Zulu Newspaper Reader - Dunwoody Press

(a) + indicative (in a statement of fact or belief):
kubaluleke kakhulu, futhi kuyasiza, uma ufuna ukuphepha
kumalaleveva ‘it is very important, and it is useful, if you want to
escape malaria
UDkt Labuschagne uyavuma futhi uyexwayisa ngokuthi … ‘Dr.
Labuschagne agrees and warns that …’
Ngeke ngihlukane nokufunda futhi akekho oyonginqanda
kulokho. ‘I will never give up study and there is noboy who will
turn me away from it.’
(b) + indicative participial (in a statement of doubt, possibility, …,
when there is another conjunction which requires a participial form,
or where a concurrent action or state is indicated):
Uma ingekho nhlobo enye inhlamvu futhi i-scrotum
singenalutho … ‘If it is completely absent and the scrotum is empty
…’
(c) + potential (in a statement of doubt, possibility, …):
Kubukeka sengathi abantu besimame … banawo umdlandla,
futhi bangaphumelela ezimakethe zomsebenzi ‘it seems as if
women have the enthusiasm, and can succeed in the job market’
(d) + subjunctive (in a statement of obligation, necessity,
importance, …):
kubalulekile ukuthi abonane nodokotela futhi amchazele
ngendawo abekuyo ‘it is important that (s)he see a doctor and
explain to him/her where (s)he was been’
Amadoda angaboni emehlweni kufanele azethembe futhi
akhumbule ukuthi ayafana namadoda abonayo. ‘Blind men
should have faith in themselves and remember that they are the same
as other men.’
(e) + subjunctive (in a statement of frequency, repetition, the norm,
expectation, …):
Amadoda ayahlukunyezwa ngokocansi futhi kulalwe nawo
nangaphandle kwasemajele. ‘Men are sexually assaulted and
people have sex with hem even outside prisons.’
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