gbogbo

Gbogbo expresses total coverage. In the illustrated frame it precedes a noun phrase, and English may render it as “all” or “every”. Conversation supplies the domain: all the children means the relevant children, rather than every child everywhere.

Gbogbo yín and gbogbo wọn mean “all of you” and “all of them”. A bare noun can have plural reference, so gbogbo ọmọ náà can identify an entire known group without an additional pluralizer. The quantifier keeps its form. Many participants need not include every participant; gbogbo asserts total coverage. A relative description can restrict the domain to everything someone bought. Other constructions can place gbogbo after a nominal expression; these examples teach the established preceding position and do not supply a general rule for those other frames. Denying total participation must be distinguished from asserting that nobody participated.