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Module 4
Module 4 ·
Sentences and expressions
Greetings, demonstratives, negation, basic conjugation.
7 lessons
≈ 86 min
5 lessons with listening
Start with 4.1
4.1
Greetings
Jeje, Kwezi, Wa fetre, Tsa fetre — the art of greeting in shikomori, between deference and openness.
Listening
Culture
10 min
4.2
Polite expressions
Thanks, okay, tired, I love you — and unpacking the verb « to love ».
Listening
12 min
4.3
Demonstratives
Unu, uwo, ule — three degrees of distance, agreeing with the noun class, and a strict spelling rule.
Listening
10 min
4.4
Negation
Nisila → Tsisila. Negation fuses into the verb — markers tsa-/tsi-/ka-/ku-.
Listening
12 min
4.5
Basic conjugation
Subject prefixes, tense markers, object and reflexive infixes — the full formula.
Listening
16 min
4.6
Imperative, subjunctive, relative, to be and to have
The other shimaoré tenses and moods, the auxiliaries uka and ukana, the passive and the reflexive.
Dialects
16 min
4.7
Asking questions
Who, what, where, when, how many: question words, their place at the end of the sentence, and questions by intonation.
Dialects
10 min
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