Caribbean Hindustani
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dhuku
- Romanization of ꦝꦸꦏꦸ
Borrowed from Arabic ذَاقَ (ḏāqa, “to taste”).[1]
-dhuku (infinitive kudhuku)
- to taste
Conjugation of -dhuku
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Positive present
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-nadhuku
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Subjunctive
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-dhuku
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Negative
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-dhuku
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Imperative singular
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dhuku
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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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hudhuku
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Positive past
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positive subject concord + -lidhuku
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Negative past
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negative subject concord + -kudhuku
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Positive present (positive subject concord + -nadhuku)
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Singular
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Plural
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1st person
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ninadhuku/nadhuku
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tunadhuku
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2nd person
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unadhuku
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mnadhuku
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3rd person
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m-wa(I/II)
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anadhuku
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wanadhuku
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other classes
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positive subject concord + -nadhuku
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Negative present (negative subject concord + -dhuku)
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Singular
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Plural
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1st person
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sidhuku
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hatudhuku
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2nd person
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hudhuku
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hamdhuku
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3rd person
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m-wa(I/II)
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hadhuku
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hawadhuku
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other classes
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negative subject concord + -dhuku
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Positive future
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positive subject concord + -tadhuku
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Negative future
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negative subject concord + -tadhuku
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Positive subjunctive (positive subject concord + -dhuku)
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Singular
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Plural
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1st person
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nidhuku
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tudhuku
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2nd person
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udhuku
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mdhuku
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3rd person
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m-wa(I/II)
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adhuku
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wadhuku
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other classes
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positive subject concord + -dhuku
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Negative subjunctive
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positive subject concord + -sidhuku
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Positive present conditional
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positive subject concord + -ngedhuku
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Negative present conditional
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positive subject concord + -singedhuku
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Positive past conditional
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positive subject concord + -ngalidhuku
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Negative past conditional
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positive subject concord + -singalidhuku
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Perfect
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positive subject concord + -medhuku
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"Already"
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positive subject concord + -meshadhuku
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"Not yet"
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negative subject concord + -jadhuku
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"If/When"
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positive subject concord + -kidhuku
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"If not"
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positive subject concord + -sipodhuku
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Consecutive
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kadhuku / positive subject concord + -kadhuku
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Consecutive subjunctive
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positive subject concord + -kadhuku
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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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- ^ Kees Versteegh (2011) The Word in Arabic[1], volume 62, Brill, page 218: “An important piece of evidence for this thesis is the form in which Arabic weak verbs were borrowed in Swahili (Schwarz 2004: 74): dhuku (< Arabic ḏāqa, imperative ḏuq) ‘to taste’;”