Colloquial Somali Unit 3
Terms
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- boosto
- post office
- boostada
- the post office
- xaggee
- where (lit. which direction)
- adigu
- you
- suuq
- m, d2, market
- ku
- you
- raac
- to accompany
- maxaad soo iibsanaysaa
- what will you buy?
- hilib
- m, d3, meat
- bariis
- m, d2, mass, rice
- khudrad
- f, d1, collec, vegetables
- waa tan
- here is (f.) (lit. it is this)
- saaxiibkayga
- my friend
- u
- to
- dir
- to send
- subject case feminine nouns
- take -I if end in a consonant
- Nin shaah wuu cabbay.
- A man drank tea.
- Shaleyto bariis waan cunay.
- Yestarday I ate rice.
- Noun+ka
- masc. absolutive case
- Noun+ku
- masc. subject case
- Noun+ta
- fem. Absolutive case
- Noun+tu
- fem. Subject case
- noun+kii
- masc. (absolutive case takes stress tone)
- Noun+tii
- fem. (absolutive case takes stress tone)
- kii and tii
- used when the noun has previously been referred to, or is referred to in the past, like that or those
- ka, ta, ku, and tu
- used when a noun is referred to for the first time in a conversation or is used in the future or present
- dukaanka
- the shop
- koobka
- the cup
- galabta
- the afternoon
- naagaha
- the women
- baabuurraha
- the trucks
- nabadda
- the peace
- gabadhii
- the girl
- nouns ending in o+definite article
- t-->d, o-->a
- mindida
- the knife
- hashii
- the female camel
- subaxda
- the morning
- inammada
- the boys
- madaxda
- the head
- suuqii
- the market
- ruhu
- the frog
- magicii
- the name
- k from the article after a gutteral consonant
- disappears
- final vowel short a and final consonant gutteral
- final vowel changes to same vowel as definite article
- k after all vowels but I
- changes to h, and final vowel matches vowel of def art, but short
- baraha
- the teacher
- gacmihii
- the hands
- k after g,I,w,y
- becomes g
- gurigii
- the house
- eyga
- the dog
- cadowgii
- the enemy
- khamiis
- f.. Thursday
- soo mar
- to pass along
- jid
- m., d4, street
- bartame
- m, d7, center
- magaalo
- f, d6, town
- ku yaal
- which is in
- hawo
- f, d6, air, weather
- kulayl
- m, heat, hot
- arkaa
- he sees
- magaciisu
- his name (subj)
- ma la wanaagsanyahay
- are you well?
- bal
- and as to⬦
- adiga
- you (emphatic)
- booqanayaa
- I am visiting
- booqo
- conj 3B, to visit
- meel
- f, d1, place
- dhow
- near
- deggentahay
- she lives
- sow ma aha
- is it not, isn't it?
- aad iyo aad
- very much so
- waan harraadsanahay
- I am thirsty
- decl 4
- stress tone on penultimate vowel in sg, none in pl, sg masc, pl fem, monosyllabic, end in consonant, add a+copy of final consonant to make pl.
- miis
- table
- miisas
- tables
- af
- mouth, language
- afaf
- mouths, languages
- qoys
- family
- qoysas
- families
- nin
- man
- niman
- men
- dab
- fire
- buugag
- books
- dabab
- fires
- koobab
- cups
- roobab
- rains
- roob
- raidaln
- daal
- country
- daalal
- countries
- san
- nose
- sanan
- noses
- decl 5
- sg stress on penultimate vowel, pl stress on final vowel, sg masc, pl fem, 1-3 syll but never monosyllabic with short vowel, no change for pl except gener and stress
- ey
- dog
- Soomaali
- Somali
- madax
- head (can also be decl 2)
- ardey
- student
- caday
- mishwak
- awr
- burden camel
- haad
- large birds (birds of prey)
- Carab
- Arabs
- dibi
- bulls
- conj 2A
- adds -I to basic verb form to create causative form
- Ninku waa toosay/
- The man got up.
- Ninku waa toosiyay.
- The man caused him to get up.
- I suffix also forms
- transitive verbs from intransitive verbs
- Bariisku waa karay.
- The rice boiled/cooked.
- Bariiska wuu kariyay.
- He boiled/cooked the rice.
- jab
- to break
- daaq
- to graze
- daaji
- to cause to graze, pasture
- hagaah
- to be straight
- hagaaji
- to straighten, mend
- final g or q-->?
- j
- I suffix + verb ending in a+gutteral, a-->
- I
- bax
- to leave
- bixi
- to cause to leave, extract, pay (money)
- ba'
- to be destroyed
- bi'I
- to destroy
- kariyay
- I, he cooked
- karisay
- you, she cooked
- karinnay
- we cooked
- kariseen
- yall cooked
- kariyeen
- they cooked
- karinayaa
- I am cooking, he is cooking
- karinaysaa
- you are cooking, she is cooking
- karinaynaa
- we are cooking
- karinaysaan
- yall are cooking
- karinayaan
- they are cooking
- jooji
- to stop
- dhoofi
- to export
- bixiya
- pay (pl)!
- kariya!
- Cook (pl.) it!
- Waa maxay?
- What is it?
- axad, axadda
- Sunday
- isniin, isniinta
- Monday
- salaasa, salaasada (talaada)
- Tuesday
- arbaca, arbacada
- Wednesday
- khamiis, khamiista
- Thursday
- jimce, jimcaha
- Friday
- sabti, sabtida
- Saturday
- days in the past take? Days in the present and future take?
- kii/tii, ka/ta
- subax
- f, d2, morning
- subaxnimo
- f, d6, in the morning (lit morningness)
- qol
- m, d4, room
- carruur
- f, collec, children
- masaajid
- m, d2, mosque
- wada
- together (always placed just bf the verb)
- quraacanayaa
- is having breakfast
- quraac
- f, d2, breakfast
- ka dib
- sfter
- dugsi
- m, d2, school
- joogaan
- they are at
- joog
- decl 1, to be in a place for people and animals
- salaan (salaamaa)
- decl 1, to greet
- fiicantihiin
- yall are well
- fiicannahay
- we are well
- hees
- f, d1, song
- qaad
- decl 1, to take, to sing when used with hees