strike

(verb) doki/duka
(noun) yaji e.g. yajin aiki, yajin cin abinci (hunger strike)

Pronunciation

• IPA: /stɻaɪk/

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Verb

Plain form strike

Third person singular strikes

Simple past struck

Past participle struck

Present participle striking

1. (transitive) When you hit or attack something, you strike it. <> doki, yi wa duka, buga. kai hari.

   "why did you strike him?" <> "mḕ ya sâ ka dṑkē shì?"

2. When an idea (or lighting) strikes you, it occurs to you suddenly or with force. <> tunanin abu nan da nan. faɗowar abu.

   "an idea struck him" <> "wata dàbārā̀ tā fāɗō masà"

   "she was struck by lightning" <> "àrādù tā fāɗō matà"

3. to strike a match <> kunna wuta ko tada ashana. ƙyastà/ƙyattà àshānā.
4. "they struck up a friendship" <> "àbṑtā tā ƙùllu tsàkāninsù"
5. When a clock rings a bell (see also ring a bell) to tell you the time, the clock strikes the time.

   "the clock struck" <> "àgōgo yā yi ƙàrarrawā"

Plain form (yanzu) strike

3rd-person singular (ana cikin yi) strikes

Past tense (ya wuce) struck

Past participle (ya wuce) stricken

Present participle (ana cikin yi) striking

1. A disease can strike a person. That person is stricken with disease.

   The child was stricken with a serious blood disease.

2. When you strike a part from a document, it is stricken from the document. <> kashe abu ko soke rubutu daga takarda.
   • Synonym: cancel

   "strike a name off a list" <> "kashè sūnā dàgà jērìn sūnā̀yē"

   The errors were stricken from the dictionary.

3. When bad luck strikes you, you are stricken with bad luck.

Usage Notes

Most of the time the past participle of “strike” is “struck.” The exceptions are that you can be stricken with guilt, a misfortune, a wound or a disease; and a passage in a document can be stricken out. The rest of the time, stick with “struck.” This rule does not seem to be authoritative. The past participle is stricken.

When dealing with the verb "to strike" in a labour union context, the use of the past participle "struck" sounds awkward at best, and is confusing. If you write "the union struck three times since the 1970s" the reader is left to wonder "struck what?- a deal? or something else?". In such situations the use of one of the following locutions is most often used: "went on strike", "took strike action" to express the simple past.

Noun

Singular strike

Plural strikes

1. (countable) When a group of people stop working to improve or defend their working conditions or pay, they go on strike. <> yajin aiki
   • Synonym: walkout
   1. Every secretary at the company went on strike for better pay.
   2. Students take protests against ASUU strike to National Assembly [1]
   3. "they are on strike again" <> "sun sākè yājī̀"
   4. "hunger strike" <> "yājìn cîn àbinci" [2]
2. hari <> an attack.

   "pre-emptive strike" <> "harìn shàmmā̀cē"

3. horo <> training

   If you get 3 strikes within 90 days, your channel will be terminated.
   Idan kun sami horo har sau 3 a cikin kwanaki 90, za'a rufe tashar.

4. gargaɗi, dabaibayi <> warning

   Copyright strikes are different from Content ID claims.
   Gargaɗin haƙƙin mallaka daban ya ke da iƙirarin Content ID.