chokoleti
choh-koh-LEH-tee
How to say it
Swahilichokoletichoh-koh-LEH-tee
Englishchocolate
Frenchchocolat
Meaning
A sweet brown food made from roasted cocoa seeds with sugar and often milk, eaten as a sweet or made into a hot drink.
Good to know
N class noun, plural also chokoleti: chokoleti ya maziwa, milk chocolate; kinywaji cha chokoleti, hot chocolate. chakleti in the dictionary is an older spelling.
Examples
- Watoto wanapenda chokoleti sana.Children love chocolate very much.
- Alimpa mpenzi wake boksi la chokoleti.He gave his girlfriend a box of chocolates.
- Tanzania inalima kakao inayotumika kutengeneza chokoleti.Tanzania grows cocoa that is used to make chocolate.
Forms
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