What osisi means
- osisi Nature and noun
- tree / wood / fruit treeA tree or its timber ('mkpụrụ osisi' = fruit, lit. seed of the tree).
How to say it
Say it as ò-sì-sì. 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.
osisi in a sentence
- mkpụrụ osisifruit
- Achọrọ m ịzụta mkpụrụ osisi atọ.I want to buy three pieces of fruit.
- Mgbe ọ rutere n’ụwa, ọ gwara nwunye Mbe, “Di gị kwuru ka ị chịkọta nkume, osisi na ihe siri ike n’ala.”When he got back to earth, he told Tortoise’s wife, “Your husband said you should gather stones, wood and other hard things on the ground.”