Kabɩyɛ LabLANGUAGE · PEOPLE · KNOWLEDGEKabɩyɛ · Togo
Ask for a repetition or an explanation.
Activities are teaching adaptations. Source transcriptions remain pending expert review; each card states its source and status.
Cover the meanings and select the card for “Say it again”, “Say it slowly” or “What does it mean?”. Practise each as a complete request.
EN Say it slowly
FR Dites-le lentement
Editorial gloss and explanation · awaiting review
Say it slowly
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. 95 · printed p. 91
EN Say it again
FR Dites-le encore
Editorial gloss and explanation · awaiting review
Say it again
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.
Tasɩ yɔdυ
Source : Kabiye O.P.L. Workbook — Peace Corps Togo
PDF p. 95 · printed p. 91
EN What does it mean?
FR Qu’est-ce que cela veut dire ?
Editorial gloss and explanation · awaiting review
What does it mean?
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.
Pɩdɔbυ suwe?
Source : Kabiye O.P.L. Workbook — Peace Corps Togo
PDF p. 95 · printed p. 91
EN I don't understand
FR Je ne comprends pas
Editorial gloss and explanation · awaiting review
I don't understand
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.
Maanɩwυ
Source : Kabiye O.P.L. Workbook — Peace Corps Togo
PDF p. 95 · printed p. 91
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