- Symbols and Pronunciation
- Some Starter Nouns
- Some Starter Adjectives
- Adjective Placement
- Some Starter Verbs
- Gender
- Quantity
- Verbal Nouns
- Adjectival Nouns
- Articles
- Personal Pronouns
- Present Transitive and Intransitive
- Equatives
- Direct Object and Reflexive Pronouns
- Possessive Pronouns
- This, these, that, those
- Indefinite Pronouns 1
- Indefinite Pronouns 2
- Present Presentatives
- Question Markers 1
- Question Markers 2
- Relative Pronouns and Constructions
- Comparing Things
- [Noun] is [adjective]
- Location
- Past Tense Transitive
- Past Tense Intransitive
- Imperative
- To Have
- To Like
- If-Then Statements
- Present Progressive
- Perfect
- Future
- The Subjunctive Mood
- Turning a Statement Into a Question
- Declarative Statements
- Ka Review
- Prepositions
- OClock
- Introducing Yourself
- Song
- Interjections
- More Emphatics
- Want
- Modals 1
- -len, -nen, -nin
Lessons
Possessive Pronouns
- There are two types of possession in Bambara grammar:
- (1) Natural/inalienable: Things like body parts, friends, a family members. The one major exception is the word denbaya : "family".
- To form a natural possession, simply put the possession after the possessor:
- À ye [n teri] ye. : She is [my friend].
- (2) Unnatural/alieable: Everything else. Your car, house, clothes.
- To form a natural possession, add the word ka after the pronoun:
- À bɛ [n ka ji] mǐn. : She drinks [my water].
- Like before, you can add yɛrɛ to add emphasis. Here, it goes after the possessor:
- À ye [n yɛrɛ teri] ye. : She is [my own friend].
- À bɛ [n yɛrɛ ka ji] mǐn. : She drinks [my own water].
- Lastly, you can also add ta or taw to make a pronoun into a possessive. Like "mine", "yours", etc.
- The word ta is used when the thing being referred to is singular :
- Ji ye n ta ye. : The water is mine.
- À ye Amadou ta ye. : It is Amadou's.
- The word taw is used when the thing being referred to is plural :
- Gafew ye n taw ye. : The books are mine.
- Ǔ ye Amadou taw ye. : They are Amadou's.