Recognise a service location and a request for directions.
Activities are teaching adaptations. Source transcriptions remain pending expert review; each card states its source and status.
Locate the post office and shop in the printed source sentence on a sketch. Read the complete request for directions; keep unfamiliar place names in their local form.
Source reference · awaiting expert review
ɖakʋta
EN hospital
FR hôpital
Editorial gloss and explanation · awaiting review
A place where sick or injured people receive medical care.
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.
A place where children or adults go to learn and take lessons.
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 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.
English follows the workbook’s meaning. French glosses and explanatory definitions are editorial. This attested example still awaits project expert review.
The post office is in front of the shop. Describe the post office’s location in the source’s dialogue, not an actual current address.
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.
FR S’il vous plaît, pouvez-vous m’indiquer le chemin ?
Editorial gloss and explanation · awaiting review
Please, can you show me the way?. Politely ask someone to show or explain the route.
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.
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.
Describe where something is
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
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
In this source, does the location word normally come before or after the noun?
