Verbs with uku-: [47]

learn or read or study - funda
to learn or to read or to study - ukufunda
talk - thetha to talk - ukuthetha
try - zama to try - ukuzama
go - hamba to go - ukuhamba
live - hlala to live - ukuhlala
like or love - thanda to like - ukuthanda
want or need - funa to want - ukufuna
ask - buza to ask - ukubuza
request politely - cela to request - ukucela
give thanks or be grateful - bulela*
to give thanks - ukubulela *(careful: kill - bulala)
help - nceda to help - ukunceda
see - bona to see - ukubona
listen - mamela to listen - ukumamela
work - sebenza to work - ukusebenza
to use - ukusebenzisa to greet - ukubulisa
So, it is easy, any word in the present, positive i.e.
ending with an –a, just add uku- to the front.

First Important Sentences Context
These sentences are crucial for the time when, after
impressing the socks off a Xhosa person with your
excellent greeting, introduction and pronunciation,
they start speaking to you as if you know the whole
language, at which point you make use of these
sentences instead of using English, or confused
silence...

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