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Afrikan Language Institute => Akan (Twi) Language Resources => Topic started by: Agya Yaw on Feb 11, 2017, 03:46 PM

Title: Nkyerɛaseɛ-gctid221206
Post by: Agya Yaw on Feb 11, 2017, 03:46 PM
Mepa wo kyɛw kyerɛ osuo rebɛtɔ aseɛ. Meda ase.

I think the book I have might be wrong in translation.
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Title: Nkyerɛaseɛ-gctid221221
Post by: Ɔbenfo Ọbádélé on Feb 11, 2017, 10:44 PM
QuoteAgya Yaw;221206 wrote: Mepa wo kyɛw kyerɛ osuo rebɛtɔ aseɛ. Meda ase.

I think the book I have might be wrong in translation.
 @Obadele Kambon

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Rain finta fall.

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Title: Nkyerɛaseɛ-gctid221228
Post by: Agya Yaw on Feb 11, 2017, 11:15 PM
Is that an idiom in a way? Or in this context does the verb tɔ mean something else?

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Post by: Ɔbenfo Ọbádélé on Feb 12, 2017, 05:48 AM
QuoteAgya Yaw;221228 wrote: Is that an idiom in a way? Or in this context does the verb tɔ mean something else?

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No, it's to fall. In english, one says it rains without specifying what the "it" is. In Twi rain is what falls so one simply says rain fell, rain is falling, rain finta fall, kwk.
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