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kitoko
ki-TO-ko
beautiful
French: beau / joli
Ozali kitoko.
You are beautiful.
Tu es beau.
Kitoko — beautiful, lovely. Used freely and warmly in Congolese speech: about a person, a song, a meal, a sunset, or a child's drawing. To call someone "kitoko" in Lingala is not flirtation by default — it is recognition. Mothers say it to children, friends say it to friends, strangers say it across a market stall. In a culture where beauty is named out loud, kitoko is one of the most often-spoken adjectives.
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