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kobuka
koh-boo-ka
break
French: casser / briser
Kobuka mibeko ezali mabe.
Breaking the rules is bad.
Enfreindre les règles, c'est mal.
To break — the verb of the slipped hand and the broken word. Kobuka is the infinitive "to break or snap" — a pot, a stick, a promise. To kobuka mibeko — break the rules — is the social fracture; both kinds of breaking the same word names.
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