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# {{plural}} A company's '''books''', are its money records. | # {{plural}} A company's '''books''', are its money records. | ||
#: ''An outside accountant kept the '''books''' and signed the checks until he joined the company.'' | #: ''An outside accountant kept the '''books''' and signed the checks until he joined the company.'' | ||
== Verb == | |||
{{verb|book}} | |||
# {{transitive}} If you book something or someone, you [[reserve]] them for a certain time. <> '''kama wuri''' (kamar a jirgi, otel) {{synonyms|engage|order|reserve}} | |||
#: ''I want to '''book''' a hotel room for tomorrow night.'' | |||
#: ''I can '''book''' tickets for the concert next week.'' | |||
# {{transitive}} {{cx|law}} If you book someone, you someone officially put their name in police records for a crime. <> kama mutum da laifin karya doka {{synonyms|record}} | |||
#: ''The police '''booked''' him for driving too fast.'' | |||
=== Related words === | |||
* [[booking]] | |||
Revision as of 15:39, 28 October 2016
Noun
- (countable) A book is a lot of paper joined together with writing and pictures printed on them for you to read or write in.
- I borrow books from the library, and keep them in a bookcase.
- (countable) A book is a group of stamps, matches, tickets, etc., held together inside a paper cover.
- (plural) A company's books, are its money records.
- An outside accountant kept the books and signed the checks until he joined the company.
Verb
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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 book something or someone, you reserve them for a certain time. <> kama wuri (kamar a jirgi, otel)
- I want to book a hotel room for tomorrow night.
- I can book tickets for the concert next week.
- (transitive) (law) If you book someone, you someone officially put their name in police records for a crime. <> kama mutum da laifin karya doka
- Synonym: record
- The police booked him for driving too fast.