Zulu Newspaper Reader - Dunwoody Press

explanation of where the monies go because ever since they started
paying, they have never seen any guards’ [At first glance it may
seem that baqala is principal, since the SC would appear to be bainstead
of be-. However, the correct segmentation of this word is:
be- SC + -a- remote past prefix + qala
with the vowel of be- being elided before the vowel of the remote
past prefix.]
2.3.17. kade ‘until (in the distant future), and then, already, for a
long time’
+ participial [the significances and syntax of this item are much
more complex than indicated here, but since there is only
Kusazothatha iminyaka eminingi kade iNkatha yazi ukuthi iyini
ipolitiki. ‘It will still take many years until Inkatha knows what
politics is.’
Yekani umuntu omdala aziphumulele kade ayidonsa ku le ndima
yokuhola abantu. ‘Let the old man just rest “since for a long time
he carried the burden” of leading the people.’
3. Tables of Nominal Prefixes and Concords
Table 1. Noun Prefixes
Cl 1 2 3 4
1 um- um- umu-
2 aba- ab- abe-
1a u-
2a o- bo- awo-
3 um- um- umu-
3a u-
4 imi- im-
5 i- ili-
6 ama- ame-
7 isi- is-
8 izi- iz-
9 iN-
9a i-
10 iziN-
10a izi-
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