yízdaɣ

Verb v.

Translations

Français: Habiter dans ; habiter, vivre
English: to live in
العربية: يسكن في

Source : Christiansen-Bolli (2010), p. 187 ; p. 7, ex. 18 — French and Arabic meanings translated from English, to be checked by the community

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Hamadine AG MOCTAR (n.d.). yízdaɣ (to live in). Tadaksahak–French–English–Arabic dictionary. https://hamadine-services.net/en/dictionnaire/1810-yizdagh (accessed 2026-10-18)

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@misc{moctaryizda,
  author = {Hamadine AG MOCTAR},
  title = {{yízdaɣ (to live in)}},
  howpublished = {Tadaksahak–French–English–Arabic dictionary},
  url = {https://hamadine-services.net/en/dictionnaire/1810-yizdagh},
  urldate = {2026-10-18}
}

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… 04) Locational verbs with a direct object complement syntax gloss Etymology báara X be in X S keedí X be up on X S yíŋgǝr X be behind X T yígdǝl X be under X T yízdaɣ X live in X T With other verbs, movement and location are expressed by an adpositional complement, e.g. X zurú [Y ka] ‘X ran in Y’ and X keení [Y ka] ‘X lie on Y’. In Mainstream Songhay movement verbs always have a postpositional complement marked with the locative postposition /la ra/. In his grammar of Tamashe …

Christiansen-Bolli (2010), A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali, p. 205
… rongly marked entities. (234) a) wǝrtilla he b-máazal... there.is.not thing IMPERF-be.sent there is nothing that happens... b) wǝrtilla borá ándi nó báara(₌a?) yízdaɣ there.is.not person 2pO there exist(₌3s?) nǝ₌mmáay₌a FOC₌own₌3s live áa₌ka har until 3s₌LOC there is nobody [focus] who owns it (land) except you there who are (in it?), live in it. wǝrtilla sometimes takes a complement clause.

Christiansen-Bolli (2010), A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali, p. 263
… ive pronoun strategy, it occurs immediately after the relative pronoun. The following example illustrates the postposition ka. (18) A-Ø-yed in angu [aɣo ka i-Ø-yizdaɣ]. 3S-PERF-return 3P.GEN place REL LOC 3P-PERF-live He returned to the(ir) place where they live. In the gap strategy, the locative postposition occurs immediately after the head noun (‘place’, in example (19)). (19) A-f-kaykay har a-Ø-guna edag [# ka tahart a-Ø-hay]. 3S-IMPF-walk until 3S-PERF-see place LOC lion …

Christiansen & Levinsohn (2003), Relative Clauses in Tadaksahak, p. 7

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