ǝŋgám

Noun n.

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Français: Instant
English: instant
العربية: لحظة

Source : Christiansen-Bolli (2010), p. 209 ; p. 266 — French and Arabic meanings translated from English, to be checked by the community

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Hamadine AG MOCTAR (n.d.). ǝŋgám (instant). Tadaksahak–French–English–Arabic dictionary. https://hamadine-services.net/en/dictionnaire/1862-enggam (accessed 2026-10-18)

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@misc{moctarinstant,
  author = {Hamadine AG MOCTAR},
  title = {{ǝŋgám (instant)}},
  howpublished = {Tadaksahak–French–English–Arabic dictionary},
  url = {https://hamadine-services.net/en/dictionnaire/1862-enggam},
  urldate = {2026-10-18}
}

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209 Syntax b) nín 2s.EMP s(a) a₌ddá íizac(e) ooda a₌b-mó young.man DEM.NEAR COMP 3s₌make aṇṇúdr(a) aɣo n promise (a)₌se 3s₌IMPERF-hear 3s₌DAT DET GEN ǝŋgám instant you need to know, this young man heard her make this promise mentioned before. The interpretation of the complement in the last example is ambiguous. It could also be read as ‘when she made…’ with the clause initial particle sa ‘when’. See the use of ‘see’ and ‘hear’ with a verbal noun complement under 4.3.10.2. ‘w …

Christiansen-Bolli (2010), A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali, p. 227
… or ‘distant from here’ (ex. aɣónda-no béer-ǝnǝn DET.PL-there be.big-ADJZ.PL ‘those big ones there’ (see 4.1.4, also Ex (64)), and it appears following the noun ǝŋgám ‘instant’ and indicates ‘past in time’ (e.g. ǝŋgám-ǝ-no /instant-[ǝ]-there/ ‘mentioned before’). These meanings can be seen as temporal interpretations of ‘there, away in space’. A typical presentational expression for an item in the distance has the following structure. (180) a) aɣa₌n 1s₌GEN húgu house nóo-(a-)s …

Christiansen-Bolli (2010), A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali, p. 237

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