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pona
- to choose
pona
- then; later
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Related to or from -poa”)
-pona (infinitive kupona)
- to heal, to recover
- to survive
| Conjugation of -pona
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| Positive present
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-napona
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| Subjunctive
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-pone
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| Negative
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-poni
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| Imperative singular
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pona
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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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hupona
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| Positive past
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positive subject concord + -lipona
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| Negative past
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negative subject concord + -kupona
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| Positive present (positive subject concord + -napona)
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Singular
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Plural
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| 1st person
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ninapona/napona
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tunapona
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| 2nd person
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unapona
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mnapona
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| 3rd person
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m-wa(I/II)
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anapona
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wanapona
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| other classes
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positive subject concord + -napona
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| Negative present (negative subject concord + -poni)
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Singular
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Plural
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| 1st person
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siponi
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hatuponi
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| 2nd person
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huponi
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hamponi
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| 3rd person
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m-wa(I/II)
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haponi
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hawaponi
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| other classes
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negative subject concord + -poni
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| Positive future
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positive subject concord + -tapona
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| Negative future
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negative subject concord + -tapona
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| Positive subjunctive (positive subject concord + -pone)
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Singular
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Plural
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| 1st person
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nipone
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tupone
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| 2nd person
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upone
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mpone
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| 3rd person
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m-wa(I/II)
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apone
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wapone
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| other classes
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positive subject concord + -pone
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| Negative subjunctive
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positive subject concord + -sipone
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| Positive present conditional
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positive subject concord + -ngepona
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| Negative present conditional
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positive subject concord + -singepona
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| Positive past conditional
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positive subject concord + -ngalipona
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| Negative past conditional
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positive subject concord + -singalipona
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| Perfect
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positive subject concord + -mepona
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| "Already"
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positive subject concord + -meshapona
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| "Not yet"
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negative subject concord + -japona
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| "If/When"
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positive subject concord + -kipona
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| "If not"
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positive subject concord + -sipopona
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| Consecutive
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kapona / positive subject concord + -kapona
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| Consecutive subjunctive
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positive subject concord + -kapone
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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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- Tramutoli, Rosanna (2015) “'Love' Encoding in Swahili: a Semantic Description through a Corpus-Based Analysis”, in Swahili Forum[1], volume 22, →ISSN, page 92 of 72-103:
The verb kutulia expresses the idea of ‘calming down’ (of the physical desire), which only the lover is able to cause. This idea is expressed in Swahili also by other emotional terms, such as kuburudisha ‘to refresh the mind, to chill out, to enjoy’ and burudani ‘entertainment’ (from the same lexical root of baridi ‘cold’), kupona: ‘to recover, to feel better (from kupoa: to cool down’).
pona
- shirt
