húllǝn

Other spellings : hulen

Adverb adv.

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Français: Beaucoup
English: much
العربية: كثيرا

Source : Christiansen-Bolli (2010), p. 79 ; p. 193 ; p. 265 — French and Arabic meanings translated from English, to be checked by the community

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Hamadine AG MOCTAR (n.d.). húllǝn (much). Tadaksahak–French–English–Arabic dictionary. https://hamadine-services.net/en/dictionnaire/1426-hullen (accessed 2026-10-18)

BibTeX

@misc{moctarhulln,
  author = {Hamadine AG MOCTAR},
  title = {{húllǝn (much)}},
  howpublished = {Tadaksahak–French–English–Arabic dictionary},
  url = {https://hamadine-services.net/en/dictionnaire/1426-hullen},
  urldate = {2026-10-18}
}

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… spatio-temporal adverbs. 3.1.5.1 Manner The only manner adverbs which are regularly used are the following: (55) Manner adverbs quickly ʒik sallánda carefully húllǝn much Many verbs contain a ‘manner’ component and need therefore not be modified, e.g. tǝlǝss-ǝt ‘to walk lightly’, yíḍṛǝṇ ‘to return quickly’. Expressions like ‘doing a lot of something’ or ‘doing something of good quality’ are expressed as a verbal noun construction (4.3.3.1).

Christiansen-Bolli (2010), A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali, p. 97
… N F-SG-jujube.tree-F.SG gá self be se DAT LOC Ostrich was shaking himself very much up in the jujube tree. An alternative to this intensification is the adverb húllǝn ‘much’ that can be added to the verbal word. 4.3.4 Verbs with obligatory adpositional complement A small number of verbs obligatorily take an adpositional complement that expresses a location. An example of a verb that always takes a complement with a locative postposition is ‘to look down on’. (122) a₌b-ʃúgu ay …

Christiansen-Bolli (2010), A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali, p. 211

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