If you're reading this, chances are you've already met our enigmatic friend, the verb 'To Be'. If you haven't, go back to Grammar 3, and check him out, then come back here.
This post is about the verb To Be's most common manifestation, the "Ọọ" form. Specifically, Ọọ is a form of the "Ibụ" variant of the verb "To Be".
The "Ọọ" form is a form of the verb To Be that means "It is" or "It was"
It is the simplest way to make a sentence in Igbo and really really easy.
The form is "Ọọ XYZ" where XYZ is any word.
It translates to "It is XYZ." or "It was XYZ."
Okay, let's try it out.
In the last post, we looked at some common Igbo nouns that are encountered in every day speech.
We'll use three of them in our examples below.
Listen Mili - Water
Listen Afia - Market
Listen Nwoke - Man
Examples:
Listen Ọọ mili - It is water / It was water
Listen Ọọ nwoke - It is a man / It was a man | It is men / It was men
Listen Ọọ afia - It is a market / It was a market
It's that easy!
Just put Ọọ before any word to form a sentence.
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