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.