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kosomba
ko-SO-mba
to buy
French: acheter
Nasombi mampa na zando.
I bought bread at the market.
J'ai achete du pain au marche.
Kosomba — to buy. The everyday market verb that runs through every Congolese household budget: kosomba mampa (buy bread), kosomba bilei (buy food), kosomba elamba (buy cloth). Pairs with koteka (to sell) in the rhythm of zando life. A mother sending a child on a market errand says "kende kosomba" — go buy — and the small mission begins.
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