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Igbo word

onye

In Igbo, onye means person. Hear it spoken by a native Igbo speaker, and read it in real sentences.

What onye means

onye First contact
personUse it for a person: onye ọbịa is a guest. At the front of a question the same word also asks who.

How to say it

Say it as o-nye. Keep ny together in the second syllable.

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.

onye in a sentence

  • onye athis person
  • ọrụ onye ọbịathe guest's role
  • Onye ka ị bụ?Who are you?
  • Onye bụ nke a?Who is this?