Matatu

//məˈtætuː//

Synonyms for "matatu" (2 found)

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Noun(1 words)

Related words (1)

Noun(1 words)

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Translations

8 translations across 3 languages.

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Finnish

2 entries
  • matatu noun (minivan often used as a share taxi — see also minivan, shared taxi)
  • reittitaksi noun (minivan often used as a share taxi — see also minivan, shared taxi)

Swahili

4 entries
  • daladala noun (minivan often used as a share taxi — see also minivan, shared taxi)
  • matatu noun (minivan often used as a share taxi — see also minivan, shared taxi)
  • moshogi noun (minivan often used as a share taxi — see also minivan, shared taxi)
  • shedhi noun (minivan often used as a share taxi — see also minivan, shared taxi)

Ukrainian

2 entries
  • матату noun (minivan often used as a share taxi — see also minivan, shared taxi)
  • матрей noun (minivan often used as a share taxi — see also minivan, shared taxi)

Sample sentences

4 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

A matatu is also more profitable when driven by its owner than by an employed driver, or if the employee-driver pays in all the earnings and the owner meets the operating costs, rather than when the owner demands a fixed sum of money daily, with the operator keeping the surplus.

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For now, matatus made lanes along both sides of tarmac main roads and went over, around or through potholes depending on their speed.

Source: wiktionary

Memories of their sense of trepidation, or even the anger, aboard a matatu could still be visceral.

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The roads were jammed with matatu minibuses sporting cartoonish liveries, and trucks billowing black smoke into the dazzling African light.

Source: wiktionary

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