Meaning of se | Babel Free

Definitions

1. to break; to snap
2. to thatch
3. to be poverty-stricken; to be destitute
4. to offend
5. to happen
6. to originate from; to emerge from
7. to do
8. to disturb, affect
9. to condense
10. to sieve
11. to cook
    transitive
12. to block; to shut
    transitive
13. to sprain
14. to sin
15. to manifest; to come to pass
16. to make
17. to boil
    transitive
18. to miss
    transitive
19. to fold
20. to gush out; to teem out
21. to curse; to swear

Examples

“Ó se ọbẹ̀ ilá.”

He cooked okra soup.

“Mi ò mọ ẹyin ín sè.”

I don't know how to boil eggs.

“Wọ́n sé fèrèsé náà.”

They blocked that window.

“Òkúta tí ó jù sé ihò.”

The rock she threw missed the hole.

“Mi ò fẹ́ ṣe nǹkan kan”

I don't want to do anything

“Wọ́n máa ń fi igi ṣe ilẹ̀kùn”

They usually use wood to make doors

“Àìsàn ń ṣe mí”

Sickness is disturbing me

“Kí l'ó ń ṣe ọ́?”

What's wrong with you?

“Ó fẹsẹ̀ ṣẹ́”

He sprained his leg

“Ikán ń ṣẹ́ láti ilẹ̀ sísán”

Termites are teeming from the cracked earth

“Ọmọlúwàbí kò gbọdọ̀ ṣẹ́ èpè”

A good person mustn't spew curses

“Wọ́n máa ń tún ààfin Ọ̀yọ́ ṣẹ́ lọ́dọọdún Bẹẹrẹ”

The palace of Oyo is rethatched every Beere festival

“Ìṣẹ́ ti ṣẹ́ ọ̀tá wa.”

Poverty has afflicted our enemies.

“O ti ṣẹ̀ wá, o dẹ̀ ti já wa kulẹ̀.”

You have done us wrong and let us down.

“A ò tíì kófá nílẹ̀, gbogbo ẹ̀ ti ń ṣẹ.”

We haven't packed the Ifa divination paraphernalia from the ground, and everything's already manifesting.

“Ibo ni wọ́n ti ṣẹ̀ wá?”

Where do they originate from?

CEFR level