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ebandeli
eh-ba-ndeh-lee
beginning
French: le début / le commencement
Ebandeli ya mosala ezali pasi.
The beginning of the work is hard.
Le début du travail est difficile.
Beginning — the hard, hopeful first stretch. Ebandeli is the beginning, from kobanda, to start. "Ebandeli ya mosala ezali pasi" — the start of the work is hard — but every road, the proverb knows, has its ebandeli.
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