o- without the l.V.'s Lwakuna Thursday, lit. the fourth (day, olunaku). cf. -na.

until, okutuusa ku Lwokuna, until Thursday, okutuusa lwe nnadda engulu, until I regained consciousness. kutuusaawo (following a neg. finite verb), to that extent, that much. Tayimba kutuusaawo. He doesn't sing that well. He isn't that good a singer.

-na numeral stem four. Initial modifications are made according to the class of the noun to which the numeral refers. Note that nnya is used in counting as well as with plural nouns of the lu/n and n/n classes. Under certain circumstances (for which see the grammars) amakumi ana (40) is abbreviated to ana. cf. okuna, Olwokuna.