What chi means
- chi Noun and time
- day / daylight / one's personal spiritThe day or daylight in greetings ('Ka chi foo' = good night, till daybreak; 'Ị bọọla chi' = good morning); also one's personal guiding spirit in Igbo cosmology.
How to say it
Say it as chí. 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.
chi in a sentence
- Ka chi foogood night
- Ị bọọla chigood morning
- Ị bọọla chi, nne.Good morning, Mum.
- Ị bọọla chi, kedu ka ị mere?Good morning, how are you doing?