Borrowed from Arabic اِخْتِلَاف (iḵtilāf).[1]
hitilafu (n class, plural hitilafu)
- difference, discord
- discrepancy, defect, blemish
-hitilafu (infinitive kuhitilafu)
- to differentiate, differ, distinguish
Conjugation of -hitilafu
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Positive present
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-nahitilafu
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Subjunctive
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-hitilafu
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Negative
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-hitilafu
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Imperative singular
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hitilafu
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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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huhitilafu
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Positive past
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positive subject concord + -lihitilafu
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Negative past
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negative subject concord + -kuhitilafu
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Positive present (positive subject concord + -nahitilafu)
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Singular
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Plural
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1st person
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ninahitilafu/nahitilafu
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tunahitilafu
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2nd person
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unahitilafu
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mnahitilafu
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3rd person
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m-wa(I/II)
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anahitilafu
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wanahitilafu
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other classes
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positive subject concord + -nahitilafu
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Negative present (negative subject concord + -hitilafu)
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Singular
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Plural
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1st person
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sihitilafu
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hatuhitilafu
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2nd person
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huhitilafu
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hamhitilafu
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3rd person
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m-wa(I/II)
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hahitilafu
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hawahitilafu
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other classes
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negative subject concord + -hitilafu
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Positive future
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positive subject concord + -tahitilafu
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Negative future
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negative subject concord + -tahitilafu
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Positive subjunctive (positive subject concord + -hitilafu)
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Singular
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Plural
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1st person
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nihitilafu
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tuhitilafu
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2nd person
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uhitilafu
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mhitilafu
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3rd person
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m-wa(I/II)
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ahitilafu
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wahitilafu
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other classes
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positive subject concord + -hitilafu
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Negative subjunctive
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positive subject concord + -sihitilafu
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Positive present conditional
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positive subject concord + -ngehitilafu
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Negative present conditional
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positive subject concord + -singehitilafu
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Positive past conditional
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positive subject concord + -ngalihitilafu
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Negative past conditional
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positive subject concord + -singalihitilafu
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Perfect
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positive subject concord + -mehitilafu
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"Already"
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positive subject concord + -meshahitilafu
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"Not yet"
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negative subject concord + -jahitilafu
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"If/When"
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positive subject concord + -kihitilafu
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"If not"
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positive subject concord + -sipohitilafu
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Consecutive
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kahitilafu / positive subject concord + -kahitilafu
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Consecutive subjunctive
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positive subject concord + -kahitilafu
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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 94 No. 829