kubunga

How to say it

Meaning

to search for a buyer for something one wants to sell.

Good to know

also used of a sickness that keeps recurring (indwara irambungamwo, 'the illness keeps coming back on me') and of stirring up a quarrel; treat these as distinct senses of the same verb.

Examples

• Arabunga uwokwigura inka yiwe.He is looking for a buyer for his cow.
• Ntabunga uwoyigura, ntawushaka.He is not finding a buyer for it, no one wants it.
• Ese warabunze uwoyigura iyo nzu?Have you found a buyer for that house?
• Nzobunga uwoyigura ku musozi uwundi.I will look for a buyer for it over on the next hill.