Kabɩyɛ LabLANGUAGE · PEOPLE · KNOWLEDGEKabɩyɛ · Togo
Recognise a task in progress and acknowledge someone’s work.
Activities are teaching adaptations. Source transcriptions remain pending expert review; each card states its source and status.
Read the complete source phrases about doing a task and work being hard. Choose the relevant encouragement card, then review how the future lesson describes a planned action.
EN Are you doing it?
FR Êtes-vous en train de le faire ?
Editorial gloss and explanation · awaiting review
Are you doing it?
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. 96 · printed p. 92
EN I'm doing it
FR Je suis en train de le faire
Editorial gloss and explanation · awaiting review
I'm doing it
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. 96 · printed p. 92
EN Well done
FR Bon travail ; bravo
Editorial gloss and explanation · awaiting review
Well done
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.
Ñana tυmɩyɛ
Source : Kabiye O.P.L. Workbook — Peace Corps Togo
PDF p. 96 · printed p. 92
EN The work is hard
FR Le travail est difficile
Editorial gloss and explanation · awaiting review
The work is hard
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.
Tυmɩyɛ wɛ ɖoŋ
Source : Kabiye O.P.L. Workbook — Peace Corps Togo
PDF p. 96 · printed p. 92
EN You'll sell things
FR Vous vendrez des marchandises
Editorial gloss and explanation · awaiting review
You'll sell things. Say that the people addressed will sell goods.
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.
Ɩgaɣ pɛdυυ wondυ
Source : Kabiye O.P.L. Workbook — Peace Corps Togo
PDF p. 93 · printed p. 89
EN Thank you
FR Merci
Editorial gloss and explanation · awaiting review
Thank you. Thank someone after a purchase or assistance.
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.
Ŋlaba lέ!
Source : Kabiye O.P.L. Workbook — Peace Corps Togo
PDF p. 33 · printed p. 29
EN Build a sentence about daily life
FR Construire une phrase du quotidien
Editorial gloss and explanation · awaiting review
The daily-activities lesson presents subject + verb + object + time expression. A time expression can also come first. Compare the two attested sentences: changing the position of “sometimes” keeps the same basic message.
| Person | Aspect / context | Kabɩyɛ | Meaning / note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Time at the end | Mulu lɩm wiɖi wiɖi | I fetch water sometimes. | |
| Time at the beginning | Wiɖi wiɖi mulu lɩm | Sometimes I fetch water. |
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 expression means “sometimes” in both examples?
wiɖi wiɖi
Source : Kabiye O.P.L. Workbook — Oral Proficiency Learning
PDF p. 57 · printed / imprimée 53
EN Talk about a future action
FR Parler d’une action future
Editorial gloss and explanation · awaiting review
The work lesson builds a future expression with subject + gaɣ + infinitive + complement. It identifies gaɣ as a form of kawʋ “to be going to”. The examples below retain the infinitive after this element instead of conjugating it as an English or French future tense.
| Person | Aspect / context | Kabɩyɛ | Meaning / note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Future example | Mangaɣ labʋ tʋmɩyɛ nɛ halʋbiya | I will work with girls. | |
| Future example | Sue gaɣ sɔwʋ tɩŋ | Sue will plant trees. | |
| Future example | Ɖɩgaɣ kpeeluu wɩlɩyaa | We will meet teachers. |
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.
In the source construction, what form follows gaɣ?
An infinitive.
Source : Kabiye O.P.L. Workbook — Oral Proficiency Learning
PDF p. 93 · printed / imprimée 89