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Bashkjéshkwa - Burst with foot or body

Posted in APWAD by Administrator on the May 9th, 2008

Bashkjéshkwa - Burst with foot or body

*bashkjéshkwa is an animate verb, you can only use it to describe bursting something animate, like an insect.

Ngi bashkjéshkwa o skemé - I burst that mosquito

Ngi bashkjéshkwa o ézgak - I burst that tick

Ngi bashkjéshkwa o gwakwadé - I burst that grasshopper

Cho ngi bashkjéshkwasi o mémégé - I didn’t burst that butterfly

Cho ngi bashkjéshkwasi weye - I didn’t burst anyone

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