HOW TO USE THIS URHOBO TO ENGLISH DICTIONARY.

URHOBO - ENGLISH dictionary by Anthony Obakpọnọvwẹ Ukere B.A. (HONS) Linguistics (UNIBEN),ANIPR.

Parts of Speech Urhobo words can be classified according to the function they have in the sentence. The following table gives the abbreviations potentially used in the dictionary with short explanations;

a. Adjective Describes a noun .

adv. Adverb Qualifies a verb .

aux. Auxiliary Added to a verb to modify it, like a tense-marker.

coll. Collective Used to describe a collection of discrete objects .

conj. Conjunction A word used to join two or more nouns, verbs or clauses.

dem. Demonstrative Words used to point out something. 'this', 'that' etc.

excl. Exclamation Greetings or expressions that do not form part of an ordinary sentence.

exp. Expression Idiomatic expression.

id. Ideophone Word that describes a sound, appearance or sensation, usually reduplicated and functioning as an adverb or adjective.

int. Interrogative Question words .

n. Noun Refers to things,objects etc.num. Numeral Number. obj. Object Form when a pronoun is the object of a sentence. part. Particle Short words added to complete the sentence.

p.n. Proper Name A name of a person or object; always capitalised .prep. Preposition A word positioning nouns or verbs in time or space.

pron. Pronoun A word that stands for a noun .

v. Verb Describes action. v.i. Intransitive A verb with no object .

Verbv.n. Verbal Noun A noun formed directly from a verb to express a state of being.

v.t. Transitive verb A verb with an object .
How to use this Dictionary:




For Urhobo to English: Locate the Urhobo alphabet that contains the Urhobo word you whish to translate to English. Click on the page and search. ( if you are using an opera mimi browser, you can make your search easier with the 'find in page' tool of your browser).


For English to Urhobo:

Just scroll down and click on the "view web version". It will show you almost all the posts use the "find in page" tool of your browser to locate the English word you wish to translate.
If you can't find it in the first page, click the second.

( You can also you the blogger search tool at the upper part of the home page, when you turn to web view)



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