Recognise learning actions and ask for a word’s meaning.
Activities are teaching adaptations. Source transcriptions remain pending expert review; each card states its source and status.
Review the action words as dictionary forms. Read the complete source questions, then choose the one you would use when a written word is unfamiliar.
Source reference · awaiting expert review
kalʋʋ
EN to read
FR lire
Editorial gloss and explanation · awaiting review
To look at written words and understand them.
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.
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.
To acquire knowledge or a skill through study, teaching or practice.
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.
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.
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.
The dictionary describes a verbal core made from a root and an aspect marker. Prefixes can express the subject and other information, including negation. Separate these parts when studying a form: the person tells you who acts, while aspect describes how the action is viewed.
Editorial exercises · awaiting review
Does an infinitive alone tell you “I”, “you” or “they”?
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No. The source distinguishes the verbal core from subject prefixes.
