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Dialog 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
- week
- ka se
- to arrive
- ko
- affair; thing
- k'à dɔn
- to know sth
- fɔlɔ
- yet
Dialog
Audio file
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 - 3) Negative participle
-bali - 4) Potential participle
-ta
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