Prep Vocab
Dialog
CONTEXT: Abi is chatting with her cousin Adama the family courtyard. It's hot out!
ABI: Tile bɔra. Yɔrɔ ganna dɛ. [1]
ADAMA: Walayi! Tile ka farin kojugu bi!
ABI: Funteni t'i la? [2]
ADAMA: Nɛnɛ kɔni tɛ n na! An mago bɛ sanji la. [3]
ABI: À bɛ ka na dun. [4][5]
ADAMA: O ka ɲi. N'Ala sɔnna, yɔrɔ bɛ suma.
ABI: San finna dɔɔnin kaban!
ADAMA: N ɲɛ bɛ sankabaw la.
ABI: Fiɲɛ bɛ ka wuli fana.
ADAMA: Sanji bɛ ka bin! An ka taa so kɔnɔ!
ADAMA: For real! The sun is too fiery today!
ABI: Are you not hot? [2]
ADAMA: I am not cold in any case! We need rain. [3]
ABI: It's coming, you know. [4][5]
ADAMA: That's good. God willing, the place will cool.
ABI: The sky has blackened a little already!
ADAMA: I see the clouds.
ABI: The wind is picking up.
ADAMA: Rain is falling! Let's go in the house!
Grammar Points
- 1) The particle
dɛ - 2) Using situatives with postpositions to express sensations
- 3) Expressing "to need" with
mago/mako - 4) Progressives with
bɛ ka / tɛ ka - 5) Contrastive particle
dun
Lesson
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Vocab
- tile [tle]
-
sun
- yɔrɔ
-
place
- ka gan/gwan
-
to heat (up)
- funteni
-
heat
- nɛnɛ
-
cold
- kɔni
-
"in any case"
- mago/mako
-
(a) need
- sanji
-
rain
- ka na
-
to come
- ka suma
-
to cool down
- ka fin
-
to blacken
- kaban
-
already
- ɲɛ
-
eye; face
- sankaba
-
cloud
- fiɲɛ
-
wind [Bambara]
- fɔɲɔ
-
wind [Jula]
- ka wuli
-
to rise
- ka bin
-
to fall
- so
-
house
- Nɛnɛ bɛ dɛ!
-
It's cold, man!
- Funteni tɛ dɛ!
-
It's not hot, man!
- Funteni bɛ n na!
-
I'm hot!
- Nɛnɛ tɛ n na
-
I'm not cold
- Dugu mago bɛ sanji la
-
The town needs rain
- Sanji ka kan ka na
-
Rain needs to come
- Sanji bɛ ka bin
-
It's raining
- Fiɲɛ tɛ ka ci
-
The wind isn't blowing
- Sanji tɛ na dun!
-
The rain isn't coming, you know!
- Tile bɔra
-
The sun has come out
- Tile bɛ
-
The sun is out
- Funteni bɛ
-
It's hot
- ka wɔsi
-
to sweat
- ka taa kɛnɛ ma
-
to go outside
- ka sigi suma na
-
to sit in the shade
- ka ji suma min
-
to drink cold water
- Nɛnɛ bɛ
-
It's cold
- Nɛnɛ bɛ n na
-
I'm cold
- ka fini girinman don
-
to put on heavy clothing
- San finna
-
The sky has darkened [as in, "It looks like rain"]
- San(ji) bɛ ka na
-
Rain is coming
- Fiɲɛ wulila
-
The wind has picked up [Lit. "The has risen"]
- ka taa so/bon kɔnɔ
-
to go inside the house
- ka to so/bon kɔnɔ
-
to stay inside the house
- ka "parapluie" ɲini
-
to seek an umbrella
- San(ji) binna
-
Rain has fallen
- Fiɲɛ/Fɔɲɔ bɛ ci
-
The wind blows
- Sanji ye n ɲigin
-
The rain got me wet
- samiya
- rainy season [when farming occurs; around June-August in West Africa]
- Sanji bɛ na samiya la
-
Rain comes during rainy season
- fo(nɛnɛ)
- cold season [when things are very dry and dusty around Dec-Jan in West Africa]
- ka sumaya
- to become cool
- Yɔrɔ bɛ sumaya fo la
-
The place cools down in cold season