- 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
Verbal Nouns
- A verb on its own can also be a noun :
- dɔ̀n : to dance, (the act of) dancing
- sìgi : to sit, (the act of) sitting
- kàlan : to study/read/learn, (the act of) studying/reading/dancing
- At the same time, a verb can be made into a noun by adding a -ni/-li to the end:
- If the last consonant of the verb ends with a nasal sound (m, n, ɲ), then add -ni :
- kɔ̀nɔni : waiting
- kàlanni : studying/reading/learning
- Note: In the rule above, the letter/sound ŋ was not included.
- If the last consanent is anything else, then add -li :
- sìgili : sitting