obda
Borrowed from Sicilian obbidiri, ubbidiri and/or Italian obbedire, ubbidire, both from Latin oboedire. The Maltese imperfect tense looks like a native form, whence the Semitic (alternative) past participle. The regularisation of the past tense into *beda was hindered by the unrelated beda (“to begin”).
obda (imperfect jobdi, past participle obdut or mobdi)
Conjugation of obda | ||||||||
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singular | plural | |||||||
1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | |||
perfect | m | obdejt | obdejt | obda | obdejna | obdejtu | obdew | |
f | obdiet | |||||||
imperfect | m | nobdi | tobdi | jobdi | nobdu | tobdu | jobdu | |
f | tobdi | |||||||
imperative | obdi | obdu |