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Dialectal variants
Suffix
ɓe
- Noun class indicator for nouns (plural) especially humans
Usage notes
Article
ɓe
- (definite) the (when it follows the noun)
- yimɓe ɓe ― the people
Nyannde fuu sukaaɓe ɓe na njakkoo taa kulle naata gese muɓɓen.- Every day the children diligently guard against the animals getting into their fields.
Usage notes
Determiner
ɓe
- (used in indicating something)
- ɓe yimɓe ― these / those people
Usage notes
Pronoun
ɓe
- subject pronoun they
Ɓe adi donle maɓɓe ɗen.- They transported their baggage.
- object pronoun them
O yamiri ɓe yahugol.- He ordered them to go.
Delegasiyon ittaama ko yahana ɓe.- A delegation was sent to look for them.
- relative pronoun who, whom
Mi yi'ii yimɓe ɓe coonnirnoomi baali ley luumo hannden.- I saw the people to whom I had sold the sheep in market today.
Usage notes
- This word takes many grammatical roles and the difficulty in classifying it into Western grammatical groupings leads to a large variation in its classification
References
- Oumar Bah, Dictionnaire Pular-Français, Avec un index français-pular, Webonary.org, SIL International, 2014.
- Richard Smith, Urs Niggli, Dictionnaire fulfulde - anglais - français, Webonary.org, SIL International, 2016.
- M. Niang, Pulaar-English English-Pulaar Standard Dictionary, New York: Hippocrene Books, 1997.