gaari2abbr. gaa or gai1to separate, to isolateBisanga a bora kpaling chaab, ga gaari ba.The children are fighting, go and separate them.2to distinguish, to discern, to recognizeBa nyiem kpang ka nna yeg-yega ka ngman ze badek biik a gaari.They used to grow so very old that they no longer recognized their own child.3to disentangleMiika a melim wuuku ate nipooba an bagi a gaari.The rope entangled in the grass so that the woman could not disentangle it.gaari kpalingkato stop a fight (by separating the fighters)Ase kpaling dan bo sinsii, wa ale wa ga a gaari kpalingka.If there was a fight somewhere, he went and stopped the fighting.4to subtract, to do a mathematical subtractionKarichiwa begi biika ain wa gaari banu pi po, ate biika an baga.The teacher asked the child to subtract five from ten, and the child could not do it.Gaari mu bas.Set me free. Release me.gaa-basitransl. ‘minus’Bega: Kpesa pi fi gaa sinu basi?Question: Ten fowls minus five is? (lit. Ten fowls you subtract five?)gaa-basika v.n.subtraction
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