The orthography used in this and related articles is that of South Africa, not Lesotho. For a discussion of the differences between the two see the notes on Sesotho orthography.
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Sesotho verbs are words in the language that signify the action or state of a substantive, and are brought into agreement with it using the subjectival concord. This definition excludes imperatives and infinitives, which are respectively interjectives and class 14 nouns.
In the Bantu languages, verbs often form the centre of a complex web of regular derivational patterns, and words/roots belonging to many parts of speech may be directly or indirectly derived from them. Not only may new verbs be derived using a large number of derivational suffixes, nouns (and, iteratively, the other parts of speech that derive from them), some imperative interjectives and, to a lesser extent, ideophones may be formed by simple morphological devices.
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stem. This participle is active in intransitive verbs, e.g. rafte 'gone', but passive in transitive verbs, e.g. nevešte 'written (by someone)'. As well...
transcription delimiters. The phonology of Sesotho and those of the other Sotho–Tswana languages are radically different from those of "older" or more "stereotypical"...
their verbs into three conjugations (coniugationes verbis accidunt tres: prima, secunda, tertia "there are three different conjugations for verbs: the...
do not use any verbs whatsoever (zero copula), entire predicative sentences in Sesotho may be formed without the use of verbs. Sotho words translation...
language has two main types of verbs which are referred to as pentagrade verbs (五段動詞, godan-dōshi) and monograde verbs (一段動詞, ichidan-dōshi). Categories...
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l’Afrique centrale. Mabille, A., Dieterlen, H., and Paroz, R. A. 1950. Southern Sotho-English Dictionary. Morija Sesuto Book Depot. Motingoe, M. M., 2008. Letshwao...
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