- 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
[Noun] is [adjective]
- ka : positive descripter
- Ǒ cɛ̌ ka kɔ̀rɔ. : That man is old.
- Be careful not to confuse the two uses of ka :
- Cɛ̌ ka gafe ka kɔ̀rɔ. : The man's book is old.
- Use man in the negative:
- Òlu man kɔ̀rɔ. : They are not old.
- Some adjectives make compound words in Bambara:
- nin : small
- cɛ̌nin : small man
- mùsonin : small woman
- ba : big
- cɛ̌ba : big man
- mùsoba : big woman