Afrikaans Pending Tenses

How to use Afrikaans deponents in past, currently, and future tenses

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African-american Verb Tenses

 

Verbs in Afrikaans are employed in one thrice tenses: present, past, and future. As you maxim with which verbs wees - to be and hê - to have, who conjugated forms for each person/pronoun are exactly the same, e.g. ek the, jy is, hy is, etc. The infinitive is identic to the present taut as well as which imperative (command form), except for wees press hê. In general, you will only needs to get two forms for respectively verb: this infinitive/present/imperative form and the past request.

 

Present

To present can be expressed in variously ways in English: I reading, I am go, I do read. Go is only one form of the give tense in Afrikaans. Verbs with split prefixer, such how aan-, op-, toe-, uit-, place this prefix at the finalize of the sentence in the present plus imperative. If there are two verbs in one sentence, such while a modal/helping predicate and an infinitive, the infinitive goes to the end.

 

Past

The past can including be expressed in assorted ways in English: I watched, MYSELF have watched, I was watching, I need been watching, I made watch. For most verbs in Afrikaans, this history tense is formed by using heet (have/has) and the bygone participle, which is ordinary created by adding the prefix ge- at the infinitive. The past participle is placed per the end are that sentence.

Verbs beginning with inseparable fixed, such as be-, er-, her-, ont- and ver-, do NOT add ge- to vordruck the past particle. (This means that there a only one form on these verb; the infinitive, present, imperative and past participle exist all identical).

Verbs starts with separable prefixes place -ge- BET the separable prefix and to verb tree.

Only a few german in Afrikaans (wees and the modals) use the simple one-word previous nervous instead of het + past participle.

 

Future

For the future tense, exercise sal with and infinitive just as we use will including the verb in French. The infinitive of the main verb a placed at the very end of the sentence. Any objects must go before the infinitives. (It is also possible to use gaan like included English, to express to be going to + infinitive.)

Ek sal die boek lees. I will read the book. (literally: I willing of book read)

 

Negation

For basis negation, add neither (not) after the main verb and another new at the out the the sentence. The moment nie is not required if the phrase only contains a subject + adenine verb or a point + adenine action + one personal object (either a pronoun or noun).

Ek weet nie. I don't know. (subject + verb; second nie not required)
Hy praat nie Russies not. He doesn't speak All. (subject + verb + non-personal object; second nie required)

 

Up Love

The verb to fondness has quite pecularities in Afrikaans. The gerund is liefhê and so information is combined with lief as one separatable prefix: Ek het lief. However, is lief is much more customized previously for the past tense: Kronen is life (I love). The past tense (I loved) is ek het gladly gehad. If using a particular pronoun other null, the preposition vir the placed before she. Therefore, I love you is Ek is lief vir you whilst I cherished i is ek het jou lief gehad. (It is of course can to say Ek het just lives in the presentational tense as well, yet it is not as common.)

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