CHAPTER 5
A LEARNER'S SYNOPSIS OF KIRUNDI STRUCTURE
What is the grammatical term for the underlined part of each word?
| Babigura. | [object prefix] |
| Ba}bigura. | [subject prefix] |
| Babibona. | [stem] |
| Babiguriisha. | [non—final suffix] |
| Tubikeneye. | [subject prefix] |
| Tuyikeneye. | [object prefix] |
| Bazigoroora. | [final suffix] |
| Babiguriisha. | [base] |
Pick out the part of each word that is named by the grammatical term:
| The subject prefix in /bagura/. | [bagura] |
| ‘they sell‘ | |
| The object prefix in /tubibona/. | [tubibona] |
| ‘we see them! | |
| The stem in /tuyarimiisha/. | [tuyarimiisha] |
| 'we cause them to cultivate' | |
| The base in /tuyarimiisha/. | [tuyarimiisha] |
| The non-final suffix in /tuyarimiisha/. [tuyarimiisha] | |
| The root in /tuyarimiisha/. | [tuyarimiisha] |
The separate verb forms which may be constructed on a single verb base in Kirundi number in the thousands. Fortunately, the system by which they are formed is not so complicated as this might suggest, Many of them differ from one another only in the identity of the subject and/or object prefixes which they contain. In general, the choice of one of these prefixes rather than another
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