Relative Pronouns and Constructions

  - min / minw / minnu : who

    - A bit confusingly, Jɔn means "who" and Min means "where", but it so happens that min means "who" when used in a descriptive clause: "The woman WHO drinks sits down".

    - The plural forms are minw / minnu .

      - The way these sentences are done in Bambara is by splitting the sentence into two complete sentences and then adding a comma between them. For example: "The woman who drinks sits down." -› "The woman who drinks, she sits down."

    - Mùsò min mǐn, à sìgi. : The woman who drinks sits down.

    - Denkɛ̀ min sìgi, à gafe kàlàn. : The boy who sits reads the book.

    - Cɛ̀ min jamu Kurtz, à ka sǎ. : "Mistah Kurtz, he dead." -- T.S. Eliot

    - Note in the above that the definite article nin or the lowered town aren't needed. The min makes it a definite article.