![]() ![]() NOTE: ‘kama’ is often used with these markers. Perhaps it would be best if we wouldn’t have sent our children to school. Labda i ngefaa kama tusi ngaliwapeleka watoto wetu shuleni. ![]() If I wouldn’t have been born here maybe I would’ve been a different person. Nisi ngezaliwa hapa labda ni ngekuwa mtu mwingine. Hangekuwa s/he wouldn’t be hawangekuwa they wouldn’t be Hungekuwa you wouldn’t be hamngekuwa you wouldn’t be ![]() Singekuwa I wouldn’t be hatungekuwa we wouldn’t be There is an alternative negative, which is much less frequently used than the -si- type. Ingepita it would pass isingepita it wouldn’t pass Wangekula they’d eat wasingekula they wouldn’t eat Ningekuwa I’d be nisingekuwa I wouldn’t be * Monosyllabic verbs keep the -ku- with these markers, both in the affirmative and the negative. If I would’ve got the money, I would’ve married you. Using the other marker, the sentence would read: In the famous song ‘Malaika’, the singer expresses – in slightly different words -the following The -nge- is more often used with a present time meaning, the -ngali- with the past. In reality, the two markers are used interchangeably. The -nge- marker is said to express a ‘realizable’ condition, the -ngali- a ‘non-realizable’ one. ![]()
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