What mbe means
- mbe Noun / story character
- tortoiseTortoise, commonly used as a character type in Igbo storytelling.
How to say it
Say it as mbe. 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.
mbe in a sentence
- N'otu mgbede, Mbe hụrụ akpa ji n'akụkụ ụzọ.One evening, Tortoise found a bag of yams beside the road.
- Mbe weghachiri ya akpa ahụ, ndị obodo wee too ezi omume ya.Tortoise returned the bag to her, and the community praised his good conduct.
- Mbe kpọrọ ndị enyi ya ka ha nyere ya aka ịchọta onye nwe ya.Tortoise called his friends to help him find its owner.