Tag: afaanoromoo
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Marqaa by Addunyaa Barkeessaa
This is part of Mega Publishing and Spotlight Publishing’s graded readers for school children. I have many of these and similar books but it is difficult to find a complete set. This is one of the easier books from the series that I have so I decided to start with this one. Each page is…
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Going to try two (or more) books
This week, I would like to try something that I hope will become more normal. I am going to try to read and post about at least two books. One will be a more grammar heavy reference book and the other(s) will be easy children’s books. The grammar book is A Grammatical Sketch of Written…
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Case System
As I mentioned before, afaan Oromoo has a case system. This might be something that is less known for those who have not learned another language in the past. In essence, this means that the form of the noun changes depending on the information that the word is portraying. In English, these meanings are often…
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Marked Nominative
Afaan Oromoo is what is a called a marked nominative language. Marked nominative is when a word is the “doer” of the sentence’s verb that word is marked compared to its normal form. What this means is that if you ask someone what the word for coffee is, they will say buna but if you…
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-uu and -chuu Verbs
In afaan Oromoo, the infinitive form of the verb usually ends in -uu. This would be the word you look up in a dictionary when looking for a meaning for the verb. For example, If I said: I go to work.- Ani hojiin deema. I would look up the word deemuu in a dictionary to…
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Afan Oromo: A Guide to Speaking the Language of Ethiopia’s Oromo People
This book is written by Abebe Bulto and edited by Temesgen H. Beriso and Andrew Tadross. This is the 2021 edition of the book. I had the previous edition of this but left it in Ethiopia when I moved away, but they seem similar from what I remember. This is probably the most readily accessible…