How to use demonstrative pronouns in Lingala

How to use demonstrative pronouns in Lingala

You want to learn how to use demonstrative pronouns in Lingala? You've come to the right place! Scroll down and see the short Lingala lessons complete with useful examples. This house, that house... we make learning Lingala demonstrative pronouns easy for you.

Lingala demonstrative pronouns : this

Demonstrative pronouns are used with nouns to make them more specific. The English demonstrative pronoun 'this' is 'oyo awa' in Lingala.

Examples

mwasi oyo awa
this woman
libanga oyo awa
this stone
kiti oyo awa
this chair
ndako oyo awa
this house
mbuma oyo awa
this apple
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Step 6 : Lingala demonstrative pronouns

Demonstrative pronouns are used to refer to specific objects and their locations. In English, this would be the words this and these to refer to objects which are near and that and those to refer to objects which are further away. Using the nouns buku, kiti and ekuke (book, chair, door) which you learned in Step 3, learn to use the demonstrative pronouns with each of these nouns (this book, that chair, these doors). You can scroll to the top of this page to see a short lesson about Lingala demonstrative pronouns including useful examples. After you've learned to use the Lingala demonstrative pronouns with the nouns buku, kiti and ekuke and the plural nouns babuku, bakiti and bikuke you can move on to Step 7 (Lingala adjectives).

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