Bér

Verb vi.

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Français: Être grand, important, adulte
English: Big/important/grown up, to be
العربية: يكون كبيراً، مهماً، بالغاً

Source : the site’s first dictionary (Swadesh list)

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Hamadine AG MOCTAR (n.d.). Bér (Big/important/grown up, to be). Tadaksahak–French–English–Arabic dictionary. https://hamadine-services.net/en/dictionnaire/41-ber (accessed 2026-10-18)

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@misc{moctarbigimportantgrown,
  author = {Hamadine AG MOCTAR},
  title = {{Bér (Big/important/grown up, to be)}},
  howpublished = {Tadaksahak–French–English–Arabic dictionary},
  url = {https://hamadine-services.net/en/dictionnaire/41-ber},
  urldate = {2026-10-18}
}

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… ir máy Posseder Bun La mort mún verser Abáktaw vieux coussin abáktaw celui qui quitte le puit Áblaɣ brique ámlay viande sans graisse Alʒíb poche ajím mille B/f bér grand fér detacher Bún la mort fun percer Ʒiibíitan saletés jíifatan cadavres Ábram turban áfraw Ail Ṣǝṭǝb verser du loutre ṣǝṭef cracher B/d báy connaitre Day acheter Bíibi noir biidí os Yibrár être mauvais yídraɣ décorer

Ag Abdoussalam (s. d.), Structure grammaticale d’un parler berbéro-songhay du nord-est malien (tadaksahak) : éléments de linguistique, p. 6
… sed, as new vocabulary is very unlikly to come through Songhay. 1. One argument verbs Tamasheq gloss Tadaksahak causative other forms cognate gloss7 (1) be big ber semɣer imɣar to be big (2) be close man8 zehez nemehez ihaẓ to approach, be close ‘be close to/ approach each other’ anemihaz ‘proximity’ (3) cry hew selha ilha he cried (4) be dry qoq seɣer iɣar to be dry (5) eat enough kungu siwen tewant yawan to eat enough ‘having well eaten (n)’ (6) fall kaŋ ʃeder odda he fell …

Christiansen & Christiansen (2002), Some verb morphology features of Tadaksahak, or: Berber or Songhay, this is the question, p. 11
… of articulation with different voicing and adjacent points of articulations are given. (3) C b/m b/f b/d Contrasts with consonants báy bún abáktaw áblaɣ alʒíb bér bún ʒiibíitan ábram ṣǝṭǝb báy bíibi gloss to know to die old cushion chunk of earth pocket to be big to die dirt (pl) white turban to put on a belt to know to be black máy mún amákṭaṛ ámlay ajím fér fún jíifatan áfraw ṣǝṭef dáy biidí gloss to own to throw out leaving the well meat (kind of) thousand to open to pier …

Christiansen-Bolli (2010), A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali, p. 27
… ive (stative) verbs as well. (9) Simple verbs with two valencies a) b) c) root bíibi intransitive gloss be black transitive gloss blacken yáy be cold make cold bér be big enlarge ṭáy be moist moisten ʒén be old make old mán be close approach mór be distant distance dígdig be broken break mún be thrown out throw out lés be unclean make unclean yiɣmá be decorated decorate (leather) yiská be combed comb yiḷẓá be shaved shave yíɣfǝl be locked lock yídraɣ be decorated with metal d …

Christiansen-Bolli (2010), A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali, p. 72
… efinite but established entity. (35) datawa anga enda boren i-b-wi iharran enda imudaran old.times 3S.T COM people 3P-IMPF-kill lion.PL COM animal.PL [aɣondeno ber-anen]. REL.PL be.big-ADJZ.PL In olden times, it was with it (a large spear) that people killed lions and (other) big game. The following two examples of the relative pronoun strategy occur in equative clauses that explain the first evoked term. (36) Taradaq hincini [aɣo ʒen-i]. NAME goat REL be.old-ADJZ ‘Taradaq’ i …

Christiansen & Levinsohn (2003), Relative Clauses in Tadaksahak, p. 10

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