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Welcome a visitor

Choose the source expression for entering, welcoming and sitting down.

Activities are teaching adaptations. Source transcriptions remain pending expert review; each card states its source and status.

Assign one complete source card to each moment of a visit. Compare the source’s singular and plural welcome labels without replacing words inside the phrases.

Source reference · awaiting expert review

Sʋ/ɩsʋ

EN Come in

FR Entrez

Editorial gloss and explanation · awaiting review

Come in

Transcription and translation notes

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.

Original extracted text

Sυ/ɩsυ

Source : Kabiye O.P.L. Workbook — Peace Corps Togo

PDF p. 96 · printed p. 92

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Source reference · awaiting expert review

Kabɩtɛ

EN Welcome

FR Bienvenue

Editorial gloss and explanation · awaiting review

Welcome

Transcription and translation notes

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

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Source reference · awaiting expert review

Kabɩtɛwa

EN Welcome (you plural)

FR Bienvenue (à plusieurs personnes)

Editorial gloss and explanation · awaiting review

Welcome (you plural)

Transcription and translation notes

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

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Source reference · awaiting expert review

Mɛndɛ cɩnɛ alafɩa

EN What's the object of your visit?

FR Quel est l’objet de votre visite ?

Editorial gloss and explanation · awaiting review

What's the object of your visit?

Transcription and translation notes

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

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Source reference · awaiting expert review

Caɣ

EN Have a seat

FR Asseyez-vous

Editorial gloss and explanation · awaiting review

Have a seat

Transcription and translation notes

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

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Source reference · awaiting expert review

Ɩcaɣ

EN Have a seat

FR Asseyez-vous

Editorial gloss and explanation · awaiting review

Have a seat

Transcription and translation notes

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

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Related grammar

Source reference · awaiting expert review

Give a simple instruction

EN Give a simple instruction

FR Donner une consigne simple

Editorial gloss and explanation · awaiting review

The food lesson prints imperative phrases separately from dictionary infinitives. Use the attested command, followed by its object. These short cooking instructions show why the infinitive cannot simply be reused as every command.

Give a simple instruction
PersonAspect / contextKabɩyɛMeaning / note
InstructionNaŋ kpanzʋGrind pepper.
InstructionƉʋ ɖɔmPut salt.
InstructionSɔzɩ̀ numAdd oil.
Transcription and translation notes

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.

Editorial exercises · awaiting review

Find the source command meaning “Add oil”.

Show answer

Sɔzɩ̀ num

Source : Kabiye O.P.L. Workbook — Oral Proficiency Learning

PDF p. 45 · printed / imprimée 41

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