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soo

noun

one hundred shillings.

Soo is recorded for one hundred shillings in Nairobi Sheng.

Origins

The word’s earlier history is still under review.

  1. Youth Health and Psychosocial Support Program, Guide to Key Resources for Psychosocial Welfare of LGBT Youth in Nairobi (2015), p. 7, Communication.

    One hundred shillings in Nairobi Sheng.

  2. Chege Githiora, Sheng: peer language, Swahili dialect or emerging Creole? (2002), p. 181.

    Soo is also recorded with the gloss hundred.

Examples

  1. Nina soo.

    I have one hundred shillings.

  2. Una soo?

    Do you have one hundred shillings?

  3. Nahitaji soo.

    I need one hundred shillings.

  4. Bei ni soo.

    The price is one hundred shillings.

  5. Nimelipa soo.

    I have paid one hundred shillings.

  6. Nimetuma soo.

    I have sent one hundred shillings.

  7. Nimepata soo.

    I have received one hundred shillings.

  8. Nauli ni soo.

    The fare is one hundred shillings.

  9. Chenji ni soo.

    The change is one hundred shillings.

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