How to use demonstrative pronouns in Yoruba

How to use demonstrative pronouns in Yoruba

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

Yoruba demonstrative pronouns : this

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

Examples

iwe yi
this book
omobìnrin yi
this girl
obìnrin yi
this woman
okùnrin yi
this man
omokùnrin yi
this boy
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Hello !
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How are you doing ?
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Everything okay ?
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Step 6 : Yoruba 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 iwe, ijoko and ilekun (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 Yoruba demonstrative pronouns including useful examples. After you've learned to use the Yoruba demonstrative pronouns with the nouns iwe, ijoko and ilekun and the plural nouns àwon iwe náà, àwon ijoko and àwon ilekun you can move on to Step 7 (Yoruba adjectives).

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