Zulu Newspaper Reader - Dunwoody Press

isiboshwa sathi besitshelwe ngamaphoyisa ukuthi asithini ‘the
prisoner said that he had been told by the police what to say (lit. that
let him say what)’
Ijaji lithe ngesigwebo elisikhiphile liqonde ukuthi lo mbulali
ahlale impilo yakhe yonke ejele. ‘The judge said that with the
sentence she imposed, she intended that this killer should spend the
rest of his life in jail.’
(b) + subjunc: ‘that’
(in a statement of obligation, necessity; after verbs of ordering,
instructing, requesting, …; after forms indicating preference or
importance):
babe sebecela ukuthi balungiselwe le nkinga ‘they asked that they
should have this problem resolved for them’
okubalulekile wukuthi bafunde ‘what is important is that they
should study’
(c) + subjunc:
(in clauses indicating repeated, common, usual, normal, actions;
these are often preceded by the auxiliary verb -vam- ‘do usually,
often, …’ The conjunction ukuba may also be used in such cases.)
Kuvamile ukuthi izinhlamvu zangasese zingalingani ‘It is normal
for the testes not to be the same’
Akuvamile ukuthi lesifo usithole kulezozindawo ‘It is not usual to
find this disease in those places (lit it is not usual that this disease
you should find it …)’
(d) + subjunc:
(after the phrase ngaphandle kokuthi ‘unless, without’):
bese sifika esivumelwaneni naye ngaphandle kokuthi kube
khona olimalayo noma oboshwayo ‘then we come to an agreement
with him/her without there being anyone who gets hurt or arrested’
waphumelela ngaphandle kokuthi azame ‘(s)he succeeded without
trying’
izilwanyazana zingenile ngaphandle kokuthi sizinake ‘the insects
got in without us noticing them’
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