ɓe

See also: Appendix:Variations of "be"

Fula

Dialectal variants

• ɓen (Pular)

Suffix

ɓe

1. Noun class indicator for nouns (plural) especially humans

Usage notes

• Common to all varieties of Fula (Fulfulde / Pulaar / Pular).

Article

ɓe

1. (definite) the (when it follows the noun)

   yimɓe ɓe ― the people

   Nyannde fuu sukaaɓe ɓe na njakkoo taa kulle naata gese muɓɓen.

   Every day the children diligently guard against the animals getting into their fields.

Usage notes

• Common to all varieties of Fula (Fulfulde / Pulaar / Pular).

Determiner

ɓe

1. (used in indicating something)

   ɓe yimɓe ― these / those people

Usage notes

• Common to all varieties of Fula (Fulfulde / Pulaar / Pular).

Pronoun

ɓe

1. subject pronoun they

   Ɓe adi donle maɓɓe ɗen.

   They transported their baggage.

2. object pronoun them

   O yamiri ɓe yahugol.

   He ordered them to go.

   Delegasiyon ittaama ko yahana ɓe.

   A delegation was sent to look for them.

3. relative pronoun who, whom

   Mi yi'ii yimɓe ɓe coonnirnoomi baali ley luumo hannden.

   I saw the people to whom I had sold the sheep in market today.

Usage notes

• This word takes many grammatical roles and the difficulty in classifying it into Western grammatical groupings leads to a large variation in its classification

Related terms

• aɓe
• eɓe
• hiɓe
• homɓe
• iɓe
• kamɓe
• ɓeye
• ɓeɗi
• ɓeɗon

 

References

• Oumar Bah, Dictionnaire Pular-Français, Avec un index français-pular, Webonary.org, SIL International, 2014.
• Richard Smith, Urs Niggli, Dictionnaire fulfulde - anglais - français, Webonary.org, SIL International, 2016.
• M. Niang, Pulaar-English English-Pulaar Standard Dictionary, New York: Hippocrene Books, 1997.