- 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
- Interjections
- More Emphatics
- Want
- Modals 1
- -len, -nen, -nin
Lessons
Present Transitive and Intransitive
- A transitive sentence has a subject and a direct object. In Bambara, the order is "subject + auxilary-marker + noun + verb".
- Denmùso nin bɛ ji mǐn. : Daughter the (present tense affirmative) water drinks. (The daughter drinks the water.)
- For present tense, bɛ is affirmitive and tɛ is negative.
- Denmùso nin tɛ ji mǐn. : The daughter did not drink water.
- For intransitive (no direct object), the order is [subject. aux. verb]:
- Denmùso bɛ/tɛ mǐn. : The daughter drinks / doesn't drink.