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with a vowel Derived verbs constructed from other verbs, noun roots, adjectival roots, and ideophones by suffixes. Regular verbs are those beginning with
Sotho_verbs
Southern Bantu language of Lesotho and neighbouring countries
Sotho (/ˈsuːtuː/), also known as Sesotho (/sɪˈsuːtuː, sə-/), Southern Sotho, or Sesotho sa Borwa, is a Southern Bantu language spoken in Lesotho, as its
Sotho_language
Sotho-Tswana language spoken in South Africa
Northern Sotho is one of South Africa's twelve official languages and belongs to the Bantu language family specifically the Sotho-Tswana group. The language
Northern_Sotho
In the Sotho language, the deficient verbs are a special subset of Sesotho verbs that require a subordinate or complementary verb to complete their action
Sotho_deficient_verbs
Class of auxiliary verbs in English that lack untensed forms
Appendix:English modal verbs in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The English modal auxiliary verbs are a subset of the English auxiliary verbs used mostly to
English_modal_auxiliary_verbs
Verbs in the English language
Verbs constitute one of the main parts of speech (word classes) in the English language. Like other types of words in the language, English verbs are
English_verbs
Verbs in the Arabic language
Arabic verbs (فِعْل fiʿl; pl. أَفْعَال afʿāl), like the verbs in other Semitic languages, and the entire vocabulary in those languages, are based on a
Arabic_verbs
Part of speech that conveys an action
Adyghe verbs Arabic verbs Ancient Greek verbs Basque verbs Bulgarian verbs Chinese verbs English verbs Finnish verb conjugation French verbs German verbs Germanic
Verb
Overview of how Japanese verbs conjugate
Japanese conjugation, like the conjugation of verbs of many other languages, allows verbs to be morphologically modified to change their meaning or grammatical
Japanese_conjugation
Small set of grammatically distinctive verbs of English
auxiliary verbs are a small set of English verbs, which include the English modal auxiliary verbs and a few others. Although the auxiliary verbs of English
English_auxiliary_verbs
Most verbs of both types are regular, though various subgroups and anomalies do arise; however, textbooks for learners often class all strong verbs as irregular
German_verbs
voice and another for the middle voice. Only some verbs can be conjugated in either voice, most verbs only show one or the other. Originally the active
Sanskrit_verbs
Grammar of the Russian language
the present tense of imperfective verbs and the future tense of perfective verbs. The first conjugation is used in verb stems ending in: a consonant, -у
Russian_grammar
Sounds and pronunciation of the Sotho language
transcription delimiters. The phonology of Sesotho and those of the other Sotho–Tswana languages are radically different from those of "older" or more "stereotypical"
Sotho_phonology
Verbs in the Persian language
which has an active meaning for intransitive verbs, e.g. rafte 'gone', but a passive meaning for transitive verbs, e.g. nevešte 'written (by someone)'. This
Persian_verbs
Verbs in the Spanish language
is typical of verbs in virtually all languages, Spanish verbs express an action or a state of being of a given subject, and like verbs in most Indo-European
Spanish_verbs
Grammatical category in the Bantu language of the Sotho
objects and be inflected as other verbs, but they cannot be predicates (they do not complete a sentence like verbs and copulatives). The class prefix
Sotho_nouns
Verb conjugation in the Catalan language
Niger–Congo Chichewa tenses Sotho deficient verbs Japonic Japanese conjugation Kagoshima dialect godan and ichidan irregular verbs Other East Asian Korean
Catalan_conjugation
Type of inflection in Germanic languages
strong; the majority are weak verbs, which form the past tense by means of a dental suffix. In modern English, strong verbs include sing (present I sing
Germanic_strong_verb
characters. Proto-Indo-European verbs reflect a complex system of morphology, more complicated than the substantive, with verbs categorized according to their
Proto-Indo-European_verbs
Meta-ethnicity of southern Africa
The Sotho-Tswana, also known as the Sotho or Basotho, although the term is now closely associated with the Southern Sotho peoples are a meta-ethnicity
Sotho-Tswana_peoples
Type of verb in Germanic languages
Germanic languages, weak verbs are by far the largest group of verbs, and are therefore often regarded as the norm (the regular verbs). They are distinguished
Germanic_weak_verb
Tone system of the Sotho language
from verbs are independent of the tones of the stem. Some nouns derived from verbs have idiomatic tonal patterns independent of the original verb stem's
Sotho_tonology
Latin grammatical verb inflections
their verbs into three conjugations (coniugationes verbis accidunt tres: prima, secunda, tertia "there are three different conjugations for verbs: the
Latin_conjugation
Verb form derived from common earlier Germanic languages
most verbs fall into one of these categories. Suppletive verbs are completely irregular, being composed of parts of more than one Indo-European verb. There
Germanic_verbs
Parts of speech in French grammar
in -er, except for the irregular verb aller and (by some accounts) the irregular verbs envoyer and renvoyer; the verbs in this conjugation, which together
French_verbs
Verb conjugation in Modern Hebrew grammar
English strong verbs with write-wrote-written and drive-drove-driven sharing root consonants despite differing vowels and meanings. Hebrew verbs are further
Modern_Hebrew_verbs
How verbs are conjugated in Italian
both have stato. All transitive verbs and most intransitive verbs form the present perfect by combining the auxiliary verb avere "to have" in the present
Italian_conjugation
Overview of conjugation in French
300 verbs in this group. 3rd group: All other verbs: verbs with infinitives in -re, -oir, -ir with the present participle ending in -ant, the verb aller
French_conjugation
grammar, the set of inflected forms of a French verb is called the verb's conjugation. French verbs have a large number of simple (one-word) forms. These
French_verb_morphology
equivalents of modal verbs, verbs indicating wishes, suggestions, recommendations and other constructions. The verb kutaka and such verbs expressing wishes
Swahili_grammar
Action words in the Philippine language
Ilocano are not as diverse in forms, verbs are morphologically complex inflecting chiefly for aspect. Ilocano verbs can also be cast in any one of five
Ilocano_verbs
Grammar of the Standard Chinese language
be lexically verbs, and some of them can also function as full verbs. When a coverb phrase appears in a sentence together with a main verb phrase, the
Chinese_grammar
Latin-based alphabet of the Sotho language
The orthography of the Sotho language is fairly recent and is based on the Latin script, but, like most languages written using the Latin alphabet, it
Sesotho_orthography
Translation of the Gregorian calendar
l’Afrique centrale. Mabille, A., Dieterlen, H., and Paroz, R. A. 1950. Southern Sotho-English Dictionary. Morija Sesuto Book Depot. Motingoe, M. M., 2008. Letshwao
Sotho_calendar
Two main types of verbs in the Japanese language
language has two main types of verbs: godan verbs, or quinquegrade verbs (五段動詞, godan-dōshi), and ichidan verbs, or unigrade verbs (一段動詞, ichidan-dōshi). Categories
Japanese godan and ichidan verbs
Japanese_godan_and_ichidan_verbs
Verbs in the Hindi and Urdu languages
complex verbs formed by the combinations of noun/adjective and a verb. Complex verbs are of two types: transitive and intransitive. The transitive verbs are
Hindustani_verbs
Verbs of the Semitic language
indicated, Tigrinya verbs in this article are given in the usual citation form, the third-person singular masculine perfect. A Tigrinya verb root consists of
Tigrinya_verbs
Irregular verbs in the Spanish language
Spanish verbs are a complex area of Spanish grammar, with many combinations of tenses, aspects and moods (up to fifty conjugated forms per verb). Although
Spanish_irregular_verbs
Exceptions to Japanese verb conjugation rules
dōshi) are the common verbs する suru "do" and 来る kuru "come", sometimes categorized as the two Group 3 verbs. As these are the only verbs frequently flagged
Japanese_irregular_verbs
Grammatical forms of verbs in the Portuguese language
Portuguese verbs display a high degree of inflection. A typical regular verb has over fifty different forms, expressing up to six different grammatical
Portuguese_conjugation
Conjugation of verbs in the Spanish language
tables—of Spanish verbs, including examples of regular verbs and some of the most common irregular verbs. For other irregular verbs and their common patterns
Spanish_conjugation
Aspect of Czech grammar
(coincident action/process) Czech verbs are distinguished by aspect, they are either perfective or imperfective. Perfective verbs indicate the finality of the
Czech_conjugation
with auxiliary verbs or deficient verbs. They may appear as prefixes or as infixes. Basically, all formatives that may be affixed to the verb root, excluding
Sesotho_grammar
Grammar of the Turkish language
postpositions, finite verbs always being at the end of a clause. There are two main classes of inflectable words, nouns and verbs, a given root being generally
Turkish_grammar
verb is the most inflected part of speech. Verbs are typically head final and are conjugated for tense, person, number, etc. Some of Circassian verbs
Adyghe_verbs
are the following: Georgian has four classes of verbs: transitive, intransitive, medial and indirect verbs. Each class has its own set of rules of conjugation
Georgian_conjugation
Verbs in the Romance family of languages
Romance verbs are the most inflected part of speech in the language family. In the transition from Latin to the Romance languages, verbs went through many
Romance_verbs
Conjugation of verbs in the Dutch language
different aspects of verb structure and usage. Dutch verbs can be grouped by their conjugational class, as follows: Weak verbs: past tense and past participle
Dutch_conjugation
Part of Korean grammar class
Verbs in the Korean language come in last place in a clause. Verbs are the most complex part of speech, and a properly conjugated verb may stand on its
Korean_verbs
Aspect of verbs in the Irish language
irregular verbs in Standard Irish, whose equivalents when translated into English are irregular verbs as well (e.g. the Irish irregular verb abair is translated
Irish_conjugation
Language component
Gothic verbs have the most complex conjugation of any attested Germanic language. Most categories reconstructed for the Proto-Germanic verb system are
Gothic_verbs
Grammar of the German language
singular present-tense verbs in English, most German verbs employ four different suffixes for the conjugation of present-tense verbs, namely -e for the first-person
German_grammar
Bulgarian verbs are the most complicated part of Bulgarian grammar, especially when compared with other Slavic languages. Bulgarian verbs are inflected
Bulgarian_verbs
the verb is the most inflected part of speech. Verbs are typically head-final and are conjugated for tense, person, number, etc. Some Circassian verbs can
Kabardian_verbs
Important set of words in the Basque language
with verb stems to produce a wide range of finite verb forms. Third-person verbs (here the "person" again refers to the subject in intransitive verbs but
Basque_verbs
Aspect of verbs in the Finnish language
These verbs have a first infinitive ending in two consonants + a: mennä (to go). Another way of describing these verbs is that they have verb stems ending
Finnish_conjugation
Element of Japanese language
Japanese conjugation, like the conjugation of verbs of many other languages, allows verbs to be morphologically modified to change their meaning or grammatical
Japanese conjugation (mizenkei base)
Japanese_conjugation_(mizenkei_base)
Grammar of the Navajo language
Navajo is a "verb-heavy" language – it has a great preponderance of verbs but relatively few nouns. In addition to verbs and nouns, Navajo has other elements
Navajo_grammar
Grammatical features of Old English
verb, as are swim, swam, swum and break, broke, broken. In modern English, strong verbs are rare, and they are mostly categorised as irregular verbs.
Old_English_grammar
Verbs of the Hungarian language
this is reached by removing -ik. These verbs are one of the reasons why this form is the citation form. The -ik verbs were originally middle voice, reflexive
Hungarian_verbs
Verbs in the Slovene language
conjugated as other verbs), while īti can also be conjugated as other verbs. Verb bīti also has a special form when used as an auxiliary verb in conditional
Slovene_verbs
Armenian language component
II verbs (in both dialects) add -եց (-ec῾); · Class III verbs add -աց (-ac῾). The preterite affixes are similar to the imperfect endings of the verb "to
Armenian_verbs
Grammar of the Somali language
by the basic form listed in the table. Somali verbs consist of a stem to which suffixes are added. Verbs in indicative mood exist in four tenses, present
Somali_grammar
Grammar of the Swedish language
groups: About 80% of all verbs in Swedish are group 1 verbs, which is the only productive verb group. Swenglish variants of English verbs can be made by adding
Swedish_grammar
Of verbs
German verbs are conjugated depending on their usage as in English. Verbs in German are modified depending on the persons (identity) and number of the
German_conjugation
Greek language word subclass
Pure verbs, or vocalic verbs, are those verbs of the Greek language that have their word stem ending in a vowel (monophthong or diphthong). The Greek pure
Pure_verbs
Grammatical rules of the Finnish language
from the last stem k, p or t. Some verbs lose elements of their stems when forming the first infinitive. Some verbs stem have contracted endings in the
Finnish_grammar
Morphological feature of verbs in Semitic languages
morphological feature of verbs common to the Semitic languages. These derived verb stems are sometimes called augmentations or forms of the verb, or are identified
Derived_stem
with verbs. Sesotho is a pro-drop language in that in most situations separate words (such as absolute pronouns) do not need to be used with verbs to indicate
Sotho_concords
Language belonging to the Nguni group
Ndebele in the same way that sikitsi will mean Swazi and se harona will mean Sotho. The language has been severely marginalised over the years. Until the formation
Southern_Ndebele_language
Grammar of the English language
inverting the positions of the verb and subject. Modern English permits this only in the case of a small class of verbs ("special verbs"), consisting of auxiliaries
English_grammar
Romanian verbs are highly inflected in comparison to English verbs, but markedly simple in comparison to Latin, from which Romanian has inherited its
Romanian_verbs
Grammar of the Polish language
denotes single completed events (in particular, perfective verbs have no present tense). Verbs often occur in imperfective and perfective pairs – for example
Polish_grammar
regular verb with a stem in да-. Finally note that all verbs with stems that end in к and г undergo the first palatalization. Class 3 verbs with stems
Ukrainian_grammar
Grammar of the Korean language
of speech. Descriptive verbs and action verbs are classified separately despite sharing essentially the same conjugation. Verb endings constitute a large
Korean_grammar
Niger–Congo Chichewa tenses Sotho deficient verbs Japonic Japanese conjugation Kagoshima dialect godan and ichidan irregular verbs Other East Asian Korean
Lists_of_languages
Grammar of the Kurdish language
(Thackston 2006a). Kurdish verbs agree with their subjects in person and number. They have the following major characteristics: Verbs have two stems: present
Kurdish_grammar
Grammar of the Latin language
the ending of a word, but can be more complicated, especially with verbs. Thus verbs can take any of over 100 different endings to express different meanings
Latin_grammar
Grammatical rules of the Lithuanian language
numbers and cases. Its verbs are inflected for person, tense-aspect-mood, and voice. In additional, both its nouns and verbs have multiple inflectional
Lithuanian_grammar
Grammar of the Khmer language
follow verbs when they function as adverbs. Adjectives are actually stative verbs and are used without a copula and can be negated, like other verbs. Comparatives
Khmer_grammar
Bantu language of Zimbabwe and Botswana
(person). Verbs are marked with the following prefixes in agreement with the noun class of the subject and the object: While subject-verb agreement is
Northern_Ndebele_language
verb. Imperfective verbs sometimes take the suffix -ува, e.g. impf. кажува / pf. каже (kažuva / kaže, 'say, tell') Imperfective and perfective verbs sometimes
Macedonian_grammar
Grammar of the Pashto language
Pashto verbs are of four categories: simple verbs, prefixed verbs, a-initial verbs and compound verbs. Prefixed verbs, a-initial verbs and compound verbs are
Pashto_grammar
Part of speech that names an object or set of objects
language has various linguistic and grammatical distinctions between nouns and verbs. Word classes (parts of speech) were described by Sanskrit grammarians from
Noun
Element of Japanese language
Japanese conjugation, like the conjugation of verbs of many other languages, allows verbs to be morphologically modified to change their meaning or grammatical
Japanese conjugation (ren'yōkei base)
Japanese_conjugation_(ren'yōkei_base)
Grammatical rules and syntax in the Nepali language
Also, one exception which does not require obliquing is -sãga "with". Verbs in Nepali are quite highly inflected, agreeing with the subject in number
Nepali_grammar
Grammar of the Cebuano language
affixes can be used for some verbs; some verbs may not make sense with certain groups of affixes. For example, the verb stem anhi (to come) cannot have
Cebuano_grammar
Grammar of the Modern Greek language
contain one or two syllables. In these regular verbs, the augment always appears as έ-. A number of frequent verbs have irregular forms involving other vowels
Modern_Greek_grammar
Grammar of the Japanese language
afterthoughts) always end in a verb (or other predicative words like adjectival verbs, adjectival nouns, auxiliary verbs)—the only exceptions being a few
Japanese_grammar
Name list
Lerato is of Sotho-Tswana origin, stemming from the verb "rata," meaning "to love". Notable people with the name include: Lerato Chabangu (born 1985)
Lerato
imperative are as follows: Verbs with more than one syllable are used without any modification [mɑtʰɑ] matha ('run!') Most monosyllabic verbs may either suffix
Sotho_parts_of_speech
Large language family spoken in Sub-Saharan Africa
million speakers (if Manyika and Ndau are included), while Sotho-Tswana languages (Sotho, Tswana and Pedi) have more than 15 million speakers (across
Bantu_languages
Part of speech
and verbs can typically be distinguished according to their grammatical features: Prototypical nouns can inflect for number while verbs cannot. Verbs take
English_nouns
Structure of the Yiddish language
two classes of verbs for which this happens: verbs with one of several unstressed stem prefixes, such as -פֿאַר far- or -באַ ba-; and verbs built on the
Yiddish_grammar
Grammar of the Burmese language
subclasses of verbs. Auxiliary verbs occur as secondary elements in predicates and include words like modal verbs. These verbs follow the main verb, except
Burmese_grammar
Grammar of the Tamil language
Peyarsol Verbs Vinaisol Particles and Pre-/Postpositions Idaisol Adjective and Adverbs Urisol All categories of nouns are declinable. Verbs are conjugated
Tamil_grammar
Grammar of the Faroese language
[neuter] are people from Europe There are 4 classes of weak inflection of verbs (with some underclasses). Examples: stem-final -a, 2–3.pers.sg. -r – kalla
Faroese_grammar
verbs and the formation of their admissible forms (including, to some extent, literary and archaic ones). The first attempts to classify Czech verbs from
Morphological classification of Czech verbs
Morphological_classification_of_Czech_verbs
tends to vary more, and in many common verbs bears little resemblance to the infinitive or past stem. In some verbs, the present stem is identical to the
Tajik_grammar
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