iʒwar

Adverb adv.

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Français: Presque
English: almost
العربية: تقريبا

Source : Ag Abdoussalam (s. d.), p. 30 — English and Arabic meanings translated from French, to be checked by the community

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Hamadine AG MOCTAR (n.d.). iʒwar (almost). Tadaksahak–French–English–Arabic dictionary. https://hamadine-services.net/en/dictionnaire/1185-izhwar (accessed 2026-10-18)

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@misc{moctariwar,
  author = {Hamadine AG MOCTAR},
  title = {{iʒwar (almost)}},
  howpublished = {Tadaksahak–French–English–Arabic dictionary},
  url = {https://hamadine-services.net/en/dictionnaire/1185-izhwar},
  urldate = {2026-10-18}
}

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… se rencontrent à la frontière des mots. Prenons l'exemple d'une courte phrase prononcée par une personne en visite : [iʒwarˈtʃiʤaˈdːæʔ/ haˈdizaxtǝjidˈwaˈhiʤɛn] Iʒwar cíj(i) a₌ddá h(e) adí z(a), aɣ₌tǝ-yidwá híj-en Presque nuit 3s₌faire chose ANA LC 1s₌FUT-retour camp-PL Il fait presque nuit, alors je vais rentrer chez moi. A moins d'une courte pause comme dans cet exemple pour marquer la fin du premier énoncé, les voyelles finales sont supprimées à de nombreux endroits : nom + …

Ag Abdoussalam (s. d.), Structure grammaticale d’un parler berbéro-songhay du nord-est malien (tadaksahak) : éléments de linguistique, p. 30
… ere vowels meet each other at word boundaries. To illustrate just a short utterance said by a visiting person: (59) [iʒwarˈtʃiʤaˈdːæʔ / haˈdizaxtǝjidˈwaˈhiʤɛn] iʒwar cíj(i) a₌ddá h(e) adí z(a) aɣ₌tǝ-yidwá híj-en almost night 3s₌do thing ANA LC 1s₌FUT-return camp-PL it is almost night, so I will return home. Unless there is a short pause as in this example to mark the end of the first statement, final vowels are dropped in many places: noun + conjugated verb; discourse particl …

Christiansen-Bolli (2010), A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali, p. 56

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