User:Masako/nkala

Nouns

• arya - pupil (of the eye); eye
• betu - house; home; abode
• yum - day; daylight

Pronouns

Subject Suffixes

Person	Singular	Plural
1st	-an	-uk
2nd	-e / -ti	-ut
3rd	-a / -u / -il	-um

Noun modifiers

• -ai / -ya - genitive [GEN]
• -ak / -ha - comitative / instrumental [COM]
• -im - general plural [PL]
• iy- - dative [DAT]
• -o / -wa - oblique [OBL]
• -sh / -da - locative [LOC]
• -y- - accusative [ACC]

Verbs

• amek - to love; to be fond of
• bashra - to err; make a mistake
• ishek - to drink
• neshra - to require; to need
• rayek - to see; look; watch
• shabra - to understand; to know
• shemek - to hear; to listen
• yemek - to eat; consume

Verb modifiers

• -esh - past tense [PST]
• -em - interrogative mood [Q]
• -eya - abstract [ABS], nominalizer [NOM]
• -ek / -ra - infinitive [INF]

Particles

• ne - no; not
• shun - because (of)

Questions

• ma - what; which
• mada - where
• man - who; whose
• amta - when
• shuma - why
• mahi - how
• kam - how much; how many

Sentences

• rayanti

see-1sg-2sg

I see you.

• ne shabuma

no know-3pl-3sg

They do not know her.