damage

lalata, dameji

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Noun

Singular damage

Plural damages

lalacewa

1. (uncountable) If something has some damage, there is something broken or hurt. <> baci, lalacewa, abu ya dena aiki.

   Their car hit a truck, but luckily there was very little damage to the car. <> motar ta daki babbar mota amma anyi sa'a bata baci da yawaba.

2. (plural only) Money that someone has to pay someone else because something was damaged or someone was hurt.

   The reason his car hit another car was that he did something wrong, so he had to pay damages to the owner of the other car.

Verb

Plain form (yanzu) damage

3rd-person singular (ana cikin yi) damages

Past tense (ya wuce) damaged

Past participle (ya wuce) damaged

Present participle (ana cikin yi) damaging

1. (transitive) If you damage something, you break or hurt it. <> lalata abu.

   All those cigarettes have damaged her health.

   The factory has caused significant damage to the local environment.