Category:Verbs

Here are all the English and Hausa verbs that have been catalogued. <> A rukunin nan, ana samun kalmomin fi'ili wato kalmar aikatawa.

A verb is a kind of word that usually tells about an action or a state and is the main part of a sentence. In English, verbs are the only kind of word that changes to show past or present tense.

In English, almost all verbs have 6 forms but sometimes these different forms look the same:

1. the plain present tense (go)
2. the 3rd person present tense (goes)
3. the past tense (went)
4. the plain form or infinitive (go)
5. the gerund-participle (going)
6. the past participle (gone)

Note: This category includes all the above forms.

Grade 5 Verbs [1]

Verbs in Hausa are categorized according to a system of grades. Grade 5 (v5 in dictionaries) is the grade that is sometimes referred to as the causative grade because it generally conveys a meaning of causing the object of the verb to do something.

The basic features of a v5 verb are as follows:

All high tones Terminal –r plus the particle da Transitive

For example, the verb saya means to buy. The v5 verb derived from the same root is sayar da, which means to sell (to cause something to be bought).

Many v5 verbs have a short form. For example, the v5 verb ciyar da (to cause to eat) is sometimes shortened to ci da.

The causative effect will not always be as apparent as in the case of saya, and there are a number of exceptional cases. However, the general principles behind this grade are useful.

Hausa Verb Phrases

https://gloss.dliflc.edu/LessonViewer.aspx?lessonId=21860&lessonName=hua_cul302&linkTypeId=0

Students of Hausa have the good fortune of learning a language that requires almost no verb conjugation. There is a relatively simple system of pronoun conjugation and a few changing verbs to deal with. However, within this relatively simple system, there are many subtleties that can be expressed by word order, auxiliary verbs, adverbials, or idiomatic expressions. In this less you will have the chance to observe a few of these features, and see how they work within context.

Links

1. Hausa verb conjugation
2. http://mylanguages.org/hausa_verbs.php
3. http://aflang.humanities.ucla.edu/language-materials/chadic-languages/hausa/hausa-online-grammar/verb-forms/

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