- 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
Location
- Here we describe the location of a noun.
- Use be/tɛ like before.
- N terikɛ bɛ so. : My (male) friend is (at) home.
- Ne tɛ Mali. : I specifically am not in Mali.
- Like the French "chez" or North-Germanic "hos", Bambara has a word to describe "being at someone's place", fɛ , placed after the noun of the possessor.
- An bɛ T.S. Eliot fɛ. : We are at T.S. Eliot's place.
- In Mali, one can also add the postfix words na/la to describe "in/on/at/upon". Recall -ni and -li were used to make a verb into a noun. The -ni was used for when the last sound of the word was nasalized (m, n and ɲ) and -li was for all others. The same rule applies here:
- Bamakɔ bɛ Mali la. : Bamako is in Mali.
- Bamakɔ tɛ Gana na. : Bamako is not in Ghana.