- 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
Indefinite Pronouns 2
- dɔni : little (amount of)
- dɔni dɔni : very little (amount of)
- Den ninw bɛ ji dɔni mǐn. : The children drink a little (bit of) water.
- N bɛ dɔni mǐn. : I drink a little.
- N bɛ julakan fɔ dɔni dɔni. : I speak very little Jula.
- si : no amount
- Karamɔgɔ si sìgi. : No teacher sits.
- Den ninw bɛ ji si mǐn : The children drink no water.
- The word si can also be a double negative. If you're familiar with Bambara/Jula greetings, you may have learned Tɔɔrɔ si tɛ., literally "Trouble none not", meaning "No troubles".
- foyi / fosi : nothing
- The words foyi and fosi go with the negative marker tɛ which is the negative equivalent of bɛ . (More on tɛ later.)
- Fosi tɛ yan. : Nothing not here. (Which means "Nothing here.")
- À tɛ foyi mǐn. : He doesn't drink nothing. ("He doesn't drink anything.")
- (So maybe foyi / fosi can almost be thought of as "at all".)
- You can add a phrase ending with kɔ to make the phrase "...nothing but ___.":
- Ǔ tɛ foyi mǐn ji kɔ. : They drink nothing but water.