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Meaning of to | Babel Free

Verb CEFR C2

Definitions

  1. to arrange, to line up
  2. to talk incessantly; to gossip
  3. to be enough, to be worthy, to be sufficient, to amount to
  4. to reach up to
  5. to urinate
  6. to follow behind, to follow suit
  7. to hop, jump
  8. to take or draw out a measured quantity of something
  9. to touch lightly
  10. to provoke, to tease
  11. to guide, to train, to nurture, to raise
  12. to be straight, to be on a straight line
  13. to be proper or appropriate to do
  14. to be lasting, to last
  15. to order, to put things in order
  16. to be comparable to
  17. to be visible, to be comprehensible
  18. to trace
  19. to taste
  20. to tap
  21. to have a long-life, to be long-lived
  22. to become ordered, to become arranged

Examples

“Ẹjọ́ kúwe é tò”

What are you gossiping about?

“gíga a rẹ̀ẹ́ tó erin”

His tallness is comparable to an elephant

“ọwọ́ mi kò tó o”

My hand does not reach it

“olè níí mọ ẹsẹ̀ olèé tọ̀ lórí àpáta”

Only a thief can trace the footprints of a thief on a rock

“tọ bí ọ̀pọ̀lọ́”

Hop like a frog

“tọ́ ọmọ rẹ kí wọ lè ní ìsinmi”

Train your child so that you can have rest

“ó tọ́ kí a lọ kí wọn”

It is proper to go and greet them

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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