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SITUATION: Abi is residing in West Africa temporarily. Her friend Baba wonders if she misses her friends back home.
- BABA: I teriw ɲɛnafin tɛ i la?
- ABI: O bɛ n na kɛ! Nka n terimuso natɔ don! [1]
- BABA: Haan! O ka ɲi kosɛbɛ! À sigilen bɛ min? [2]
- ABI: New York.
- BABA: À yɔrɔ ka jan kojugu!
- ABI: Sira ka jan nka à banbali tɛ! [3]
- BABA: Siga t'à la. À bɛ na tuma jumɛn?
- ABI: Dɔgɔkun nata! [4]
- BABA: À selen, aw bɛna mun kɛ?
- ABI: N ma an ka ko kɛtaw dɔn fɔlɔ.
- BABA: Don't you miss your friends?
- ABI: But of course I miss them! But my friend is coming! [1]
- BABA: Wow! That's really great! Where does she live? [2]
- ABI: New York.
- BABA: It is super far!
- ABI: The road (between them) is long, but it's not endless! [3]
- BABA: There's no doubt about that. When will she come?
- ABI: Next week! [4]
- BABA: Once she has arrived, what will you do?
- ABI: I don't know "our things for doing" [as in, "the things that we will do"] yet.
- ABI: But of course I miss them! But my friend is coming! [1]
- BABA: Wow! That's really great! Where does she live? [2]
- ABI: New York.
- BABA: It is super far!
- ABI: The road (between them) is long, but it's not endless! [3]
- BABA: There's no doubt about that. When will she come?
- ABI: Next week! [4]
- BABA: Once she has arrived, what will you do?
- ABI: I don't know "our things for doing" [as in, "the things that we will do"] yet.
Grammar Points
- 1) Progressive participle
-tɔ - 2) Resultative participle
-len(NOTE: This point was also covered earlier in "Dugutaga") - 3) Negative participle
-bali - 4) Potential participle
-ta
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Vocab
- ɲɛnafin
- nostalgia
- ka na
- to come
- haan
- "Amazing!"
- ka sigi
- to sit; to reside/live (somewhere)
- yɔrɔ
- place
- sira
- road; path
- jan
- far; long; tall
- ka ban
- to end
- siga
- doubt
- dɔgɔkun/lɔgɔkun
- week
- ka se
- to arrive
- ko
- affair; thing
- k'à dɔn/lɔn
- to know sth
- fɔlɔ
- yet
- -len/nen
- resultative participle ("-ed") [Bambara]
- -nin
- resultative participle ("-ed") [Jula]
- I sigilen bɛ min?
- Where do you live? [Lit. "You seated are where?"]
- I dalen don?
- Are you laying down? [Lit. "You laid.down it.is?"]
- N ye Musa sigilen fo
- I greeted Musa (who was) seated
- -tɔ
- progressive participle ("-ing")
- I taatɔ don?
- Are you (in the process of) going?
- N ye Musa taatɔ fo
- I greeted Musa (while he was) going
- -bali
- privative/negative participle ("-less"; "un-X-able")
- kuma banbali
- endless talk
- malobali
- shameless (person)
- kalanbali
- study-less (person) [i.e. "a person who didn't go to school"]
- ko kɛbali
- undoable affair/thing
- Don ka jan, à sebali tɛ
- A day is far (off from now), but it's not unarriving [Proverb: "No matter how far away a day is, it will arrive someday")
- -ta
- potential participle
- dɔgɔkun nata
- the week to come; "next week"
- fɛn feereta
- thing for sale; thing to sell
- fɛn yeta
- a thing to see
- baara kɛta
- work to be done; "task"
- teri
- friend
- teriya
- friendship
- jɛɲɔgɔn
- companion
- somɔgɔw
- family members
- tunga
- abroad; away from from home; "adventure"
- N bɛ tunga la
- I am abroad; I am on an adventure (away from home)
- so
- home
- faso
- homeland; home town; motherland [Lit. "father-house"]
- ka kasi
- to cry
- k'à wele/weele
- to call sb
- weleli
- a (phone) call
- dusukasi
- sadness
- N dusu bɛ kasi
- I am sad [Lit. "My heart cries"]
- bataki
- letter
- ka bɔ mɔgɔ ye
- to visit sb
- ka taa bɔ X
- to (go) visit X [a place]
- lɔgɔ [Jula]
- longing
- X lɔgɔ bɛ n na
- I long for X
- nege
- desire; passion; craving
- X nege bɛ n na
- I have an intense desire for X