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#{{transitive}} If you '''cross''' something, you go from one side of it to the other side. | #{{transitive}} If you '''cross''' something, you go from one side of it to the other side. | ||
# | #:''On Sunday evening, [[zebras]] '''[[cross]]''' the road as a motorcyclist waits in Kimana Sanctuary in Kenya. [https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-56443644]'' <br> Wasu jakunan dawa a yammacin ranar Lahadi suna '''[[tsallaka]]''' titi tare da tilasta wa masu mota dakatawa sai sun '''tsallaka''' [https://www.bbc.com/hausa/labarai-56456413] | ||
#{{transitive}} If you '''cross''' something, you put one part over another [[perpendicular]]ly. | #{{transitive}} If you '''cross''' something, you put one part over another [[perpendicular]]ly. | ||
#: ''She '''crossed''' her [[ankle]]s: she put one foot on the other side of the other foot.'' | #: ''She '''crossed''' her [[ankle]]s: she put one foot on the other side of the other foot.'' |
Latest revision as of 15:51, 20 March 2021
(verb) tsallaka, ƙetare, gifta
(noun) kuros
Pronunciation
Verb
Plain form (yanzu) |
3rd-person singular (ana cikin yi) |
Past tense (ya wuce) |
Past participle (ya wuce) |
Present participle (ana cikin yi) |
- (transitive) If you cross something, you go from one side of it to the other side.
- (transitive) If you cross something, you put one part over another perpendicularly.
- She crossed her ankles: she put one foot on the other side of the other foot.
- (transitive) If you cross someone, you do something that the person does not like.
- Don't cross me. Make sure to agree with me.
- (intransitive) If you cross, you go in a path that will intersect with someone else's path.
- Boats crossing from starboard have right-of-way.
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Noun

- (countable) A cross is a figure made of two straight lines or bars that intersect each other such that at least one of them bisects the other. <> kuros.
- In Christianity, the death of Jesus is represented by a cross.
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Adjective
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Comparative |
Superlative |
- Someone who is cross is angry or annoyed. <> mai fushi [3]
- Jill spoke to me rudely because she was cross.
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Bargery's definition of cross,
-- over, haya; haye; k'etara; k'etare.
-- legged, sitting, tamatela, zaman har'de.
-- questioning, ta'annuti.