Recognise a cloth-price question, a payment request and a thank-you.
Activities are teaching adaptations. Source transcriptions remain pending expert review; each card states its source and status.
Arrange the source cards into a practice sequence: ask the cloth price, recognise that it is expensive, pay and thank the seller. The question refers specifically to cloth; practise it as printed and request a reviewed variant for another product.
Source reference · awaiting expert review
Ŋna ŋbɛ̀dʋ pɩsaw ?
EN How much do you sell the cloth for?
FR À combien vendez-vous le tissu ?
Editorial gloss and explanation · awaiting review
How much do you sell the cloth for?. Ask a seller for the price of cloth.
Transcription and translation notes
English follows the workbook’s meaning. French glosses and explanatory definitions are editorial. This attested example still awaits project expert review.
Legacy PDF font codes have been converted to visually matching Latin Kabɩyɛ letters, preserving printed tones and the original extracted text. This does not modernize the source orthography.
It's expensive. Say that the price of an item is high.
Transcription and translation notes
English follows the workbook’s meaning. French glosses and explanatory definitions are editorial. This attested example still awaits project expert review.
Legacy PDF font codes have been converted to visually matching Latin Kabɩyɛ letters, preserving printed tones and the original extracted text. This does not modernize the source orthography.
Take the money and give me the change. Pay and ask the seller to return the change.
Transcription and translation notes
English follows the workbook’s meaning. French glosses and explanatory definitions are editorial. This attested example still awaits project expert review.
Legacy PDF font codes have been converted to visually matching Latin Kabɩyɛ letters, preserving printed tones and the original extracted text. This does not modernize the source orthography.
Thank you. Thank someone after a purchase or assistance.
Transcription and translation notes
English follows the workbook’s meaning. French glosses and explanatory definitions are editorial. This attested example still awaits project expert review.
Legacy PDF font codes have been converted to visually matching Latin Kabɩyɛ letters, preserving printed tones and the original extracted text. This does not modernize the source orthography.
English follows the workbook’s meaning. French glosses and explanatory definitions are editorial. This attested example still awaits project expert review.
Legacy PDF font codes have been converted to visually matching Latin Kabɩyɛ letters, preserving printed tones and the original extracted text. This does not modernize the source orthography.
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.
In the greeting examples, the final particle na marks a yes-or-no question. The workbook uses lɛ with lɩwʋ “to come out”. Learn these complete examples and their situations; question words and particles should not be added mechanically to every sentence.
Ask a yes-or-no question
Person
Aspect / context
Kabɩyɛ
Meaning / note
na
Ŋɖówá cámɩ̀yɛ̀ na?
Did you sleep well?
lɛ
Ŋlɩ̀wá lɛ́?
Did you come out from the room well? Used as a morning greeting.
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
Which particle ends the question about sleeping well?
