Kabɩyɛ LabLANGUAGE · PEOPLE · KNOWLEDGEKabɩyɛ · Togo
Identify the house, room, floor and table.
Activities are teaching adaptations. Source transcriptions remain pending expert review; each card states its source and status.
Point to each place or object. Find its matching card, cover the source form, then recall and compare it with the printed form.
EN floor
FR sol ; plancher
Editorial gloss and explanation · awaiting review
floor
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 house
FR maison
Editorial gloss and explanation · awaiting review
house
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 room
FR pièce ; chambre
Editorial gloss and explanation · awaiting review
room
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 table
FR table
Editorial gloss and explanation · awaiting review
table
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. 110 · printed p. 106
EN home; dwelling
FR Habitation
Editorial gloss and explanation · awaiting review
home; dwelling
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. 16 · page imprimée 16
EN table
FR Table
Editorial gloss and explanation · awaiting review
table
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. 20 · page imprimée 20
EN Describe where something is
FR Indiquer où se trouve quelque chose
Editorial gloss and explanation · awaiting review
The workbook calls these words postpositions: they follow the noun. With pronouns, they may attach to the pronoun. First learn the meanings below, then read the complete source examples to see their position in a sentence.
| Person | Aspect / context | Kabɩyɛ | Meaning / note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Location | da | in | |
| Location | cɔlɔ | near / beside | |
| Location | wayɩ | behind | |
| Location | dɛ̀ɛ̀ | under | |
| Location | ɛsɩnda | in front of | |
| Location | hɛ̀kʋda | in the middle of | |
| Location | pɛ̀hɛ̀kʋda | between | |
| Location | yɔɔ | on |
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 this source, does the location word normally come before or after the noun?
After the noun.
Source : Kabiye O.P.L. Workbook — Oral Proficiency Learning
PDF p. 63 · printed / imprimée 59