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Igbo word

abalị

In Igbo, abalị means night / nighttime. Hear it spoken by a native Igbo speaker, and read it in real sentences.

What abalị means

abalị Time and noun
night / nighttimeThe night or hours of darkness (n'abalị = at night).

How to say it

Say it as á-bà-lị̀. Keep every written vowel clear, including dotted vowels, without adding an English stress pattern.

Igbo is a tonal language, so the pitch of a word carries meaning. The spelling above keeps the marks the app teaches, and the recording is a native speaker, not a machine voice.

abalị in a sentence

  • abalị ọmagood night
  • N'abalị, m na-arahụ ụra.At night, I go to sleep.
  • N'abalị, osimiri chekwara aha ndị gafere n'akụkụ ya.At night, the river kept the names of those who passed beside it.
  • Anyị na-agụ akwụkwọ kwa ụbọchị, mana anyị anaghị agụ akwụkwọ n'abalị.We read every day, but we do not read at night.