretending other people evolved from you?

First off, its not true. Second off, it it was true it would be a bad thing because things tend to improve when they evolve. "Blacks were the origin of man!"

If there was ever a race stupider than you monkeys that race is extinct. [/s]

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pleep:
[s] Why you take pride in pretending other people evolved from you?

First off, its not true. Second off, it it was true it would be a bad thing because things tend to improve when they evolve. "Blacks were the origin of man!"

If there was ever a race stupider than you monkeys that race is extinct. [:s]

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pleep:
[s]

bla bla bla bla

you are speaking English right NOW you braindead ape, let that sink in. Do you know where Nigeria would be if English was removed?
Back to the fucking jungle, you wouldn't even be able to communicate with 90% of your countrymen.[/s]

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pleep:
[s]You people have the brains of rats.

Go back and read my post again. I did not say that English should replace all the languages in Africa. I said the ethnic groups in Africa should be condensed into a lesser number of larger groups: Lingala, Hausa, Swahili, Amharic, Somali, Arabic, Yoruba and Igbo

English would replace the French, Spanish and Portuguese.

Learn to fucking read. Its like the second you monkeys see something that reminds you of whites your brain short-circuits and you cant even from a coherent argument anymore.[/s]

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