Sheng - English Lexicon

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daga
-dai
-dail
-dak
danse
-dara
daroo
dashboad
daso
degaga
dem
-dema
diab
diambo
dibre
dieng
diggz
digolos
dimbas
dinga

-dai1 verb

1 claim   ► -dai pesa claim money

2 (Sheng) die

3 demand   ► -dai talaka demand a divorce

4 sue

akadai inflected verb, cl. 1 Root -dai1

1 he/she claimed

2 he/she sued

3 (Sheng) he/she died

alidai1 inflected verb, cl. 1 Root -dai1

1 he/she claimed, he/she demanded   ► Alidai kwamba ni kawaida ya kila lugha kukopa au kuazima maneno. She claimed that it is normal for each language to borrow or lose/extinguish words.

2 he/she sued

3 (Sheng) he/she died

anadai1 inflected verb, cl. 1 Root -dai1

1 he/she claims

2 he/she sues

3 (Sheng) he/she dies

walidai1 inflected verb, cl. 2 Root -dai1

1 they claimed

2 they sued

3 (Sheng) they died

wanadai1 inflected verb, cl. 2 Root -dai1

1 they claim

2 they sue

3 (Sheng) they die

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This online lexicon for Sheng is based on Sarah Hillewaert's MA thesis (Ghent University, 2003). At present, only a selection of words has been reworked for this online version by Sarah Hillewaert and Gilles-Maurice de Schryver. This work in progress is being created with David Joffe's dictionary compilation software TLex, and is online since 10 May 2004.


TshwaneLex online dictionary: Version 2.0.12, 2008/05/18.