Malagasy Nouns

Welcome to the third Malagasy lesson about nouns. This time we will first learn about fruits and vegetables, followed by grammar rules, then food items, finally a conversation in Malagasy to help you practice your daily phrases.

potatoes ovy

tomatoes voatabia

onions tongolo

carrots karaoty

fruits voankazo

apples paoma

bananas akondro

oranges voasary

Nouns Grammar Rules

In general nouns refer to a person, an object, or abstract ideas. For example: a fast runner the noun is [runner] because it refers to a person. The examples below use nouns in different ways and places to demonstrate how they behave in a sentence.

Grammar + Rules - Malagasy
do you have milk? [verb + noun] manana ronono ve ianao?
I have milk and coffee [preposition + noun] manana ronono sy kafe aho
he has three apples [number + plural noun] manana paoma telo izy
she only has one apple [number + singular noun] iray fotsiny ny paomany
we live in a small house [adjective + noun] mipetraka amin'ny trano kely izahay
I like our breakfast [pronoun + noun] tiako ny sakafoa marainanao

The following are nouns of food items that you might be interested in learning and memorizing.

bread mofo dipaina

milk ronono

butter dibera

cheese fraomazy

coffee kafe

sandwich sandwich

meat hena

chicken akoho

fish trondro

breakfast sakafo maraina

lunch sakafo atoandro

dinner sakafo hariva

Conversation in Malagasy

Now we finally reach the fun part, the practice of the daily conversations. These phrases are used to get to know new people, and break the ice.

English - Malagasy
Do you speak (English/ Malagasy)? miteny (anglisy/malagasy) ve ianao?
Just a little kelikely fotsiny
I like Malagasy tiako ny teny malagasy
Can I practice with you? afaka manao fanazarana miaraka aminao ve aho?
How old are you? firy taona ianao
I'm thirty three years old telo amby telopolo aho
It was nice talking to you nahafinaritra ny niresaka taminao

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