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