abīrī
- present passive infinitive of abeō
From Arabic عَبَرَ (ʕabara).[1]
-abiri (infinitive kuabiri)
- to cross (a place), travel
Conjugation of -abiri
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Positive present
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-naabiri
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Subjunctive
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-abiri
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Negative
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-abiri
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Imperative singular
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abiri
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Infinitives
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Imperatives
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Tensed forms
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Habitual
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huabiri
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Positive past
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positive subject concord + -liabiri
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Negative past
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negative subject concord + -kuabiri
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Positive present (positive subject concord + -naabiri)
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Singular
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Plural
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1st person
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ninaabiri/naabiri
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tunaabiri
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2nd person
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unaabiri
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mnaabiri
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3rd person
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m-wa(I/II)
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anaabiri
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wanaabiri
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other classes
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positive subject concord + -naabiri
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Negative present (negative subject concord + -abiri)
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Singular
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Plural
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1st person
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siabiri
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hatuabiri
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2nd person
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huabiri
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hamwabiri
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3rd person
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m-wa(I/II)
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haabiri
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hawaabiri
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other classes
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negative subject concord + -abiri
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Positive future
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positive subject concord + -taabiri
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Negative future
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negative subject concord + -taabiri
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Positive subjunctive (positive subject concord + -abiri)
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Singular
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Plural
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1st person
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niabiri
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tuabiri
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2nd person
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uabiri
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mwabiri
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3rd person
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m-wa(I/II)
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aabiri
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waabiri
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other classes
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positive subject concord + -abiri
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Negative subjunctive
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positive subject concord + -siabiri
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Positive present conditional
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positive subject concord + -ngeabiri
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Negative present conditional
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positive subject concord + -singeabiri
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Positive past conditional
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positive subject concord + -ngaliabiri
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Negative past conditional
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positive subject concord + -singaliabiri
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Perfect
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positive subject concord + -meabiri
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"Already"
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positive subject concord + -meshaabiri
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"Not yet"
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negative subject concord + -jaabiri
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"If/When"
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positive subject concord + -kiabiri
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"If not"
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positive subject concord + -sipoabiri
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Consecutive
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kaabiri / positive subject concord + -kaabiri
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Consecutive subjunctive
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positive subject concord + -kaabiri
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Some forms not commonly seen in modern Standard Swahili are absent from the table. See Appendix:Swahili verbs for more information.
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- ^ Baldi, Sergio (2020 November 30) Dictionary of Arabic Loanwords in the Languages of Central and East Africa (Handbuch der Orientalistik; Erste Abteilung: Der Nahe und der Mittlere Osten; 145), Leiden • Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 198 Nr. 1775
- abiri in Swahili Oxford Living Dictionaries, Oxford University Press
Sense 2 is a clipping of makumi abiri (“twenty”).
abiri
- class 6 form of -biri (“two”)
- twenty
- Sense 2 (twenty) cannot not used when a class 6 noun precedes it, in which case it means "two". makumi abiri is used instead.
abiri
- lips