Notes
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Muso b'i fɛ wa?: "Do you have a wife?". Literally, "Wife is located at your place?". This is a construction for expressing possession or the idea of "to have" using the postposition
fɛ
(Lit. "at the place of" or "by" [as in, "by the river"]). See ""To Have" (Possession)" for more details. -
U balolen bɛ: "They are alive". Literally, "They nourished are"). This sentence uses the past or "resultative" participle
-len
, which is similar to "-ed" in English. For instance, "nourished". You can use it to turn verbs into something like an adjective:ka sigi
'to sit' →sigilen
'seated'. For example,N sigilen don
"I am seated" (Lit. "Me seated it is"). Note thatsigilen
is often used to state where someone lives:N sigilen Faransi
'I live (am seated) in France'