Skip to content
Igbo word

nwaanyị

In Igbo, nwaanyị means woman / female. Hear it spoken by a native Igbo speaker, and read it in real sentences.

What nwaanyị means

nwaanyị People and gender
woman / femaleSpelling variant of 'nwanyị' (woman).

How to say it

Say it as ńwáà-ńyị̀. 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.

nwaanyị in a sentence

  • N'oge gara aga, otu nwaanyị bi n'akụkụ osimiri.Long ago, a woman lived beside a river.
  • Otu agadi nwaanyị kọwara akpa ahụ na ihe dị n'ime ya nke ọma.An elderly woman accurately described the bag and what was inside it.