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buka
BU-ka
break
French: casser / briser
Mwana abuki kiti.
The child broke the chair.
L'enfant a cassé la chaise.
To break — what carelessness or force undoes. Kobuka is to break or snap — a pot, a stick, a promise. "Mwana abuki" — the child broke it — is heard often in a busy household of small hands.
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