imply

nufa, nuna a fakaice

Verb

Plain form (yanzu) imply

3rd-person singular (ana cikin yi) implies

Past tense (ya wuce) implied

Past participle (ya wuce) implied

Present participle (ana cikin yi) implying

1. (transitive) If you imply something, you mean it, but you don't say it directly. <> nufa ko faɗin abu ba tare da faɗa ba kai tsaye, nuna a fakaice.

   What he said implied that he wanted to come. <> Zancensa ya nuna a fakaice yana son zuwa.

   A cikin fina-finansu sukan nuna a fakaice suna goyon bayan wani dan takara ko wata jam’iyyar siyasa. [1]

   By saying I should exercise more, she implied that I'm fat.

   What does it imply about him if he uses bad language all the time?

Synonyms

• suggest (shawarta)

Related words

• implication (nufi)
• implicit

Google translation of imply

Yana nufin, nufa.

1. (verb) nufa <> address, aim, imply, intend, mean;