What nwa means
- nwa People and noun
- child / offspringA child ('nwa akwụkwọ' = student, lit. child of the book/paper).
How to say it
Say it as nwá. 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.
nwa in a sentence
- nwa ahụthat child
- Ị bụ nwa akwụkwọ?Are you a student?
- Ákwá nwa ahụ kwụsịrị mgbe nne ya bịara.The child's crying stopped when the mother arrived.