Kabɩyɛ LabLANGUAGE · PEOPLE · KNOWLEDGEKabɩyɛ · Togo
Recognise a present weather report and an approaching change.
Activities are teaching adaptations. Source transcriptions remain pending expert review; each card states its source and status.
Compare “It is raining” with “It is going to rain” as complete source phrases. Pair each with a suitable picture; review the water and rainy-season words.
EN water
FR eau
Editorial gloss and explanation · awaiting review
The liquid people drink and use for washing and cooking.
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. 42 · printed p. 38
EN rain
FR Pluie
Editorial gloss and explanation · awaiting review
Water falling from clouds in drops.
Kabɩyɛ and French come from the Académie vocabulary. English glosses and explanatory definitions are editorial; project expert review is pending.
Source : Mon livret de vocabulaire français-kabɩyɛ, 2ème édition (juillet 2019)
PDF p. 18 · page imprimée 18
EN rainy season
FR saison des pluies
Editorial gloss and explanation · awaiting review
The part of the year when rain is frequent.
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. 109 · printed p. 105
EN It is raining
FR Il pleut
Editorial gloss and explanation · awaiting review
It is raining
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.
Tɛwυ nɩwυ
Source : Kabiye O.P.L. Workbook — Peace Corps Togo
PDF p. 96 · printed p. 92
EN It is going to rain
FR Il va pleuvoir
Editorial gloss and explanation · awaiting review
It is going to rain
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.
Tɛwυ caɣ nɩwυ
Source : Kabiye O.P.L. Workbook — Peace Corps Togo
PDF p. 96 · printed p. 92
EN The wind is blowing
FR Le vent souffle
Editorial gloss and explanation · awaiting review
The wind is blowing
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 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