8.E. Exercises

Your are advised to print the tables with exercises and to fill in. The exercises form a separate page, therefore only the exercises will be printed.
You can check your answers using the Answer book.


Exercise 1 Translate into English: "Habo ra"
Zarma English
Boro marge no kaa ne hunkuna?
 
Ay si bay; ay mana di ey.
 
Gondi marge no ni di?
 
Ba afo. Ay si ba r’ey mo.
 
Iri na tira wo caw, amma a gay; a si te koyne.

 
I n’ay donton ŋwari ceciyan se.

 
Habu koyyan si fala.
 
Dela way cindi gu si jiney bobo day, amma boro ga du ŋwari hanno sohon.  
Dela waranka ihinka si, a si kilo fo ham day.
 
Ba boro kan ga ni bay, a si neera ni se fala.
 
Wayboro bobo ga kaa habu susubey kulu.
 
I ga kande haamo da kolkoti da labtanda da gunguri.  
Amma han kulu i s’i kulu neera.
 
Ni koy habu susub’o, wala?
 
Abada! Ay mana koy.
 
Ay mana ba fatta fuwo ra susub’o.
 
Wayborey kan ga kaa habu, i ga kaa ihinka-ihinka wala ihinza-ihinza; i si kaa afo-afo.
 

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Exercise 2 Translate into English: "Zanka darey"
Zarma English
Bi ay koy kwaara fo; zanka fo darey, ay mo n’a ceci.

 
Kwaara borey ne, zanka fo kaa i do; amma manti nga no kan iri go no ga ceci.


 
Amma boreydin mana cimi ci, zama zankadin go no.

 

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Exercise 3 Translate into Zarma "the snake"
Zarma English
Snakes come in the night.
 
One came to our door last night.
 
Did you see it? I didn’t.
 
I didn’t even look at it.
 
Even though it was dead,
I will not look at it.


 

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Exercise 4 Translate into Zarma: "Shopping"
English Zarma
Every morning a woman comes to my compound.

 
She sells beans, rice, onions, squash, and eggs.

 
I shall buy eggs three for two delas, but not a dela each.


 
There are not many oranges, but limes will do for us.


 
Limes are 8 for 2 delas. (the "for" is not transferable)


 

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Exercise 5 Translate into Zarma: "Food"
English Zarma
Africans make food with guinea corn, but white people like wheat.


 
Yesterday my mother didn’t buy meat, but today she will buy meat and also onions.


 
They will take the meat out of the dish.

 
They will take the money from the child.

 

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Exercise 6 Translate into Zarma: negative, past tense
English Zarma
We didn’t remove the oranges
 
We didn’t see the European
 
We didn’t obtain the money
 
We didn’t seek you (plural).
 
We didn’t know that African.
 

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Exercise 7 Translate into Zarma: negative, future tense
English Zarma
We won’t remove the oranges
 
We won’t see the European
 
We won’t obtain the money
 
We won’t seek you (plural).
 
We won’t know that African.
 

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Last updated: 11 maart 2012