Example sentences for: mina

How can you use “mina” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In Mina, a language spoken in Togo and parts of Benin and Ghana, the verb to eat is used in many phrases that have nothing to do with food.

  • If a speaker of Mina is suffering he will say that he is eating the wind, if he is comfortable he will say that he is eating life, if someone lends him money he will say he has eaten their credit.

  • My admiration for the French has, however, paled into insignificance since I started learning to count money in Mina, a language spoken in Togo and parts of Benin and Ghana.

  • In fact, children who grow up speaking a language such as French or Mina, which obliges them to make connections between numbers and introduces them to multiples at a very early age, probably take to arithmetic faster than those who plod along adding one to the previous number ad infinitum .

  • 44), the well-known example ene tene mone mei (Germany 1847), eena meena mina mona (England 1895), ina mina maina mau (Norway 1959).


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