Mán

Verb vi.

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Français: Être proche, approcher
English: Near, to be; approach, to
العربية: يكون قريباً، يقترب

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Hamadine AG MOCTAR (n.d.). Mán (Near, to be; approach, to). Tadaksahak–French–English–Arabic dictionary. https://hamadine-services.net/en/dictionnaire/234-man (accessed 2026-10-18)

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@misc{moctarnear,
  author = {Hamadine AG MOCTAR},
  title = {{Mán (Near, to be; approach, to)}},
  howpublished = {Tadaksahak–French–English–Arabic dictionary},
  url = {https://hamadine-services.net/en/dictionnaire/234-man},
  urldate = {2026-10-18}
}

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… syllabes se produit également dans les contextes où les morphèmes sont combinés. La resyllabisation a lieu lorsque le '2s' de ni₌ se combine avec des marqueurs MAN de la forme CV- avec une consonne initiale non évitée. '2s' est alors réalisé ǝn₌. ǝn₌sǝ-báy₌a ne le savez-vous pas ? 2s₌NEG.IMPERF-connaitre₌3s Lorsque la particule impérative wa ~ ba précède cette construction, ls schwa est supprimée. wá-(ǝ)n₌sǝ-d(a) aɣáy [ˈwansǝdaˈɣaj...] IMP-2S₌NEG.IMPERF-faire 1s. IO ne me fai …

Ag Abdoussalam (s. d.), Structure grammaticale d’un parler berbéro-songhay du nord-est malien (tadaksahak) : éléments de linguistique, p. 33
… ................................................74 3.1.4.1 Subject clitic .....................................................75 3.1.4.2 Mood-Aspect-Negation (MAN) morphemes ......76 3.1.4.3 Direct object clitic .............................................78 3.1.5 Adverbs...................................................................79 3.1.5.1 Manner.............................................................79 3.1.5.2 Spatio-temporal .................................. …

Christiansen-Bolli (2010), A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali, p. 6
… ...............169 4.1.9.1 Conjoining ənda ‘with, and’.............................169 4.1.9.2 Disjunctive meɣ, mádaɣ and wala ‘or’.............170 4.2 Uses of MAN morphemes.................................................171 4.2.1 Aspect: Perfective vs. Imperfective .......................172 4.2.2 Mood: Indicative vs. Subjuncitve m- ......................173 4.2.3 Future tə- ..............................................................174

Christiansen-Bolli (2010), A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali, p. 8
… t IMPF-lie puppies LOC …she (the lioness) found meat that was lying next to the cubs. Example (7) is of the sa-strategy. (7) A-b-ʃiʃken-an ayn nana se, [sa ayn man Aminata]. 3S-IMPF-greet-ALL 3S.GEN mother BEN COMPZR 3S.GEN name Aminata He greets his mother, whose name is Aminata. 2 Case recoverability strategies This section considers the grammatical relations that can be relativized by each of the strategies presented in sec. 1.2 (Payne 1997:326). Keenan and Comrie (1977) o …

Christiansen & Levinsohn (2003), Relative Clauses in Tadaksahak, p. 4
… L-PERF-reach-VEN here Get me the person who arrived here! The following example uses the gap strategy. (9) Sa itila aru [# Ø-ten i daw] i-te-dini a COMPZR each man PERF-arrive 3P LOC 3P-FUT-take 3S i-m-da a enda ṭamu. 3P-SUBJ-make 3S COM slave Each male who arrived at their (place) was taken to be made a slave. The following sentence illustrates the sa-strategy. (10) A-Ø-zaw surgay fo [sa itila zaɣri a-te-ŋa imuṇas iʃa]. 3S-PERF-marry woman INDEF COMPZR each day 3S-FUT-eat ca …

Christiansen & Levinsohn (2003), Relative Clauses in Tadaksahak, p. 5

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