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bato
BA-to
everybody
French: tout le monde
Bato nyonso bayei.
Everybody came.
Tout le monde est venu.
Everybody — the whole gathering, no one left out. From bato (people), "bato nyonso" is everyone. The phrase carries the communal spirit of a culture where an event belongs to the whole compound, not a chosen few.
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