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Sunday, February 14, 2010

Lesson 12 - Review lessons 7 to 11

Please translate the following sentences.

1. Nènè is thirty years old.

2. The cars are red.

3. The shirts are ready.

4. I hear a bird.

5. You see a little boy.

6. The books have three pages.

7. The theater has no chairs.

8. The beds are huge.

9. The houses are small.

10. Resilia has red hair.

11. The lessons are easy.

12. It is a bird.

13. You are a baby.

14. She has a baby.

15. Ti Roro gives me a house.

16. The nurses are Americans.

17. The teachers have three books.

18. The girls have two luggage.

19. The cans are small.

20. The houses fall.

Find answer key at the bottom of this page



1.Nènè gen tran tan    2.Machin yo wouj    3. Mayo yo prè    4.M tande yon zwazo    5. Ou wè yon ti gason    6. Liv yo gen twa paj    7. Teyat la pa gen chèz    8. Kabann yo laj    9. Kay yo piti    10. Resilia gen cheve wouj    11. Leson yo fasil    12.Se yon zwazo    13.Ou se yon bebe    14.Li gen yon bebe    15.Ti Roro ban mwen yon kay    16.Enfimyè yo se Ameriken    17.Pwofesè yo gen twa liv   18.Ti fi yo gen de malèt    19.Mamit yo piti    20.kay yo tonbe.




4 comments:

  1. These lessons are great! Thank you for these i'm learning quite alot, and i can't wait to catch up to your current posts. Pretty much my whole family is Haitian and i'm frustrated that I never bothered to learn the language even if i were living in an english speaking country (U.S by the way) I only knew a couple phrases that got me by but you dramatically improved my understanding! Thanks once again and keep up the good work and i hope you get this.

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  2. Thanks Marcus.
    Keep up the good work, zanmi :)

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  3. Hi Mandaly,

    A few questions if I may...

    For #7, should it include "yo", becoming "Teyat la pa gen chèz yo", since chairs is plural?
    For #12, does "se" mean "(it) is"? Is the sentence "li yon zwazo" completely incorrect, or does it convey the same meaning? I'm trying to get better at dropping the 'se', but maybe cannot do so here.

    Thanks for all your help!

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    1. Hi :)

      In #7, we can omit "yo" because the article that modifies "chèz" is the INDEFINITE article,
      Which means that we are not talking about specific chairs.


      For #12,
      "Se", in Haitian Creole, can mean "it is" or "that is".
      some examples:

      Se mwen menm.
      It's me.

      Se pa li.
      That's not it.

      Se yon lajwa pou mwen.
      It a joy for me.

      Thanks :)
      Keep it up.

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