Distinguish a dictionary action word from a complete buying or selling example.
Activities are teaching adaptations. Source transcriptions remain pending expert review; each card states its source and status.
Compare the words “buy” and “sell” with the complete milk-selling and shirt-buying phrases. Identify the goods in each example; new products need their own speaker-checked phrase.
Source reference · awaiting expert review
yábʋ̀
EN to buy
FR acheter
Editorial gloss and explanation · awaiting review
To obtain goods in exchange for payment.
Transcription and translation notes
English follows the workbook’s meaning. French glosses and explanatory definitions are editorial. This attested example still awaits project expert review.
Legacy PDF font codes have been converted to visually matching Latin Kabɩyɛ letters, preserving printed tones and the original extracted text. This does not modernize the source orthography.
English follows the workbook’s meaning. French glosses and explanatory definitions are editorial. This attested example still awaits project expert review.
Legacy PDF font codes have been converted to visually matching Latin Kabɩyɛ letters, preserving printed tones and the original extracted text. This does not modernize the source orthography.
I sell milk. State that you sell milk; the named product is part of the attested example.
Transcription and translation notes
English follows the workbook’s meaning. French glosses and explanatory definitions are editorial. This attested example still awaits project expert review.
Legacy PDF font codes have been converted to visually matching Latin Kabɩyɛ letters, preserving printed tones and the original extracted text. This does not modernize the source orthography.
English follows the workbook’s meaning. French glosses and explanatory definitions are editorial. This attested example still awaits project expert review.
To give money in return for something, here a journey.
Transcription and translation notes
English follows the workbook’s meaning. French glosses and explanatory definitions are editorial. This attested example still awaits project expert review.
Legacy PDF font codes have been converted to visually matching Latin Kabɩyɛ letters, preserving printed tones and the original extracted text. This does not modernize the source orthography.
The dictionary describes a verbal core made from a root and an aspect marker. Prefixes can express the subject and other information, including negation. Separate these parts when studying a form: the person tells you who acts, while aspect describes how the action is viewed.
Editorial exercises · awaiting review
Does an infinitive alone tell you “I”, “you” or “they”?
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No. The source distinguishes the verbal core from subject prefixes.
In this dictionary example, woki is shared by all six persons of wobu “to go”. Compare the beginning of each form. These are six printed examples of one verb; they do not establish a rule for automatically conjugating every verb.
