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Ìwé — Book
Category: Everyday Life
Book — a word learners will already recognise from counting examples like "ìwé kan" (one book).
Ìwé also appears in "ilé ìwé" (school, literally "house of books"), one of the most common compound words a learner encounters.
Ìwé is one of the first nouns many learners encounter because it's commonly used to practice counting objects — a simple, concrete word that makes Yorùbá's counting patterns easy to see in action.
It also appears in several common compounds beyond "ilé ìwé" (school), including words for a writer/clerk and for writing/literacy — the same root running through a small cluster of education-related vocabulary.
Example: Mo ní ìwé mẹ́ta lórí tábìlì mi. — "I have three books on my table."
Related words:
- Ilé ìwé — School, literally "house of books"