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ŋuni

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Interrogative

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who?

  • Ŋuni n-lee bala? Who is that?
  • Ka ŋuni n-lee tum tuuni ŋɔ? So who can have done this?
  • A yi nya a sim-kuro ka ŋuni a ni ŋuni a sim-palo gba. If you see your old friend and hide, you will also hide from your new friend.
  • o di zo nti ŋunila gunyɔɣu ni he ran away to hide in a hollow kapok tree.
  • guui•nti•sǤdzi cham’ ... nti ŋuni kuɣa din duhiya la lɔŋni go ... and hide under the stone-pile.
  • Dabisili ti paai wɔbigu ka o ŋuni tutuɣu ni. A day will come when an elephant hides under a shrub.

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Verb

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to hide

  • Ŋuni n-lee bala? Who is that?
  • Ka ŋuni n-lee tum tuuni ŋɔ? So who can have done this?
  • A yi nya a sim-kuro ka ŋuni a ni ŋuni a sim-palo gba. If you see your old friend and hide, you will also hide from your new friend.
  • o di zo nti ŋunila gunyɔɣu ni he ran away to hide in a hollow kapok tree.
  • guui•nti•sǤdzi cham’ ... nti ŋuni kuɣa din duhiya la lɔŋni go ... and hide under the stone-pile.
  • Dabisili ti paai wɔbigu ka o ŋuni tutuɣu ni. A day will come when an elephant hides under a shrub.

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Pronoun

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he/she who ... [third person pronoun, animate, singular, relative]

  • Ŋuni n-lee bala? Who is that?
  • Ka ŋuni n-lee tum tuuni ŋɔ? So who can have done this?
  • A yi nya a sim-kuro ka ŋuni a ni ŋuni a sim-palo gba. If you see your old friend and hide, you will also hide from your new friend.
  • o di zo nti ŋunila gunyɔɣu ni he ran away to hide in a hollow kapok tree.
  • guui•nti•sǤdzi cham’ ... nti ŋuni kuɣa din duhiya la lɔŋni go ... and hide under the stone-pile.
  • Dabisili ti paai wɔbigu ka o ŋuni tutuɣu ni. A day will come when an elephant hides under a shrub.

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Verb

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to sit on eggs (as bird)

  • noon’ so ŋun ŋuni o ni bi nyɛ gal’ shɛŋa zuɣu n-wɔɣi li a bird that broods eggs it hasn't laid and hatches them.
  • Tintiringa nye o galli, zuŋguluŋ mi ku deei ŋuni. The tiny tintiringa bird lays its egg and a big bird will not collect it and brood it.

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to stoop down

  • KO n-sɔɣi ŋuniya mal’ li (piɛma)/ tɔri ninvuɣ’ so ŋun ka taali; They shoot them (arrows) from ambush at the innocent man;
  • kaman yi ni yɛn niŋ dikili ŋmaŋ bee kikara din kab’ ŋuniya m-bɔri ni di lu shɛm la as you would do to a cracked wall or partitions that break and lean(?), wanting to fall.