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Kabɩyɛ · Togo

Build a small shopping list

Recognise common foods and a unit of weight.

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

Select three goods from the cards and recall their meanings. Ask a speaker to confirm which product and unit each name describes at your market.

Source reference · awaiting expert review

hɛɛ

EN yam

FR igname

Editorial gloss and explanation · awaiting review

yam

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. 42 · printed p. 38

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Source reference · awaiting expert review

mɔʋ

EN rice

FR riz

Editorial gloss and explanation · awaiting review

rice

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

mɔυ

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

PDF p. 42 · printed p. 38

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Source reference · awaiting expert review

sóna

EN beans; boiled beans

FR haricots ; haricots bouillis

Editorial gloss and explanation · awaiting review

beans; boiled beans

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. 42 · printed p. 38

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Source reference · awaiting expert review

tematesɩ

EN tomatoes

FR tomates

Editorial gloss and explanation · awaiting review

tomatoes

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. 42 · printed p. 38

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Source reference · awaiting expert review

lɩm

EN water

FR eau

Editorial gloss and explanation · awaiting review

The liquid people drink and use for washing and cooking.

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. 42 · printed p. 38

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Source reference · awaiting expert review

kiloo

EN kilogram

FR Kilogramme

Editorial gloss and explanation · awaiting review

A metric unit of mass equal to 1,000 grams.

Transcription de la source, contrôlée visuellement sur le PDF. Validation linguistique par les experts du projet à venir.

Transcription and translation notes

English gloss and explanation are editorial translations of the French source label, not a separate expert validation of the Kabɩyɛ form.

Source : Mon livret de vocabulaire français-kabɩyɛ, 2ème édition (juillet 2019)

PDF p. 17 · page imprimée 17

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