Mo ka

Expression phrase

Translations

Français: Avant quelqu’un
English: Before somebody
العربية: قبل شخص

Source : the site’s first dictionary (Grammar)

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Hamadine AG MOCTAR (n.d.). Mo ka (Before somebody). Tadaksahak–French–English–Arabic dictionary. https://hamadine-services.net/en/dictionnaire/227-mo-ka (accessed 2026-10-18)

BibTeX

@misc{moctarbefore,
  author = {Hamadine AG MOCTAR},
  title = {{Mo ka (Before somebody)}},
  howpublished = {Tadaksahak–French–English–Arabic dictionary},
  url = {https://hamadine-services.net/en/dictionnaire/227-mo-ka},
  urldate = {2026-10-18}
}

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… daw B - b back (bodypart) n. a-rúuru bad adj. agar bad, to be vi. yibrár bark n. barjí battery n. ṭóndi because conj. igdá ~ iddá ~ íd before s.b. noun phrase. mo ka. beginning n. baŋg baŋgú ú belly n. guŋg guŋgú ú big, to be vi. bêr big, to make vt. bêr bird (general) n. cíidaw C - c carve (wooden spoon), to vt. kár child n. báarar cloud npl. nuun nuun--én cold (weather) n. fufú come, to vi. kóy kóy--kat count, to vt. ʃ-iḍǝn D - d day n. zaɣrí zaɣrí dead, to be vi. bún death …

Christiansen-Bolli (2010), A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali, p. 332
… ito pl. miyá kukkuk-én mó vi. to hear (noise) ◀ mom ‘hear’ KCH:198 — vt. to have news about s.th mó--n mó n. eye; face ◀ moo ‘eye, pair of eyes’ KCH:196 pl. mó mó ka noun phrase. before sb. dá mó idiom to be blind on one eye mór vi. to be far away ◀ moor ‘be or go far, go deep, be distant’ KCH:198 — vt. to distance from mún vi. to be thrown out — vt. to throw out ◀ mun ‘spill, dump, pour’ KCH:200; KS:249 — n. pouring pl. muunmuun-én musáy vi. to be soft — vt. to soften sth. b …

Christiansen-Bolli (2010), A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali, p. 352
… e locative is used, and occurs immediately after the relative pronoun. The following example contains two relative clauses. (22) Zaɣri [aɣo ka ni-sebded i aɣan mo ka], day REL LOC 2S-stop 3P 1S.GEN face LOC zaɣri [aɣo ayda] aɣa-b-na ana taɣit day REL same 1S-IMPF-give 2S.BEN heifer The day that you bring them before me, that same day (lit., day that [is] same) I will give you a heifer… However, temporal relative clauses are sometimes separated from their head noun by one of t …

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

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