What it means
- otu Market and movement
- oneUse it before the thing you count: otu ụlọ, one house. Every other number comes after the thing.
- otú Grammar and connector
- how / the way in whichManner or way in which something happened ('otú obodo ahụ si gbanwee').
How to say it
Say it as o-tu. Use two even open syllables.
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.
otu in a sentence
- otu ụlọone house
- iri na otueleven
- Ọ bụ maka otu?Is it for one?
- elekere iri na otueleven o'clock