Example sentences for: mina

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

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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 .

  • Counting money in Mina involves using multiples of five as far as twenty-five and then using a combination of multiples of twenty-five and five as far as one hundred.


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