pay attention

Verb

Plain form (yanzu) pay attention

3rd-person singular (ana cikin yi) pays attention

Past tense (ya wuce) paid attention

Past participle (ya wuce) paid attention

Present participle (ana cikin yi) paying attention

1. (idiomatic) (intransitive) To attend; to be attentive; to focus one's attention. <> maida hankali kan wani abu, kula, lura da.

   They don't pay (much) attention to their kids. <> ba su mai da hankali sosai akan ‘ya’yansu.

Synonyms

• (sense: to attend) give heed, pay heed, take heed.