guca

How to say it

Meaning

to cut or sever something, or to pass through a place.

Good to know

An extremely productive root used in many idioms (guca mu ijambo 'to interrupt'); the plain sense is 'cut' or 'pass through'.

Examples

• Aragica igiti.He is cutting the tree.
• Uruzi ruraca mu gishanga.The river passes through the marsh.
• Ntiyagombye kuca mu ijambo ryanje.He shouldn't have cut into my speech.
• Twaciye mu murima wabo.We passed through their field.

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