scold

Verb

Plain form (yanzu) scold

3rd-person singular (ana cikin yi) scolds

Past tense (ya wuce) scolded

Past participle (ya wuce) scolded

Present participle (ana cikin yi) scolding

1. (transitive) When you scold someone, you angrily tell them that they are doing something bad. <> kyara, tsawata wa, (idiomatic) ja kunne, yi wa wani faɗa.

   his mother scolded him for hitting his sister <> da ya daki ƙanwarsa sai uwarsu ta kyare shi.

2. (abusively) zaga / zagi

   she scolded the child thoroughly <> ta yi ta zagin yaro sosai.

Synonyms

• caution (yi wa taka tsantsan)
• rebuke
• chastise

Google translation of scold

Tsawatawa, tsawata.

1. (verb) yi tsawa <> scold;