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kavu

noun

one thousand shillings.

Kavu means one thousand shillings in Sheng.

Origins

The word’s earlier history is still under review.

  1. Chege Githiora, Sheng: peer language, Swahili dialect or emerging Creole? (2002), p. 179.

    One thousand shillings in Sheng.

Examples

  1. Kavu hapa ni shilingi elfu moja.

    Kavu here means one thousand shillings.

  2. Una kavu ya kulipa nauli?

    Do you have one thousand shillings to pay the fare?

  3. Nahitaji kavu ya nauli.

    I need one thousand shillings for the fare.

  4. Bei ni kavu.

    The price is one thousand shillings.

  5. Nimelipa kavu.

    I have paid one thousand shillings.

  6. Nimetuma kavu.

    I have sent one thousand shillings.

  7. Nimepata kavu.

    I have received one thousand shillings.

  8. Nauli ni kavu.

    The fare is one thousand shillings.

  9. Chenji ni kavu.

    The change is one thousand shillings.

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