What it means
- rụọ Work and study
- do, make, or workUse it with ọrụ to talk about doing work. What follows says which work.
- ruo Preposition and verb
- until / up to / reachMarks the point something runs to: ‘ruo mgbe ọ kwụsịrị’ - until it stops; ‘iri abụọ ruo iri atọ’ - from twenty to thirty.
How to say it
Say it as rụ-ọ. Keep dotted ụ and dotted ọ distinct across the vowel boundary.
Igbo is tonal, so pitch can change a word’s meaning. The marks above show this reading. The recording is a native speaker.
rụọ in a sentence
- Rụọ ọrụ ahụ.Do that work.
- Ọ bụrụ na mmiri zoo, anyị ga-echere ruo mgbe ọ kwụsịrị.If it rains, we will wait until it stops.
- Ruo mgbe ahụ, anyị ga-edekọ ọdịiche ahụ kama ikwu na otu akụkọ bụ eziokwu.Until then, we will record the difference rather than claim that one account is the truth.