Ci ná hó

Expression phrase

Translations

Français: Quoi (non-humain) ?
English: What (non-human)?
العربية: ماذا (غير بشر)؟

Source : the site’s first dictionary (Interrogatives)

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Hamadine AG MOCTAR (n.d.). Ci ná hó (What (non-human)?). Tadaksahak–French–English–Arabic dictionary. https://hamadine-services.net/en/dictionnaire/59-ci-na-ho (accessed 2026-10-18)

BibTeX

@misc{moctarwhat,
  author = {Hamadine AG MOCTAR},
  title = {{Ci ná hó (What (non-human)?)}},
  howpublished = {Tadaksahak–French–English–Arabic dictionary},
  url = {https://hamadine-services.net/en/dictionnaire/59-ci-na-ho},
  urldate = {2026-10-18}
}

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… to be vi. kóoray who?/what? interrogative pron. ci Y - y year n. a-wátay yellow, to be vi. yará yaráɣɣ you (pl) ind. pron. ándi 320 why? interrogative phrase. ci ná hó be vi. yilwá n. surgóy n. héw n. áfraw vt. tús vi. tús n. tús wide, to be wife wind wing wipe out, to wiped out, to be wiping out with (company) ǝnda comitative prep. with (instrument) (instrumental) prep. ǝnda withhold sth., to idiom káy he be woman n. surgóy you (sg) ind. pron. nín young one n. ízzay

Christiansen-Bolli (2010), A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali, p. 338
… on. who/what? interrogative word asking for the identity of a person/item ◀ cin ‘what?’ KS:69; mey ‘who?’ KCH:194 ná--a interrogative phrase. what is it? ci ná ci ná hó be interrogative phrase. why? cí n. similar thing, kind ◀ sii ‘kind, type’ KCH:219; cine adj ‘semblable’ KS:70 cí vt. to say sth. to sb.; also used before quotation ◀ cii ‘speak’ KCH:59 — vi. to want to cíid--an cíidaw n. bird (general) ◀ cirow ‘bird’ KCH:62 pl. cíid cíday n. underneath ◀ cire postp. ‘under’ K …

Christiansen-Bolli (2010), A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali, p. 342
… ]. 3S-NEG.IMPF-do 3S BEN thing be.bad-ADJZ If she had known what was in the next world for her, she would not have done anything bad to him (her husband). (51) Ci na ho [# ni-Ø-baɣa]? QST DET thing.DET 2S-PERF-want What do you want? (Lit., What (is) the thing that you want?) ne ‘place’ The noun ne ‘place’ is inherently definite, as is shown by the fact that it cannot be modified by the indefinite adjective fo. To be acceptable, ne in the following ungrammatical sentence would …

Christiansen & Levinsohn (2003), Relative Clauses in Tadaksahak, p. 12

Ci ná hó

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