Verbs in the Past
- ye
- transitive past marker
- -ra/la/na
- intransitive affirmative past marker
- ma
- negative past marker
- N taara
- I went; I left
- N ma taa
- I didn't go
- U wulila
- They got up
- U ma wuli
- They didn't get up
- À karila
- It broke
- À ma kari
- It didn't break
- An nana
- We came
- An ma na
- We didn't come
- N y'i fo
- I greeted you
- N m'i fo
- I didn't greet you
- I y'à ye?
- Did you see it?
- I m'à ye?
- Did you not see it?
- faransikan
- French language (lit. 'France language')
- k'à dɔn
- to know something/someone
- k'à lɔn
- to know something/someone [Jula]
- taayɔrɔ/tagayɔrɔ
- Lit. 'go-place' (as in, 'where someone or something went')
- ka fɛn taayɔrɔ dɔn/lɔn
- to know where something went (lit. "to know something's go-place")
- ka sunɔgɔ
- to sleep
- ka mɛɛn
- to last; to occur a while back
- ka mɛɛn yan
- to be here for a longtime
- ka mɔgɔ dege (fɛn na)
- to teach someone ([about] something)
- ka fɛn dege
- to learn something
- kolo
- bone