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Unit 1: At a friend’s house 5
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Negative sentence marker kò (CD 1; 6)
The word kò is used in most cases to change affirmative sentences to
negative sentences. For example:
Túnjí wà n;’lé.
Tunji is/was home.
Túnjí kò sí n;’lé.
Tunji is/was not home.
Kúnlé máa padà wá. Kunle will come back.
Kúnlé kò ní í padà wá. Kunle will not come back.
If subject pronouns are used with the negative marker kò, the
pronoun for “she/he/it” is usually deleted before kò. Similarly, the
pronoun mo “I,” changes to N before kò. For example:
Mo lo≥soœ$jà. I went to the market.
N kò lo≥soœ$jà. I did not go to the market.
O lo≥soœ$jà. You went to the market.
O kò lo≥soœ$jà. You did not go to the market.
Ó lo≥soœ$jà. He/she/it went to the market.
– kò lo≥soœ$jà. He/she/it did not go to the market.
A lo≥soœ$jà. We went to the market.
A kò lo≥soœ$jà. We did not go to the market.
Õ lo≥soœ$jà. You went to the market.
Õ kò lo≥soœ$jà. You did not go to the market.
Woœ$n lo≥soœ$jà. They went to the market.
Wo≥n kò lo≥soœ$jà. They did not go to the market.
Other examples are:
Ó burú. It is/was bad.
– Kò burú. It is/was not bad
Commands
To command someone (a younger person or a colleague) to do
something in Yoruba, simply drop the pronoun O before the verb.
For example:
Simple statement
Command
O jókòó You sat down Jókòó! Sit down!
O dìde You stood up Dìde! Stand up!