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Kinyarwanda is the language of Rwanda (cf). Here we have transcribed into HTML the book Kinyarwanda Lessons, written by Betty Ellen Cox and Gakuba Faustin.

• Introduction
• Useful Expressions
• Lesson 1: Class 1 -umu -aba
• Lesson 2: Ni and Si
• Lesson 3: Possessive Adjective
• Lesson 4: Class 2 umu- imi-
• Lesson 5: Mu and Ku
• Lesson 6: Possessive Particle
• Lesson 7: Class 3 in- in-
• Lesson 8: Adjectives
• Lesson 9: Adjectives (cont.)
• Lesson 10: Review
• Lesson 11: Class 3 (cont.)
• Lesson 12: Verb -ri
• Lesson 13: Class 4 iki- ibi-
• Lesson 14: Class 4 (continued)
• Lesson 15: Special Uses of Class 4
• Lesson 16: -ra Present Tense of a Verb
• Lesson 17: Negative of the -ra Present
• Lesson 18: Class 5 i- ama-
• Lesson 19: Class 5 (cont.)
• Lesson 20: Review
• Lesson 21: Verb -fite
• Lesson 22: Infinitive and Imperative
• Lesson 23: Class 6 uru- in-
• Lesson 24: Class 6 (cont.)
• Lesson 25: Prefixless Present Tense
• Lesson 26: Class 7 aka- utu-
• Lesson 27: Class 8 ubu- ama-
• Lesson 28: Class 8 (cont.)
• Lesson 29: Future Tense
• Lesson 30: Review
• Lesson 31: Negative of Future Tense
• Lesson 32: Class 9 uku- ama-
• Lesson 33: Class 10 aha-
• Lesson 34: Chart of the Classes
• Lesson 35: Vowel-stem Verbs
• Lesson 36: Far Future and Present Negative of Vowel-stem Verbs
• Lesson 37: Cardinal Numbers 1-10
• Lesson 38: Higher Numbers
• Lesson 39: -ngahe? How many?
• Lesson 40: Review
• Lesson 41: -ose - all, every
• Lesson 42: "To wash"
• Lesson 43: -ndi - other
• Lesson 44: Some Verbs
• Lesson 45: Verb -zi - to know
• Lesson 46: Adjective Chart
• Lesson 47: Word Order
• Lesson 48: Personal Pronouns
• Lesson 49: Review
• Lesson 50: Reading Lesson
• Lesson 51: Ordinary Past Tense
• Lesson 52: Rules for Past Endings
• Lesson 53: Past Verb Endings
• Lesson 54: Ordinary Past (continued)
• Lesson 55: Negative of Ordinary Past
• Lesson 56: Past of -ri; -ga tense
• Lesson 57: Object Pronouns
• Lesson 58: Object Pronouns (continued)
• Lesson 59: Object Pronouns with Vowel-stem Verbs
• Lesson 60: Review
• Lesson 61: Ordinal Numerals, -ombi
• Lesson 62: Months, Days of Week, Telling Time
• Lesson 63: Some Household Items
• Lesson 64: Stative Voice
• Lesson 65: -o with the Infinitive
• Lesson 66: Imperative with the Subjunctive
• Lesson 67: Subjunctive
• Lesson 68: How to Say "Stop" and "Wait"
• Lesson 69: Possessive Particle with a changed to o
• Lesson 70: Review
• Lesson 71: Far Past Tense
• Lesson 72: Negative of Far Past
• Lesson 73: Father and Mother
• Lesson 74: Brother and Sister
• Lesson 75: Immediate Past
• Lesson 76: Possessive Adjectives
• Lesson 77: Possessive Adjectives (continued)
• Lesson 78: Causative Verbs
• Lesson 79: Causatives (continued)
• Lesson 80: Objects with Causatives
• Lesson 81: Review
• Lesson 82: Gutya, Gutyo
• Lesson 83: Passive Verbs
• Lesson 84: Past of Passives
• Lesson 85: Passives of Monosyllabic Verbs
• Lesson 86: Demonstrative Adjectives
• Lesson 87: Demonstratives (continued)
• Lesson 88: Demonstratives (continued)
• Lesson 89: Not Yet Tense
• Lesson 90: Review
• Lesson 91: Dependent Clauses
• Lesson 92: Dependent Not-Yet Tense
• Lesson 93: Demonstrative Pronouns -kwiriye, -rinda, -gomba
• Lesson 94: Relative Clauses
• Lesson 95: Relative Clauses With no Noun Antecedent
• Lesson 96: Pronoun Nde?
• Lesson 97: Adjective -he?
• Lesson 98: Prepositional Form of Verb
• Lesson 99: Uses of Prepositional Form
• Lesson 100: Review
• Lesson 101: Reading Lesson
• Lesson 102: Miscellaneous Words
• Lesson 103: Reflexive Verbs
• Lesson 104: Uses of Nta
• Lesson 105: Further Notes on Nta
• Lesson 106: Reciprocal Form of Verb
• Lesson 107: Associative Verbs
• Lesson 108: Adverb -te?, Comparisons
• Lesson 109: How to Say "Why?"
• Lesson 100: Review
• Lesson 111: How to Say "Some", The Conditional
• Lesson 112: Adjectives Expressed By Verbs
• Lesson 113: Reduplicated Verbs
• Lesson 114: Quotations, Direct and Indirect
• Lesson 115: Prepositional Suffixes
• Lesson 116: Ki and Umuki
• Lesson 117: Ka Tense
• Lesson 118: Some Adverbs; The -racya- Tense
• Lesson 119: More Adverbs
• Lesson 120: Miscellaneous Expressions
• Lesson 121: More Miscellaneous Expressions
• Lesson 122: Summary of Tenses
• Lesson 123: The Narrative Tenses
• Lesson 124: Narrative Continued
• Lesson 125: Review