bén

Verb vt.

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Français: Finir, achever
English: to finish
العربية: أنهى

Source : Christiansen-Bolli (2010), annexe IV — French and Arabic meanings translated from English, to be checked by the community

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Hamadine AG MOCTAR (n.d.). bén (to finish). Tadaksahak–French–English–Arabic dictionary. https://hamadine-services.net/en/dictionnaire/558-ben (accessed 2026-10-18)

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@misc{moctarfinish,
  author = {Hamadine AG MOCTAR},
  title = {{bén (to finish)}},
  howpublished = {Tadaksahak–French–English–Arabic dictionary},
  url = {https://hamadine-services.net/en/dictionnaire/558-ben},
  urldate = {2026-10-18}
}

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… la dynastie idrisside et, indirectement, la mémoire généalogique des Idaksahak. Idriss I épouse Kenza al-Awrabiya, une femme de la tribu Awraba, fille d’Ishaq ben Mohammed ben Hammid, chef de la tribu, alliance qui consolide son implantation politique et sociale dans le nord du Maroc. (Wikipédia) Cette union n’est pas une simple anecdote : elle fonde la dynastie idrisside et inscrit dans l’histoire une fusion de lignées arabes (alides) et amazighes (Awraba). La naissance à l …

Ag Salah (2026), Origine des Idaksahaks — Histoire, généalogie et sources, chap. 8 « Langue, culture et preuves anthropologiques des Idaksahak : une identité enracinée dans l’histoire », p. 22
… hay verbs accept the suffix -andi which makes the causative of intransitive verbs (and a few transitives), and the factive of verbs of adjectival quality.2 (1) ben ‘finish’ ben-andi ‘cause to end’ (2) too ‘arrive’ too-ndi ‘deliver’ Example pairs (3./4.) and (5./6.) demonstrate noncausative and causative constructions with the same verb. (3) Salangawey ga mooru. toilet.PLDEF TAM be.distant ‘The toilets are distant.’ 1Abbreviations used BEN benefactive postposition NP noun phra …

Christiansen & Christiansen (2002), Some verb morphology features of Tadaksahak, or: Berber or Songhay, this is the question, p. 4
… ‘The donkey stumbled so that it almost fell.’ (12) Bora a-b-dida har tugudu a-Ø-yinṭel a se a-Ø-ne-gertetef. person 3s-TAM-walk TMP tree 3s-TAM-hit.against 3s BEN 3s-TAM-REF-stumble ‘Somebody was walking when he hit against a tree stump and stumbled.’

Christiansen & Christiansen (2002), Some verb morphology features of Tadaksahak, or: Berber or Songhay, this is the question, p. 6
… ʃil 3s₌CAUS-oblige áa₌se hawru 3s₌DAT meal she made him finish the meal. b) a₌ss-ǝgmi 3s₌CAUS-look.for.BND áa₌s(e) 3s₌DAT he sent him for a burning coal. n GEN bén finish.VN a-mámel SG-burning.coal Examples of non-human pronominalized complements and other details on the causative construction are found under 4.3.7. instrumental--comitative complement (ǝnda) 4.3.6 Verbs with instrumental The instrumental-comitative preposition ǝnda appears with two semantically different kind …

Christiansen-Bolli (2010), A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali, p. 212
278 b) igdá / ǝndár a₌bbáy because if 3s₌DAT other.world áa₌se a₌sǝ-d(á) aláxar 3s₌know áa₌se 3s₌NEG.IMPERF-do 3s₌BEN hó báara thing.DEBR be.in hé yibrár-an. thing be.bad-ADJZR because if she knew what was for her in the other world she would not do anything bad to him. c) ciimí aɣo (ǝ)nda hinká (a₌cc(i) sa t-a-dáqqa-t óoda sa (ǝ)n₌tǝ-záw-kat₌a truth DET with COMP F-SG-road-F.SG two 3s₌say DEM.NEAR COMP 2s₌FUT-take-VEN₌3s ǝndár áa₌se) 3s₌DAT aɣa₌bbáy if aɣ₌sǝ-dá-kat₌a. 1s₌kno …

Christiansen-Bolli (2010), A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali, p. 296

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