What pasent means
- pasent Quantifier and loanword
- percent / percentageA proportion out of a hundred ('pasent iri' = ten percent). Loanword from English.
How to say it
Say it as pa-sent. Keep every written vowel clear, including dotted vowels, without adding an English stress pattern.
Igbo is tonal, so pitch can change a word’s meaning. The marks above show this reading. The recording is a native speaker.
pasent in a sentence
- Akụkọ a na-egosi na ahịa mụbara pasent iri.This report shows that sales increased by ten percent.