Words starting with F

fɛɛ

Reviewed by a Ga speaker

all; every; everything

the same as fiā and piā; placed between a repeated singular noun it means every: mofẽmo, everybody; nõfẽnõ, everything; tšo fẽ tšo, every tree (Gram. §22); fẽ tfem, fẽ kwa, altogether; it sometimes behaves like a noun (Zimmermann compares Hebrew): with a plural possessive the augment a is usually left out, as in Gbomẹi fẽ niitšumọi instead of gbomẹi fẽ aniitšumọi, the works of all people; used to sum up a series of statements: mikpalẹ fai, miwie âhũ, mifã eyi sẹ: fẽ tfem ekplee, I begged him/her, I spoke long to him/her, I pressed him/her, all together (in vain) he/she did not agree; Adangme: tfa, tšoa, tšo; Otyi: ṅnyina