wear

Pronunciation (Yadda ake faɗi)

Homophones

• ware
• where (in accents with the wine-whine merger)

Verb

Plain form wear

Third person singular wears

Simple past wore

Past participle worn

Present participle wearing

1. (transitive) When you wear something, you put it on your body and cover your body with it. <> saka ko sanya abu kamar tufafi a jiki. ɗaura.

   I don't wear shoes on my feet when I am inside. <> Ban sa takalmi a ƙafa ta idan ina ciki.

   She wore a red dress. <> Ta saka wata jsutura ja.

    wear minimal clothing. [1] <> suna sanya guntayen tufafi. [2]

2. (transitive & intransitive) When something wears, it gets damaged, over time. <> lalacewar abu.

   The car was worn from ten years of hard driving.

   My best leather shoes wore out from all the walking.

   The young girl wore her mother down.

Noun

Singular wear

Plural wears

1. Things show wear after being used for a long time.

   The old school was starting to show wear after one hundred years.

Google translation of wear

Sawa, sa.

1. (verb) sa <> put, place, affix, clothe, grade, wear; ci <> eat, succeed, merge, wear;