Beer-i

Adjective adj.

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Français: Grand
English: Big
العربية: كبير

Source : the site’s first dictionary (Adjectives)

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Hamadine AG MOCTAR (n.d.). Beer-i (Big). Tadaksahak–French–English–Arabic dictionary. https://hamadine-services.net/en/dictionnaire/32-beer-i (accessed 2026-10-18)

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@misc{moctarbeeri,
  author = {Hamadine AG MOCTAR},
  title = {{Beer-i (Big)}},
  howpublished = {Tadaksahak–French–English–Arabic dictionary},
  url = {https://hamadine-services.net/en/dictionnaire/32-beer-i},
  urldate = {2026-10-18}
}

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… nate kinship terms and animals. Similar expressions are found in Mainstream Songhay. In Tadaksahak, only one adjective is found in this kind of compound nouns, beer-í ‘big’, e.g. (110) Noun-adjective compounds grandmother (Lit: big mother) nana béer-i mother be.big-ADJZR baba béer-i grandfather (Lit: big father) father be.big-ADJZR The other forms correspond to actual verbs. (111) Noun-verb compounds naná ceená maternal aunt (Lit: little mother) mother be.small naná fumbú ste …

Christiansen-Bolli (2010), A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali, p. 134
… rate high frequency adjectives with suffix -i under (a) and suffix -u under (b) (152) Songhay derivation a) b) verb ʒen gloss to be old adjective ber to be big beer-í qoq to be dry qooɣ-í ṇas to be fat ṇaas-ú baq to be broken baaq-ú ʒeen-í Three Songhay cognates use no segmental derivational morpheme to serve as noun modifier, viz. the basic color terms ‘white’, ‘black’ and ‘red/brown’.

Christiansen-Bolli (2010), A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali, p. 152

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