a- adv. openly, publicly; frankly.

be, okusaakaatira; (hair) okutuukuuma.

v., okwesigama, okwesimba ggiriza, okwesiira, okwerimba, okwekkaatiriza; (slant) okwesulika, okugonyoka.

q.v.

njogedde) v.i. & tr. speak; talk; say. kwogera ku muntu, to talk about a person, kwogera n'omuntu, to talk with a person, kwogera kaati, to speak openly/frankly, kwogera kuno na kuli, to jump from one subject to the other; to be hesitant/ doubtful in what one says, kwogera nkulu bbiri, to be two-faced/intentionally ambiguous in what one says. Oyogedde kirabika ng'ow'e- jjanga abika. You have said the obvious, lit. like a person with chronic conjunctivitis bringing news of a death. okwogera inf,

cram in; put (something) where it does not belong; impose; attribute, impute falsely. Leka kukakaatika bintu mu mmotoka. Don't force things into the car. Leka kunkakaatika kye siyogeranga. Don't attribute to me what 1 have never said.

v.tr. appl. caus. press down; wedge down; pack/cram tightly (often with the implication of adding additional material). c f. kka.

of a tree with fruit, of a person with parcels), cf. -saakaativu.

-ekakaatika (-ekakaatise) v.i. & tr. refl. force one's way into; meddle (with); usurp.

cf. saakaatira.