sema'

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Maltese

Root
s-m-għ
4 terms

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Arabic سَمِعَ (samiʕa).

Pronunciation

Verb

sema’ (imperfect jisma’, past participle mismugħ, verbal noun smigħ)

  1. to hear
    • 2018, Antoinette Borg, Amina, Merlin Publishers, →ISBN:
      U nissaħħar nisma’ dak it-tvenvin xħin tibda tiddwella mas-sikkina bil-ħila u l-ħeffa tal-aqwa gwerrier.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
  2. to listen (to)
  3. to listen to (someone’s advice or admonition), to heed
    Wissejthom, imma ma semgħux minni.I warned them, but they wouldn’t listen to me.

Conjugation

Conjugation of sema’
singular plural
1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
perfect m smajt smajt sema’ smajna smajtu semgħu
f semgħet
imperfect m nisma’ tisma’ jisma’ nisimgħu tisimgħu jisimgħu
f tisma’
imperative isma’ isimgħu