Possessive Pronouns; Past Tense

This week has been a little slower. We have a big quiz tomorrow, so we have spent a lot of class time discussing it and the final week of class. Today, we discussed a few phrases, but mostly worked on our dialogs. I'm not going to put mine on here because it's pretty long and complicated. We're supposed to study it for the quiz tomorrow, but I can't remember all the different terms, so I'll have to simplify it. For today's post, I'm going to just share a few things we were supposed to study in the book over the weekend: possessive pronouns and the past tense.

Possessive Pronouns:
me = my
wo = your
ne = his / her
yεn = our
mo = your
w⊃⊃nom / ⊃⊃mo = their

S⊃ka

Great news: Ghana is moving on to the round of 16!!
Just thought I'd throw that in here...
The next game is against the USA- that's going to be hard to watch.

Terms of Time; Idiomatic Expressions; Serial Verbs

Today, we spent half the day practicing numbers 1-10. As difficult as they are to remember, it became a bit too redundant. We just need to practice on our own. Does anyone out there have a good suggestion for remembering the basic numbers and the tens?

The second half was focused on "expressions of time" and translating verb conjugations. Both of these aspects are crucial to basic conversation in Twi. Here are some of the most important terms for time:

an⊃pa [ana-pa] = morning
awia [ay-wee-ah] = noon / afternoon / sun
anwumerε [an-womay-reh] = evening
anadwo [ana-jwoh] = night
εnnora [ehn-norah] = yesterday
εnnε [ehn-neh] = today
⊃kyena [aw-chenah] = tomorrow
seesei [saay-say] = now
seesei ara = right now ("ara" puts emphasis on "seesei")
akyire yi [aw-chireh yee] = later ("yi" puts emphasis on "akyire")

Pluralizing nouns, Negative & Perfect Tenses

Fakyε me (forgive me) because this entry is a day late. "Fakyε me," or "Mo mfa nkyε me" in long form, implies that you're guilty and you're asking for the people you kept waiting to forgive you.

At the end of yesterday's session, we learned the Twi words for day, week, month, and year. Today, we'll learn how to transform them into plural forms. It's very tricky. Our teacher wants us to focus on a few main rules for pluralizing, rather than try to remember all of them. If pluralizing sounds really complicated, it is. Way too complicated! Here are the main rules and several examples:

• Replace beginning vowels with the prefix "a-" for words that begin with e ε o ⊃
• ⊃dan (house) --> adan (houses)
• bosome (month) --> abosome (months)