Verbs – present tense - Revision history

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Replacing page with 'Verbs in Setswana (and most Bantu languages) are almost always accompanied by a subject marker (except in the imperative/command form). verbs - present tense'

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Jacob at 18:54, 16 May 2007

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Jacob at 19:41, 26 March 2007

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Jacob: /* Verb "to have" */

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Verb "to have"

Jacob at 11:44, 26 March 2007

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Jacob at 11:20, 25 March 2007

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Jacob at 10:53, 25 March 2007

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 ===Vocabulary - Verbs ===
 {| style="color:black;background-color:#ffcc99;" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="1"
-| NOTEDITED ||  dumelang || Hello/Good Morning/Afternoon
+| bereka || work
 |-
-| tsoga || tsogile || wake/woke up
+| rata || like/love
 |-
-| tlhola || tlhotse  || spend/spent the day
+| ithuta || learn
 |-
-| robala || robetse  || sleep/slept
+| tshwara || catch
 |-
-| sala ||   -  || stay
+| thusa || help
 |-
 |}

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 | o* ||  he/she (3rd person)
 |-
-| re || us
+| re || we
 |-
 | le** ||  you (plural)

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 We have already seen the subject markers
 {| style="color:green;background-color:#ffffcc;" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" border="1"
-| ke || me (1st person)
+| ke || I (1st person)
 |-
 | o ||  you (2nd person)
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 | ba || them
 |}
-.*in the negative, this becomes "a"
+.*in the negative, this becomes "a"<br>
-.**in some dialects, marker "lo" is used instead of "le"
+.**in some dialects, marker "lo" is used instead of "le"<br>
 These are the subject markers for people, there are many other markers for nouns which belong to other classes - see later in [[noun classes]]

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 |-
 | re ithutha Setswana  || we are learning Setswana
 |}
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 |-
 | ke a kwala  || I am writing
 |}
 ===Present Tense (negative)===

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 ===Basic Subject Markers===
 {| style="color:green;background-color:#ffffcc;" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" border="1"
 | ke || me (1st person)

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 | Mary o na le Pitso || Mary is with Pitso
 |-
-| Go na le batho mo ofising || There are people in the office (literally "the place is with people in the office")
+| Go na le batho mo ofising || There are people in the office (literally "to be with people in the office")
 |}
-"Go" is the subject marker for places (see later in [[noun classes]])
+"Go" is the subject marker for infinitives (see later in [[noun classes]])
 ===Negative of "to have"===

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 ===Verb "to be"===
-There is no direct equivalent of the verb "to be" in Setswana. The verb "ke" expresses identity, but in other situations, the subject marker is used.
+There is no direct equivalent of the verb "to be" in Setswana. The marker "ke" is used to express identity, but in other situations the normal subject marker is used.
 {| style="color:green;background-color:#ffffcc;" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" border="1"
 | Jane ke moruti ||  Jane is a teacher
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 |}
 This will become clearer with use

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 |}
 .* Note "o" subject marker changes to "a" in negative form
 ===Verb "to have"===