ga1gai1to go, to move (for a special purpose that is often mentioned; sometimes interchangeable with cheng v.)Maa ga yaba ain n da yiisa.I go to the market to buy salt. (Maa ga yaba alone would be an incomplete sentence.)Akayam ga yaali daata.Akayam went to fetch firewood.(Prov.) Ni-kota kan gai noai ya.Empty hands do not go to the mouth.2in order to (transl. of Buli verb)Te ti cheng viuku ga nyu daam.Let us go (cheng) to the (market-) stall to drink pito.3till, until, to (local and temporal)Vaari dan vienti weni a gaa sing dii ate kpaaroa a tom la ale la.From daybreak until sunset this is what a farmer does.A nyin Navarong a ga Tamale ku yalima ya?Is it far from Navrongo to Tamale?ngman ga(lit. again go), to inheritJadoka ale ngman gai ka boan?Who will inherit the jadok-shrine? (Lit.: To whom will the jadok go again?)cheng v.
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