This lesson teaches how to construct Yoruba sentences by combining individual vocabulary words in a specific order: subject (noun) + possessive pronoun (mi = my) + verb (ni = is) + location word (wani = in/inside). The instructor demonstrates this method using examples like 'ile idana mi ni yi' (This is my kitchen), 'ikoko mi wani ile idana' (The pot is in the kitchen), and 'yara ibosu mi wa ni iwalegbe yara ijoko' (My bedroom is beside the living room), showing students how to translate English sentences by breaking them into component words and arranging them according to Yoruba grammar rules.
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Added:kitchen.
Ilayi dano means kitchen.
So, if the place where we cook.
As Ilayi dano.
>> Okay.
>> Mhm.
All right.
>> Okay.
>> So, you give me different sentences. You can give me like Can we try two?
>> Okay.
>> All right.
>> Um Um Um let's see.
What do we combine?
>> This is my kitchen.
>> It's >> How is it?
This is my kitchen.
I think we have done something like that. This is my >> This uh okay.
Um Um kitchen another >> Are you still thinking or you want me to tell you?
>> Um Yeah.
I know that ye comes at the end.
>> Yes.
>> of the words this is my >> Mhm.
>> Um >> It will be kitchen.
>> Okay.
>> my Mhm.
my >> me >> Mhm. This is That's what you're going to say.
Correct. So, how you join it together?
>> Ilayi is a noun.
me ye >> Mhm. me ye >> me me ye me yi >> Yes. So, let's join this together again.
>> me me yi, okay >> So, it starts from ile.
>> ile idana mi ni yi >> Correct.
Good.
ile idana mi ni yi, correct >> ile idana, okay >> Mhm.
>> So, uh kitchen is the >> Yes.
>> Okay, this is the kitchen, then it's mine, and then it's the this, okay.
>> Do you have any question?
>> No.
>> Okay.
So, give me another another sentence.
>> Another sentence with >> ile idana That's kitchen.
>> Yes.
>> Okay.
Uh >> Mhm.
This is my kitchen. How do you say this is my mom's kitchen?
>> Okay, um ile >> Mhm.
>> idana >> Mhm.
>> mama mi >> Correct.
>> mi yi >> Good. Perfect. ile idana mama mi ni yi, correct Any question? Do you have Do you understand that?
>> I understand. I understand.
>> Perfect. Good.
So, that's how you form your sentences.
So, now that know each word, right? When I asked you at first, you were like, "Oh, you know, you don't know." But, when you now, you know, you have to pick each one after the other. Those words that you know, just join them together.
And that is it.
Do you understand?
>> Yes.
>> So, pot is ikoko.
>> Ikoko.
>> Yeah.
Ikoko. Give me two sentences for pot.
Ikoko.
>> Um >> Mhm.
>> Um um um >> Say you haven't said the sentence in English first, then you now translate.
Do you understand?
>> Okay. I want to say that uh the pot is in the kitchen.
>> Correct. The pot is in the kitchen.
Okay, you now translate it.
How will you do the translation?
>> Um is in in in in in >> In is what?
>> Could I use >> Okay.
>> I have to use Yeah.
In or inside? Or inside or just in the something or can be used in this sentence?
>> You can use in the, you can use inside.
So, which one do you want to use?
>> Yeah.
I I I cannot find how is only in.
>> In.
>> Yeah. How is said in?
>> Wani.
Wani.
>> Wani.
>> Wa.
>> Wani.
>> Yeah.
>> Wani. Mhm.
Ikoko mi wani uh >> Kitchen.
>> I lay eedana.
>> Good.
That's how you do the translation.
>> Okay.
>> Do you understand now?
>> Yes.
>> I want you to be, you know, getting how to form the sentences.
So, it's going to be very simple. You just say it in English in your head. So, you just say it in English and you translate it. Good.
>> Okay.
>> Mhm.
So, how will you say this is my pot?
>> This is my pot or ikoko mini.
>> Ikoko mini. And sometimes, your Yoruba will just say potu instead of ikoko. So, most times, you know, in Nigeria, we just say potu.
Potu mini. So, you can use potu. You You You say it in Yoruba way.
Like p o t u. Potu. That's all. P o t u.
Potu. Potu mini. You can say ikoko mini.
Because there are some people you say ikoko, they might not even understand.
And you know, it's deep Yoruba.
A lot of people will not even say ikoko right now. They will say potu potu potu.
>> Potu.
>> Mhm. But, I'm telling you so that when you hear that, you will understand. And when you say it, you know, white woman saying ikoko, they'll be surprised like, >> [laughter] >> It sounds ancient.
>> Yeah, you understand.
So, that's why if I want to teach you Yoruba, I will teach you the deep Yoruba and also the one, you know, we we also say right now.
Do you understand?
>> Okay.
>> Yes.
So, let's use obe.
>> Obe.
>> Mhm.
>> Uh okay.
>> Obe. Obe is knife, right?
>> Yes. Obe wani poto.
>> [laughter] >> So, wani poto. You have to say inside this time around.
>> Okay.
Obe waninu or waninu poto.
>> So, which which knife? Is it your knife?
>> Okay, I can say obemi.
>> Mhm.
>> waninu poto.
>> Correct. I'm proud of you. Beautiful.
>> [laughter] >> Yeah, this is how we do it.
>> [laughter] >> Good. Beautiful.
I love that. Give me another one.
>> Okay.
Um obemi wa ni tawili.
>> Mhm. So, on. Have we done on? When something is on something. Mhm.
>> Um on on on on Yeah, I have it somewhere.
>> Niori.
Niori. Yeah.
>> Uh okay.
>> Mhm.
>> Obemi ni ori tawili.
>> Wani ori tawili.
>> Wani ori tawili.
>> So, combine it together again.
>> Okay.
Uh obemi >> Mhm.
>> wani ori tawili.
>> Perfect. Good. I think we are making progress. This is beautiful.
>> [laughter] [snorts] >> I love that. This is perfect. Perfecto.
>> Mhm.
>> Mhm. How do you say perfect in your language?
>> Perfect.
>> Mhm.
>> [laughter] >> Yeah, we do use perfect, but we uh less Yeah, we use many English words as ours.
But >> creation word is savršen.
>> Savršen.
>> [laughter] >> Oh, there's an R there.
Savršen.
>> Savršen.
>> Wow, beautiful. I think I'll learn from you.
>> [laughter] >> Oh, beautiful. Okay.
So, do you understand everything now? Do you have any question?
Any question?
>> Okay, I understand.
>> Okay, good. So, let's go to spoon. Spoon is šibi.
>> Šibi.
>> Yeah. Šibi.
Šibi.
>> Šibi. Okay.
>> Šibi, that's spoon. Šibi.
Good.
So, give me another sentence from that.
Šibi.
>> Okay.
>> Mhm.
>> Šibi mi up ti ob mi.
Ni ari tabli.
>> It's Okay, it's good. It's good. You're making progress. You're making progress.
>> I don't have what.
>> [laughter] >> So, let's try it one more time. That's good, but there's something in between that you didn't put there. Okay.
>> Šibi mi up ti >> Mhm.
>> ob mi >> Mhm.
>> wani ari tabli.
>> Wani, say it again. Wani what?
>> wani ari tabli.
>> Ari means middle. Is it at the middle or on? Or we >> ari tabli.
>> Say it again. Let's combine it together again.
>> Šibi mi ob mi wani ari tabli.
>> Go back again. You said she be me at Is that what you wanted to say?
>> She be me >> Mhm.
>> at or be me >> Mhm.
>> or be or be me >> Good.
I'm proud. I'm proud.
You have to write it.
>> Forget any other words.
>> Yeah.
That is it now. That's That makes sense.
>> or be or be me >> Correct. She be me at or be me or be me or be me or be me perfect.
Do you understand that now?
>> Yes.
>> I love that.
She be me at or be me or be me or be So, how did you How did you get that? How did you bring it out from you? You She be me at or be me or be me or be me or be me You translated it in your head or how did you make that sentence?
>> by word.
>> Good. Perfect. And that's how you do it.
That's how you do it. Perfect. I love that.
So, like give me another one for she be.
>> [laughter] [snorts] >> Okay.
>> Okay.
>> Mhm.
>> My mom's phone is in the pool.
>> Okay.
>> She be my She be my mommy.
>> Mhm.
>> Um or be me >> Mhm.
>> for two >> Right now it's inside, so you cannot just say or be me.
>> Okay. Or be me no.
Okay.
>> Or be me no correct.
>> Or be me no for two.
>> Correct. Good. That's how you do it.
This is how we do it.
Correct.
My mom's spoon is inside the pot.
Or you can say she be >> She be ma ma mi o.
>> One mi o.
E kokuko.
>> Good.
I think we are making progress, right?
>> Yes.
>> And I know you're happy with yourself the way you are smiling.
I love that. [laughter] That's it. That's how we do it.
Beautiful.
And I'm proud of you.
Mhm.
>> Thank you.
>> You're welcome. [laughter] >> I know I can do better, but yeah.
>> Yeah, but this one you are doing is too good.
>> Okay, then.
>> Yeah, we are getting there. This is you have This is progress, too. You know?
It's you are making progress and we are getting there, so don't worry, you know?
So let's use This one is fork. We say foki.
>> Foki.
>> So we just we bring it into our, you know, our Yoruba. We say it in the Yoruba way.
>> Mhm.
>> So spoon she be then foki.
>> Foki.
>> Mhm.
Okay? So we can just use that one with she be I think they are like siblings, right?
So let's come to plates. Plates is what?
correct.
So give me Give me abos. Give me different sentences for >> Okay.
>> Okay?
>> Okay.
>> If for example, let's start with this one. This is my >> Mhm.
>> plate.
>> This is my plate. Okay.
>> would be a bowl meaning a bowl meaning >> Correct. a bowl meaning That's it.
Perfect. This is my plate. A bowl meaning plate.
Give me another sentence. That's good.
That's a good one.
>> My spoon is on my plate.
>> Okay, good.
My spoon is on my plate.
So, how do you say it?
>> or she be me >> Mhm.
>> wa ni o ru a bowl >> You said o ru. Is it o ru or o ri?
>> o ri >> o ri Yeah.
>> [laughter] >> Okay.
>> Okay. So, let's say it again.
>> Okay.
she be me >> Mhm.
>> ni o ri a bowl me >> Okay. You said she be me ni o ri a bowl me.
>> I always forget that wa.
>> wa ni Yeah. Let's go.
>> she be me wa ni o ri a bowl me >> Correct. That's how you do it.
That's it. Perfect. High five. High five.
>> [laughter] >> That's good. We are making progress. I love that.
Okay. So, let's move to the next one.
This one is a woo. You know, it's still like it's still play siblings. Yeah.
This one is a woo.
We have ketchup. We call it ketchup.
That's what we call it.
ketchup >> ketchup Katsu, you we just bring it, you know, in inside our room. You know, about what I would just say katsu.
Katsu.
So, give me your own sentence for katsu.
>> [laughter] >> This is my katsu.
>> [laughter] >> Katsu means >> Katsu means We have stove. Do you guys still use stove over there?
>> Stove?
>> Mhm.
>> Uh yes.
Yes, I think they use them here, but I know they use them in Croatia.
>> Oh.
Because right now a lot of people use gas, gas oven.
>> Yeah, yeah.
The gas is not so common in Ireland.
>> Mhm.
>> So, electricity Yeah.
Most of the cookers are electrical.
>> Yeah, good. I think I like that.
Because there is electricity over here.
It is well with us.
>> [laughter] [snorts] >> Oh, okay. So, let's go to omi. Omi is water.
>> Omi.
>> Mhm.
>> Okay.
>> Omi. So, give me your sentence for omi.
>> Omi. Okay.
>> How will you say I want to drink water?
>> Uh drink drink drink drink drink mu.
>> Mu is Mu is drink. Yes.
>> Mu.
I want to drink water.
>> Yeah.
>> Mo fe mu omi.
>> Correct. High five. That's good. High five. High five. High five. [laughter] Beautiful.
I love that. That's how we do it. Yeah.
Mufem mumi. Okay, give me another one.
>> Um water is in the kettle.
>> Mhm.
So, it will be It will be like water is inside the kettle, right?
>> Mhm.
>> Mhm.
>> Okay, so oh omi wa >> Mhm.
>> inu >> Mhm.
>> kettle >> kettle >> Correct.
>> kettle >> Beautiful.
I love that.
Okay.
So, bedroom, we can say we can say yara isu.
Where is the the room where we sleep.
That's bedroom. Yara isu.
We can also say yara ibuso.
>> Yeah, I have yara ibuso in the book.
>> Yeah, it's like where bed where we have our bed. Bedroom. Yara ibuso.
>> Yara ibuso. Okay.
>> Yara isu. Where we sleep, you know. It's still the same thing. And sometimes we just say yara.
>> Okay. For for the bedroom.
>> Yes, we just say yara sometimes, you know.
Yara.
It's still like room. Room is yara. So >> Aha. You're okay. For the room. Okay.
>> Yeah.
>> Yara is room and it uh yara ibuso is the room where where we sleep.
>> Yeah. Yeah.
Understand. You understand it now.
So, let's use bedroom >> Okay.
>> in a sentence. Bedroom.
Mhm.
>> Okay.
Let me see.
>> So, how will you say I will sleep in my bedroom this night?
Mhm.
>> Okay.
I will >> Mhm.
>> sleep in my bedroom tonight.
>> Yes. So, how will you say?
>> Okay.
>> I will sleep in my bedroom tonight.
I will sleep in my bedroom tonight.
Mhm.
Okay, you're writing it down.
>> Yes.
>> Mhm.
I left night.
>> I left. Yeah.
Okay. Let's try.
>> Okay.
Mhm.
Okay. Wani will not be there.
>> Okay.
>> Mhm.
So, is she that we use instead of Wani?
>> She.
>> Mhm.
>> Okay.
>> Mhm.
Why you didn't put me there?
my bedroom.
>> Uh Aha. Yara ibosu mi mi ore.
>> So, now combine everything together, now.
>> Mo ma sun si Yara ibosu mi mi ore.
>> Perfect.
High five. High five. High five.
Good. That's it.
How did you now combine the words together?
>> [laughter] >> Yeah.
>> I want to know how you did Yes, now. How did you do it?
Were you translating it each like word by word?
>> Word by word by word and then by the positions I know where what goes at the beginning of the sentence, what needs to be at the end.
>> Mhm.
>> Yeah.
>> Perfect. I know you're proud of yourself with what you did.
>> [laughter] >> Beautiful. That's how That's how we do it, you know. I love it the way you're just saying it. Uh because at first I was like, "This is sentence is long."
But I was like, "Let me just give it to you. Just do it."
>> Yeah.
>> That's beautiful. Okay, give me one more.
Mhm.
>> Yeah.
>> Just say something in English then you translate it.
>> Okay. Uh Okay.
Uh My bed is in my bedroom.
>> Okay. How will you say it?
My bed is in my bedroom. Okay.
Okay, you're writing it. So, how will you translate it?
>> Ibosu mi >> Mhm.
>> Uh wa mi Yara ibosu.
Mi >> [laughter] [laughter] >> My mom is in the living room.
>> Okay, my mom is in the living room.
Okay. Let's do the translation.
>> Okay.
>> Mhm.
>> My mommy wa nino yara uh in joko.
>> This is how we do it.
>> [laughter and crying] >> Beautiful.
Beautiful. High five. High five.
>> Hello.
>> Beautiful.
I love it. Like, this is beautiful. This is beautiful.
I love you. Thank you very much. You are making progress, you know. I'm proud of you. I'm really, really proud of you.
And I see that you are smiling. You too, you're proud of yourself right now. You >> Thank you.
>> Okay, so let's do one more for yara ijoko.
>> Yara ijoko >> Mhm.
Yara ijoko >> Try ijoko. You know, I just Give me a second there. Uh-huh.
Okay.
>> Mhm.
>> Okay.
Um My >> Mhm.
>> bedroom is beside the living room.
>> My bedroom is beside the living room. Okay.
>> Yes.
>> So, how do we say it in Yoruba?
>> So, yara ebi sun ibo sun >> Mhm.
>> mi >> Mhm.
>> wa >> Mhm.
>> le gbe >> Good.
>> ya ra ijo ku >> Beautiful. That's it.
Yara igbosu iwalegbe yara ijoku.
That's how you see That's how you do it.
And I saw that you saw you saw the iwalegbe and you know that okay, this is what you're supposed to see. I love it that you are knowing what you're supposed to see. It's not like you're saying how do how do how do I arrange it? You know how to arrange it already.
When you say it, you're translating it to yourself and that is beautiful.
That's a plus for me. That's a plus.
You know? Because you know I've taught you this, you know, each words and, you know, you are you you are getting how to combine it, which is beautiful, you know, how to, you know, you know that yara ijoku iwalegbe, you know that iwalegbe, even if you don't know iwalegbe before, when you saw the iwalegbe, you know that iwalegbe will be at the middle.
>> Yeah.
>> And I like it. I love it. Thank you very much. I'm proud of you. It's beautiful.
>> [laughter] >> You said that so many times, so I'll be like this.
>> [laughter] >> You are like this.
And that is what I want you to be. I want you to be like this. You know? So, what is like this that you did? I'm like this. What do I mean?
>> Just like uh >> [laughter] >> Just happy and energetic.
>> Yes. That is what I want. That happy and energy, energy, energy, energy. I love it. That energy, that's what I want.
That happy and energy. So, when you are happy, you will know what you are, you know, you will want you will understand it more.
And I know you you are getting it. The way you are even happy with yourself is I love it.
High five.
>> [laughter] >> Beautiful. Okay.
So, we have done the later now.
All right.
Later now is kitchen, right?
So, we have guest room. Guest room is Yala alejo.
>> Yala alejo.
>> Yeah.
Alejo is is a guest in my house, you know.
So, Yala the room of the guest.
The guest. Yala alejo. Mhm.
Yala alejo.
Okay, so let's Give me a different sentences for Yala alejo.
>> Okay.
>> [snorts] [snorts] >> Yala alejo.
You're still thinking?
>> I think.
>> Okay, Yala I think.
>> In English it's my mom and my dad are in the guest room.
>> Okay. My mom and my dad are in the guest room. Okay, so how do you say it?
>> Ma mommy >> Mhm.
Mhm.
Say it again.
High five. High five. High five.
>> [laughter] >> Beautiful. Beautiful. I love it.
You are doing really well.
You are doing really well. Like I love it. That's it. That you're making progress. It's beautiful. Mhm.
It's beautiful. Give me a high five, baby. High five, baby.
>> [laughter] >> So, let's do one more.
>> Let you wet. Okay.
>> So, let's do one more for Yarah.
>> I'm already reading the next one.
>> [laughter] >> Yarah is rushing to the next one. Calm down.
>> [laughter] >> So, give me one more sentence for Yarah Aliyu.
Yarah Aliyu, one more sentence.
We have done different things. So, table, chairs, spoon, plate. You can use a lot of things, you know, different different things.
>> Yeah, I have some other sentences in my head.
>> Okay. Okay.
>> I like sleeping in the guest room.
>> Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
>> Something big like that.
>> Okay. Okay. Let's try it. Let's try it.
Mhm.
>> Mofe sun wanni nu Yarah Aliyu.
>> Okay. You said I like, right?
>> Yes.
>> So, I like in Yoruba is what?
>> Mofe is I want.
>> Mofe is I want. Thank God you know.
Good. So, mofe is I want.
So, I like is what?
Mofe run.
So, what you would do what you now use there is lati.
>> Lati.
Okay.
>> So, it should be lati sun sino. Mofe run lati sun sino.
>> Mofe run lati sun sino.
Se.
Okay.
>> Mofe run lati sun sino Yarah >> Do you get it now?
>> Yes.
>> Good.
Good.
>> Okay.
Okay.
>> Do you understand it now?
>> Yes. Yes.
>> If you If you want to say I like to sit in the um sitting room If you'd like to do something inside a place, that's how you do it.
>> Yeah. Okay.
>> I like to sit in the sitting room.
>> Okay.
>> Do you understand?
>> Yes.
>> Good. All right.
Thank you for coming to class today. I love you. Mwah.
>> [laughter] >> So, you your assignment is to, you know, do the ones we have done today. Give me one one sentences for like one sentence for them each for each of them. Uh for >> Okay.
>> for ile No, we are not done ile with.
For ile ijana, give me a sentence. For for aboki, give me a sentence. Just give me one one like each.
One sentence each.
>> Okay.
>> Okay.
>> Okay.
>> Good.
Thank you very much for coming today. I love you. Take care. How do you say goodbye?
O daboo.
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