“Ẹni à bá tà ká fowó-o rẹ̀ ra èbù: ó ní èlé òún kó ọ̀ọ́dúnrún.”
English
A person one would sell for money to purchase quartered yams for planting: he claims that he has enough earnings to buy three hundred yam pieces.
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