ụmụ: Children of

Level 2

ụmụ + noun: children of, those of.

How It Works

The word ụmụ works like the plural of nwa “child”.

Phrase	Meaning
ụmụ m	my children
ụmụ akwụkwọ	students
ụmụ nwanyị	girls, women
O nwere ụmụ abụọ.	He or she has two children.

Notice that “students” is literally “children of books”. A number follows the whole phrase: ụmụ akwụkwọ anọ “four students”. With a pronoun, the owner follows: ụmụ ya “his or her children”. The word has no singular form of its own, so for one child use nwa.

Examples (4)

ụmụ m
my children
M shows the owner.
ụmụ akwụkwọ
students
Children of books.
ụmụ nwanyị
girls, women
Children of women.
O nwere ụmụ abụọ.
He or she has two children.
A number after ụmụ.

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ụmụ: Children ofLevel 2

Learn This First

Ụmụ is the plural of nwa, so nwa comes first.

Man, Woman, Child: nwoke, nwanyị, nwaMan, Woman, Child
Know nwa, because ụmụ is its plural: ụmụ akwụkwọ “students”.
Level 1

Words in This Pattern

ụmụụmụ akwụkwọ

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