Dialog Vocab
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- mago/mako
-
a need
- X mago bÉ fÉn na
-
X needs something (lit. "The need of X is on something")
- ka ja
- to dry
- jiko
- cf. ji-ko 'water-affair'
- bÉ ka
- the progressive predicate marker (Written as two words by convention. Not typically used in Jula)
- ka sÉn
- to accept; to agree
- N'Ala sÉnna
- God willing (cf. Inshallah)
- Walayi
- By God! (as in, "I swear!" or "For real!") [< Ar.]
Dialog
Audio file
CONTEXT: Itâs hot! Adama and Abi are sitting together in their courtyard trying to keep cool.
ADAMA: Tile bÉra kÉni! Funteni bÉ!
ABI: ĆnhÉn, tile ka farin bi!
ADAMA: Funteni bÉ n na (1) kojugu.
ABI: E tÉ ji dÉ min wa?
ADAMA: [He drinks.] An mako bÉ sanji la (2)!
ABI: O ye tiÉ˛É ye. YÉrÉ jara kojugu.
ADAMA: Walayi! Jiko bÉ ka (3) an bÉÉ tÉÉrÉ.
ABI: Sanji nana BamakÉ kunun dun.
ADAMA: N'Ala sÉnna, Ă bÉ na yan fana.
ABI: Ă bÉ sÉn!
ADAMA: The sun has come it "in any case"! It's hot!
ABI: Yes, the sun is fiery today!
ADAMA: I'm too hot!
ABI: Won't you drink some water?
ADAMA: Water?!! We need rain!
ABI: That's true. This place is too dry.
ADAMA: For real! The affair of water is making us all suffer.
ABI: Rain came to Bamako yesterday, you know.
ADAMA: God willing, it comes here too.
ABI: He will be willing!
ABI: Yes, the sun is fiery today!
ADAMA: I'm too hot!
ABI: Won't you drink some water?
ADAMA: Water?!! We need rain!
ABI: That's true. This place is too dry.
ADAMA: For real! The affair of water is making us all suffer.
ABI: Rain came to Bamako yesterday, you know.
ADAMA: God willing, it comes here too.
ABI: He will be willing!
Grammar Points
- 1) Situatives with postpositions to express sensations
- 2) Expressing "to need" with
mako/mago - 3) Progressives with
bÉ ka
Lesson
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