Yoruba Nouns
Welcome to the third Yoruba lesson about nouns. This time we will first learn about fruits and vegetables, followed by grammar rules, then food items, finally a conversation in Yoruba to help you practice your daily phrases.
potatoes anamo |
tomatoes tomati |
onions alubosa |
carrots karots |
fruits awon eso |
apples apus |
bananas ogede |
oranges orombo |
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 - Yoruba |
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| do you have milk? [verb + noun] nje o ni wara? |
| I have milk and coffee [preposition + noun] mo ni wara ati kofi |
| he has three apples [number + plural noun] o ni apu meta |
| she only has one apple [number + singular noun] o ni apu kan |
| we live in a small house [adjective + noun] a ngbe ninu ile kekere kan |
| I like our breakfast [pronoun + noun] mo feran ounje aaro wa |
The following are nouns of food items that you might be interested in learning and memorizing.
bread buredi |
milk wara |
butter bota |
cheese wara-kasi |
coffee kofi |
sandwich ounje-ipanu |
meat eran |
chicken adiye |
fish eja |
breakfast ounje aaro |
lunch ounje osan |
dinner ounje ale |
Conversation in Yoruba
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 - Yoruba |
|---|
| Do you speak (English/ Yoruba)? nje o nso (geesi/punjabi)? |
| Just a little die na ni |
| I like Yoruba mo feran punjabi |
| Can I practice with you? se mo le so pelu re? |
| How old are you? omo odun melo ni e? |
| I'm thirty three years old mo je omo odun meta-le-logbon |
| It was nice talking to you o dara lati ba e soro |
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