Planning a Trip
Transportation
At the end of this module, you will be able to talk and write in Yorùbá about how you get around.
Vocabulary
Learn these words:
Now listen to this phone conversation https://mediaspace.wisc.edu/media/Phone+conversation–trip/1_2wwege07
Listening Test: Transportation
Verb Spotlight
Each of the words you have learned goes with a specific verb. We will pay attention to three verbs here: wà, wọ̀, gùn
wà – to drive
wọ̀ – to ride in (a car, a bus, and pretty much any means of transportation that is enclose)
gùn – to ride on (a bike/motorbike)
wà ọkọ̀/wọ̀ ọkọ̀
wà bọ́ọ̀sì/wọ̀ bọ́ọ̀sì
wà dáńfó/wọ̀ dáńfó
wà ọ̀kadà/gùn ọ̀kadà
Let us test your knowledge of the verbs:
Now, let us combine what you have learned so far.
How about some speaking?