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Swahili
Etymology
Borrowed from English peruse.
Verb
-peruzi (infinitive kuperuzi)
- to surf the Internet
Conjugation
Conjugation of -peruzi
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Positive present
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-naperuzi
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Subjunctive
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-peruzi
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Negative
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-peruzi
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Imperative singular
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peruzi
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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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huperuzi
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Positive past
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positive subject concord + -liperuzi
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Negative past
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negative subject concord + -kuperuzi
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Positive present (positive subject concord + -naperuzi)
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Singular
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Plural
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1st person
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ninaperuzi/naperuzi
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tunaperuzi
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2nd person
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unaperuzi
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mnaperuzi
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3rd person
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m-wa(I/II)
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anaperuzi
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wanaperuzi
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other classes
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positive subject concord + -naperuzi
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Negative present (negative subject concord + -peruzi)
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Singular
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Plural
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1st person
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siperuzi
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hatuperuzi
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2nd person
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huperuzi
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hamperuzi
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3rd person
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m-wa(I/II)
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haperuzi
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hawaperuzi
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other classes
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negative subject concord + -peruzi
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Positive future
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positive subject concord + -taperuzi
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Negative future
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negative subject concord + -taperuzi
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Positive subjunctive (positive subject concord + -peruzi)
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Singular
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Plural
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1st person
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niperuzi
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tuperuzi
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2nd person
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uperuzi
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mperuzi
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3rd person
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m-wa(I/II)
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aperuzi
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waperuzi
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other classes
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positive subject concord + -peruzi
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Negative subjunctive
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positive subject concord + -siperuzi
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Positive present conditional
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positive subject concord + -ngeperuzi
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Negative present conditional
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positive subject concord + -singeperuzi
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Positive past conditional
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positive subject concord + -ngaliperuzi
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Negative past conditional
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positive subject concord + -singaliperuzi
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Perfect
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positive subject concord + -meperuzi
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"Already"
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positive subject concord + -meshaperuzi
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"Not yet"
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negative subject concord + -japeruzi
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"If/When"
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positive subject concord + -kiperuzi
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"If not"
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positive subject concord + -sipoperuzi
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Consecutive
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kaperuzi / positive subject concord + -kaperuzi
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Consecutive subjunctive
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positive subject concord + -kaperuzi
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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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References
- ^ Blommaert, Jan (2014) State Ideology and Language in Tanzania, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, →ISBN, page 135: “As with the case of public service managerialism discussed in the previous section, a new lexicon of terms referring to mobile phone and Internet use has emerged very quickly, including terms such as intanet itself, kuperuzi (‘to surf the internet’, from the English ‘peruse’)”
- ^ Petzell, Malin (2005) “Expanding the Swahili vocabulary”, in Africa & Asia, volume 5, archived from the original on 2009-11-29, page 88 of 85-107: “Semantic loans are where an extension of the meaning is borrowed, as in kuperuzi ‘surf’, which stems from English peruse.”