Kabɩyɛ LabLANGUAGE · PEOPLE · KNOWLEDGE← Body and wellbeing vocabulary
Kabɩyɛ · Togo
Distinguish the source meanings for health, illness, hospital and feeling well.
Activities are teaching adaptations. Source transcriptions remain pending expert review; each card states its source and status.
Read the four vocabulary cards, then compare the persons in the recorded wellbeing table. Identify which row refers to one person and which to several.
EN fine (healthy)
FR en bonne santé ; bien
Editorial gloss and explanation · awaiting review
fine (healthy)
The English meaning comes from the Peace Corps workbook. The French gloss is an editorial translation. Printed spellings and tones are retained; font-encoding repairs are disclosed separately. Project expert review is pending.
Source : Kabiye O.P.L. Workbook — Peace Corps Togo
PDF p. 104 · printed p. 100
EN health
FR santé
Editorial gloss and explanation · awaiting review
A person’s state of physical or general well-being.
The English meaning comes from the Peace Corps workbook. The French gloss is an editorial translation. Printed spellings and tones are retained; font-encoding repairs are disclosed separately. Project expert review is pending.
Source : Kabiye O.P.L. Workbook — Peace Corps Togo
PDF p. 105 · printed p. 101
EN hospital
FR hôpital
Editorial gloss and explanation · awaiting review
A place where sick or injured people receive medical care.
The English meaning comes from the Peace Corps workbook. The French gloss is an editorial translation. Printed spellings and tones are retained; font-encoding repairs are disclosed separately. Project expert review is pending.
The workbook’s legacy font encoding has been converted to visually matching Latin Kabɩyɛ letters, with printed tones retained. The original extracted text is preserved. This is not a modernization of the source orthography.
ɖakυta
Source : Kabiye O.P.L. Workbook — Peace Corps Togo
PDF p. 105 · printed p. 101
EN illness
FR maladie
Editorial gloss and explanation · awaiting review
A condition in which a person is sick or unwell.
The English meaning comes from the Peace Corps workbook. The French gloss is an editorial translation. Printed spellings and tones are retained; font-encoding repairs are disclosed separately. Project expert review is pending.
The workbook’s legacy font encoding has been converted to visually matching Latin Kabɩyɛ letters, with printed tones retained. The original extracted text is preserved. This is not a modernization of the source orthography.
kυdɔŋ
Source : Kabiye O.P.L. Workbook — Peace Corps Togo
PDF p. 106 · printed p. 102
EN Subject pronouns: who does the action?
FR Les pronoms sujets : qui fait l’action ?
Editorial gloss and explanation · awaiting review
Subject pronouns join the verb that follows them. The workbook gives the six forms below, then explains that ma and pa change their vowel with wɛwʋ “to be”. Learn the pronoun together with an attested verb form: a dictionary infinitive is not a complete sentence.
| Person | Aspect / context | Kabɩyɛ | Meaning / note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | má | I | |
| Subject | ŋ | you, singular | |
| Subject | ɛ̀ | he / she | |
| Subject | ɖɩ | we | |
| Subject | ɩ | you, plural | |
| Subject | pá | they |
Forms were compared with the PDF. Legacy font characters are represented with the corresponding Latin Kabɩyɛ letters (ɩ, ɛ, ʋ, ɖ, ŋ), retaining printed tone marks.
Which listed subject pronoun means “we”?
ɖɩ. Its form in a complete verb should be learned from the source example.
Source : Kabiye O.P.L. Workbook — Oral Proficiency Learning
PDF p. 12 · printed / imprimée 8
EN An impersonal construction and the person affected
FR Une construction impersonnelle et la personne concernée
Editorial gloss and explanation · awaiting review
In the grammar notes on page 77, the workbook presents an impersonal pronoun before the verb stem. Some examples are translated into English with a person as the subject, while the workbook’s analysis retains an impersonal construction. The table on page 78 then shows how the person affected varies. Compare these complete examples without replacing the beginning of the verb with an ordinary subject pronoun.
Teaching summary of the cited page. No new Kabɩyɛ example was produced; complete forms remain available in the original document.
Does the person used as the subject in the French or English translation always identify the grammatical subject of the source example?
No. The workbook analyses these examples as an impersonal construction and separately indicates the person affected.
Source : Kabiye O.P.L. Workbook — Oral Proficiency Learning
PDF p. 77 · printed / imprimée 73
Source : Kabiye O.P.L. Workbook — Oral Proficiency Learning
PDF p. 78 · printed / imprimée 74