Kupera
(runangakatsva kubva kuKupedza)
Kupera (end, to be finished) zvinoreva kuti chinhu chasvika kumagumo.
Mamwe Mazwi
[chinjirudza | chinjirudza mabviro]- Kuguma (to stop, to come to an end).
- Chokugumisira (the last).
- Magumo (the end, the edge of anything).
- Gumisiro (end, result).
- Kugumira pagomo (end at the mountain).
- Pakuguma (lastly, at last).
- Kwapera (after so many years/times have passed).
Mitauro yeBantu
[chinjirudza | chinjirudza mabviro]- VaMaconde vanoti -chidika (be end of something) vachireva magumo. VaMaconde vanoti -chidika (bar) vachireva hwere.
- Kihaya inoti enzindo (end) kureva magumo. VaHaya vanoti kumala (to finish) kureva kupedza. Kikongo inoti kuma (v. pause).
- VaBemba vanoti mpela (end) kureva magumo. VaSaghala vanoti kudua (to finish) vachireva kupedza.
- MaZulu vanoti umphetho (Hem, scam, border) kureva mapeto. Mamwe mazwi: imphetho (Conclusion, end of an affair; issue, result)
- MaZulu vanoti isiphetho (Conclusion, end). Mamwe mazwi: phelelwa (Lose all, have nothing left ; be short of) sokuti: ukuphelelwa ukudla (to have no food).