kugeraho
koo-geh-RAH-hoh
How to say it
Kinyarwandakugerahokoo-geh-RAH-hoh
Englishto achieve, to reach; to attain
Frenchatteindre, réaliser, parvenir à
Meaning
To reach a goal or a result one has been working toward, or to arrive at a point. Icyo nshaka kugeraho means what I want to achieve.
Good to know
Kugera, to arrive, with the ending ho, there. The goal is often replaced by a pronoun inside the verb: tuzabigeraho, we will achieve it; ibyo twagezeho, what we have achieved.
Examples
- Twizeye ko umwaka utaha tuzabigeraho.We are sure we will achieve it next year.
- Ibyo twagezeho byose tubikesha ubufatanye.Everything we have achieved we owe to working together.
- Icyo yifuzaga kugeraho cyari ukuba umuganga.What he wanted to achieve was to become a doctor.
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