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# ghanaian

«ghanaian» in Mova's school dictionary: **From or to do with Ghana, a country in West Africa** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (Ghanaian); noun (a Ghanaian, Ghanaians)

### meaning for a pupil

1) From or to do with Ghana, a country in West Africa. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/ghanaian/#m1)

2) (noun) A person from Ghana. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/ghanaian/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In geography and culture lessons Ghanaian topics include its capital Accra, cocoa farming, kente cloth, jollof rice, highlife music, and independence in 1957 (the first in sub-Saharan Africa to break free from colonial rule). Many Ghanaian families live in the UK, the USA and Canada. Phrases: Ghanaian food, Ghanaian culture, a Ghanaian-British family.

### examples

- My friend Kwame's family is Ghanaian. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/ghanaian/#x1)
- Ghanaian kente cloth has bright woven patterns. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/ghanaian/#x2)
- We tasted Ghanaian jollof rice at the culture fair. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/ghanaian/#x3)
- Many Ghanaians speak English as well as Twi or Ewe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/ghanaian/#x4)
- Ghanaian farmers grow lots of the world's cocoa. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/ghanaian/#x5)
- A Ghanaian storyteller told us about Anansi the spider. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/ghanaian/#x6)

### note

Always with a capital G: Ghanaian. Spelling: Ghana + ian (Ghanaian, not «Ghanian»). Pronounced gah-NAY-un. Ghana's official language is English.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «ghanaian» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/ghanaian/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.