Tag: linguistics

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…

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…

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…