What gara means
- gara Past verb
- went / passedPast tense of 'ga' (go) ('Obi gara ahịa' = Obi went to the market).
How to say it
Say it as ga-ra. 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.
gara in a sentence
- Obi gara ahịa.Obi went to the market.
- Obi gara ahịa, ma Amaka nọ n'ụlọ.Obi went to the market, but Amaka stayed at home.
- N'oge gara aga, otu nwaanyị bi n'akụkụ osimiri.Long ago, a woman lived beside a river.