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tafole table (pl. ditafole) setilo a chair (pl. ditilo) madi money
tiro work (pl. ditiro) thuto education or a lesson nama meat
tee tea
metse water
sukiri- sugar
sejo food
borotho bread
koloi an automobile (pl. dikoloi) koko chicken or fowl (pl. dikoko) ntlo house (pl. matlo) bothata problem or difficulty lorato love
masi milk
nako time (pl. dinako) watshe a watch (pl. diwatshe)
Practice
After practicing pronunciation of the nouns, the teacher should, by pointing, lifting an object, showing pictures or dramatically acting out a situation, indicate one of
the comon nouns and illicit the correct Setswana word
from the student.
A Useful Prepositional Form
We can add '-ng' to many nouns and designate place.
examples: (1) sekole (school)+ ng = sekoleng (to/from school)
tafole (table) + ng = tafoleng (to/from the table) sentilo (chair) + ng = setilong (to/from the chair) moruti (teacher)+ ng = moruting (to/from the teacher)
(2) 0 ya kae? (Where are you going?)
Kea sekoleng. (I am going to school.) 0 tswa kae? (Where do you come from?) Ke tswa moruting. (I come from the teacher.)
FORMING SIMPLE SENTENCES
In English, simple action sentences may answer three questions:
who? (the subject) usually a noun or pronoun what? (what the subject is doing)- a verb form
when? (when the subject is doing the action)- the verb tense