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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

chakleti

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