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Lesson 4 of 10

Counting to ten in Yoruba

One to ten, for prices, platforms, rooms and how many beers. Play the ten Yoruba words against the clock, with a note on how locals really use each one after every answer. All ten are written out below.

Tinubu Square in Lagos, Nigeria
Counting to ten
10 words · 20 seconds each · 8 of 10 to pass
What it meansHow to say it
Jeremy Weate from Abuja, Nigeria, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

All 10 Yoruba phrases in this lesson

Ọ̀kanOH-kan
One
MéjìMEH-jee
Two
Mẹ́taMEH-ta
Three
Mẹ́rinMEH-rin
Four
Márùn-únMAH-roon oon
Five
Mẹ́fàMEH-fa
Six
MéjeMEH-jeh
Seven
Mẹ́jọMEH-joh
Eight
Mẹ́sàn-ánMEH-san an
Nine
Mẹ́wàáMEH-waa
Ten

Where Yoruba is spoken

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