kushona

How to say it

Meaning

To join cloth or other material with a needle and thread or a sewing machine, to make or mend clothes; a doctor also sews up a wound.

Good to know

Takes what is sewn as object: kushona nguo, to sew clothes; kushona kidonda, to stitch a wound. The tailor is fundi cherehani or mshonaji, and cherehani is a sewing machine.

Examples

• Mama yangu hushona nguo za watoto nyumbani.My mother sews the children's clothes at home.
• Fundi atanishonea gauni jipya kwa ajili ya harusi.The tailor will make me a new dress for the wedding.
• Daktari alishona jeraha lake kwa nyuzi tano.The doctor stitched his wound with five stitches.

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