Kí ni ìtumọ̀ "ṣíṣe"?

Assessment: JAMB UTME - Yoruba Language - 2025 Subject: Yoruba Language

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Kí ni ìtumọ̀ "ṣíṣe"?

Answer Details

Ṣíṣe is the gerund form of the verb ṣe, meaning "to do" or "to perform." Doubling the first syllable of a Yoruba verb turns it into a noun describing the act of doing that verb, so ṣíṣe literally means "the doing/performing of something," which corresponds to iṣẹ́, work or task.

A house, a right/entitlement, and seeing are unrelated meanings that do not connect to the act of doing or performing; they belong to entirely different word families in Yoruba.

When a question asks for the meaning of a reduplicated Yoruba verb form like ṣíṣe, think of the base verb it comes from and translate that action into its related noun of work or activity.

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