untu
Indefinite pronoun.

MEANING 1

is

Example of use

1.     Ulya untu atumpa  MEANING:  That one is a stupid fellow.

2.     Ulya muti untu wakosa MEANING:  That tree is a hard one

     MEANING 2 

      The one 

     Example of use

     Untu mwacilafwaya aisa MEANING The one you wanted is here


      PROVERBS 

     Uwalyo noko tee mukali: umukali untuatiila `noko aya kwi?'

      Literal translation.

Theone who killed your mother is not the cruel one, the cruel one is the one whoasks, Where has your mother gone? 

      Meaning

To make a person suffer is bad, but to makethem suffer and laugh at their suffering is even worse).   

      Bemba meaning 

     Calolaku muntu uwakuti pa menso yobe alekuwaininisha kumbali alekwamba. 

 


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