break

karya, tsage, fashe

Pronunciation

• enPR: /brāk/
• IPA: /bɹeɪk/
• SAMPA: /breIk/

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Homophones

• brake (birki, dakata)

Verb

Plain form break

Third person singular breaks

Simple past broke

Past participle broken

Present participle breaking

1. (transitive & intransitive) If you break something, you make it come apart in a way that cannot easily be put back together, usually by force. <> karya, tsage, fashe.

   The heavens almost break from above them <> sammai na kusan su tsage daga bisansu --Qur'an 42:5

Noun

Singular break

Plural breaks

1. (countable) A break is a time when something stops before starting again. <> dakatarwa. birki.

See also unbreakable

Google translation of break

Karya, hutu.

1. (noun) fashe <> break; karye <> break; lokacin hutu <> vacation, break;
2. (verb) fasa <> break, disperse, postpone; ƙarya <> break;