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nnaku

Luganda → English

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Meaning

e- always plur. (n/n) trouble; sorrow, sadness, eky'ennaku, unfortunately. Ennaku zaamulaba. He had trouble. Troubles came upon him. Ennaku zinzimbyeko akayu. 1 have nothing but trouble. I am up to my neck in trouble, lit. troubles have built a little house on me. cf. -naku, obunaku, omunaku, nakuwala.

nnaku, e- always plur. (n/n) trouble; sorrow, sadness, eky'ennaku, unfortunately. Ennaku zaamulaba. He had trouble. Troubles came upon him. Ennaku zinzimbyeko akayu. 1 have nothing but trouble. I am up to my neck in trouble, lit. troubles have built a little house on me. cf. -naku, obunaku, omunaku, nakuwala.

Related Words
nakuno see nnakuno. nga (low tone) particle used: 1) as the introductory element in the second of two closely related clauses. The corresponding English m nnaka e- (n/n) small edible termite common in Bulemeezi County, cf. akanakanaka. nnakabanda (la) kind of sweet potato. Olu- buto lwali lunkuba nnakabanda olw'enjala. My stomach was grumbling because of hunger. nnakabinyi (la) kind of cooking banana. nnakabirye (la) second stripping of cloth from the barkcloth tree; second generation muzzukulu nnakabirye, great-grandchild. cf. -biri, See also omusala, nnakasatwe. nnakabululu (la) kind of plantain common in Buddu. nnakacaacaali (la) kind of bitter cassava which often makes people giddy; fig• something likely to cause trouble/danger. nnakafuga (la) rare domineering woman. cf. fuga. nnakagongo with the -a of rel. descriptive of a type of pattern in the binding line of ceiling reeds. nnakakaaga (la) the constellation of the Pleiades. nnakakongo (la) kind of plantain which is characteristically long and pointed.