Idiom
English |
Zarma |
now |
sohon |
now directly |
sohon-sohon |
about this
time |
danga sohon
wato |
this time
tomorrow |
suba yacine |
this time
tomorrow |
suba mansancine |
this time
Saturday |
Assibiti mansancine |
you haven't
told me yet |
ni mana
ci ay se jina |
you have
already seen it |
ni jin
ga di a |
in a
little while we will eat |
a tonton
kayna iri ga
ŋwari |
after dinner |
hawrey banda |
just a bit
ago I told him |
jinjina
ay ci a se |
it´s been
a little while since he
came out |
a gay
kayna, a farta |
before Abdou
arrived, I was studying |
za Abdou
mana
kaa, ay go go caw |
formerly
it was here he worked |
doŋ
ne no a goy |
formerly, I
couldn't speak Zarma |
watodin, ay
si ma Zarma cine |
in the past, Arlit was a small town |
watodin,
Arlit ya kwaara kayna no |
in those
days, Zinder was the capital
of Niger |
watodin,
Niger kapitalo go Zinder
|
a long
time ago he said he
would come |
za watifo
a ne nga ga ga kaa |
we have know
him, it's been a long
time |
iri n´a bay,
a gay |