ŋuni
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Interrogative
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
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
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
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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Verb
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.