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  1. Apr 2021
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    3. jeloroc 22 Apr 2021
      naan

      naan v. get to the goal in a chase game [arriver au but dans un jeu de poursuite] I will reach the goal before you join/rejoin/meet/overtake me.

      naan v. 1. to drink (drink, imbibe, drain, quaff, absorb, bib, ingrain, blot; drink away); 2. to drink alcohol.

      naan gi n. alcoholic drink (booze / boose).

      naanu gi n. pipe. Among the Saint-Louisiennes, there are some who once smoked pipes.

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    7. jeloroc 22 Apr 2021
      ndaw

      ndaw det. quantitative. that of [que de]. So much money wasted on marriage!

      ndaw v. to be small, young (adj. youthful, teenage, immature; n. youth, juvenille, junior, teenager, lad, youngish).

      ndaw gi n. youth (youthfulness, girlhood, teens, freshness); virginity (maidenhead), nubility.

      ndaw li n. messenger (courier, herald, runner).

      ndaw ñi n. young people [les jeunes].

      ndaw si n. young woman (wench, baby).

      ndawal gi (side dish); ndawràbbin bi (traditional dance of Lebou women); ndawtal gi (offer, as a gift, on the occasion of a happy event, a certain sum of money; gift offered on the occasion of a happy event).

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    8. jeloroc 22 Apr 2021

      Parts of Speech

      adv. An adverb is a word or an expression that modifies a verb, adjective, another adverb, determiner, clause, preposition, or sentence. Adverbs typically express manner, place, time, frequency, degree, level of certainty, etc., answering questions such as how?, in what way?, when?, where?, and to what extent?.

      n. A noun is a word that functions as the name of a specific object or set of objects, such as living creatures, places, actions, qualities, states of existence, or ideas. However, noun is not a semantic category, so it cannot be characterized in terms of its meaning.

      pron. In linguistics and grammar, a pronoun is a word that substitutes for a noun or noun phrase. Pronouns have traditionally been regarded as one of the parts of speech, but some modern theorists would not consider them to form a single class, in view of the variety of functions they perform cross-linguistically.

      adj. In linguistics, an adjective is a word that modifies a noun or noun phrase or describes its referent. Its semantic role is to change information given by the noun.

      v. A verb, from the Latin verbum meaning word, is a word that in syntax conveys an action, an occurrence, or a state of being. In the usual description of English, the basic form, with or without the particle to, is the infinitive. In many languages, verbs are inflected to encode tense, aspect, mood, and voice.

      prep. Prepositions and postpositions, together called adpositions, are a class of words used to express spatial or temporal relations or mark various semantic roles.

      conj. In grammar, conjunction is a part of speech that connects words, phrases, or clauses that are called the conjuncts of the conjunctions. The term discourse marker is mostly used for conjunctions joining sentences.

      det. A determiner, also called determinative, is a word, phrase, or affix that occurs together with a noun or noun phrase and serves to express the reference of that noun or noun phrase in the context.

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  3. Mar 2021
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    1. jeloroc 24 Mar 2021

      Consonant Pronunciation

      b - boy / ban

      c - chat / ceeb

      d - dog / dara

      f - fire / fas

      g - good / agsi

      j - job / jox

      k - keep / kaani

      l - land / lakk

      m - mark / naam

      n - nice / àdduna

      ñ - genius / gaañ

      p - paint / puso

      r - rat / raxas

      s - soup / kawas

      t - take / tubaab

      w - wait / kéwél

      x - (see note below) / xaalis

      y - yes / yaa

      There is no English equivalent for this sound, it is a slightly guttural sound that is between x and k. It may also be pronounced merely as h, especially among non-natives.

      mb - mbaa

      mp - dàmp

      nd - ndey

      ng - ngan

      nj - njaay

      ŋ - masoŋ

      Prenasalized consonants don't exist in English the way they do in Wolof. ng and ŋ sound almost the same if not the same. Words like sing, bring, king, mango, etc. are the closest to this sound.

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    3. jeloroc 24 Mar 2021

      Vowel Pronunciation

      a - absorb / sant

      aa - far / laaj

      e - get / dem

      ee - where / seet

      é - say / bés

      ée - sane / wéer

      ë - bird / kër

      i - pit / fit

      ii - meet / siis

      o - moment / fomp

      ó - no / jóg

      oo - door / loos

      óo - phone / fóon

      u - cook / ubbi

      uu - moon / juuyoo

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