The Isizulu: A Grammar of the Zulu Language; Accompanied with a Historical Introduction, Also with an Appendix |
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Common terms and phrases
1st person abantu ba abanye adjective adverb alphabet auxiliary bona bulala cattle compound consonants denote Dingane English euphonic fika final vowel form-Affirmative funa genitive hamba incipient inflection initial vowel inkomo inkosi intulo Isizulu izinkomo kakulu Kodwa kona kraal Kwa nga lala language lapa letter lezi locative loku mkulu mode Mpongwe ndžalo ndže nga ba nga ngi nga si nga nga tanda nge tande ngi be ngi ngi nga ngi nga tandi ngi nga yi ngokuba Nika nominative noun particle Perfect Tense plural predicate prefix preposition present perfect principal verb pronoun second person Second variety sentence signify simple form singular sometimes sound suffix syllable tandanga thing thou tina tiwa tšo ukuba ukuma umfana Umpande umuntu umuti umuzi verb vowel wena words ya ku tanda yena yi ku ba yi ku tanda zi nga Zulu Zulu language
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Page 123 - should and would' are similarly used to form future in the past tenses. b) 'will' in the First Person, and 'shall' in the Second and Third are used as verbs of full meaning followed by an infinitive to express determination, obligation, a promise or a threat.
Page 330 - I am tired of this life, than to tell you any thing relating to it. I live as I did, I think as I did, I love you as I did ; but all these are to no purpose ; the world will not live, think, or love, as I do.
Page 3 - A perfect alphabet of the English language, and, indeed, of every other language, would contain a number of letters, precisely equal to the number of simple articulate sounds belonging to the language. Every simple sound would have its distinct character ; and that character be the representative of no other sound.
Page 48 - Begin with a capital letter : — 1. The first word of every sentence. 2. The first word of every line of poetry. 3. The first word of every direct quotation. 4. Proper nouns and adjectives made from them ; as, Jack Frost, American. NOTE.
Page 419 - Eyer of the cattle of men, Bird of Maube, fleet as a bullet, Sleek, erect, of beautiful parts.
Page xxii - The earliest type of language is supposed to have been monosyllabic. Many substantial reasons might be given in favor of this supposition. " The Chinese and other monosyllabic languages of Asia went off from the main stock, while it was yet in a rude or inorganic state. These languages have been called family languages. Some cause, to us unknown, seems to have stereotyped these languages in this early stage of their existence, and to have prevented their further development.
Page 414 - And now if he catches a snake, he has power over that ; or if he catches an alligator, he has power over that ; or if he catches a leopard, he has power over the leopard ; or if he catches a deadly poisonous serpent, he has power over the most poisonous serpent. And thus he takes his degrees, the degree of leopards, that he may catch leopards, and of serpents, that he may catch serpents.
Page 2 - A, a; B, b; C, c ; D, d; E, e ; F, f; G, g; H, h; I, i; J, j; K, k ; L, 1; M, m ; N, n...
Page xxii - Those who hold to the unity of the human race bold of course to an original language^ Those who hold to an original language naturally wish to show how and in what order the * different families of languages have separated themselves from the main stock. Chevalier Bunsen and Max Miiller have been laboring on this subject with great assiduity, and think to have arrived at important results. The interesting problem before them is this, to place the various families of languages in the line of successive...
Page xliv - That sounds within a determined degree of likeness be represented by signs within a determined degree of likeness ; whilst sounds beyond a certain degree of likeness be represented by distinct and different signs, and that uniformly.