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beba
- inflection of beber:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
beba
- inflection of beber:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Onomatopoeic.
- IPA(key): /běːba/
- Hyphenation: be‧ba
béba f (Cyrillic spelling бе́ба)
- baby
- “beba”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024
- IPA(key): /ˈbeba/ [ˈbe.β̞a]
- Rhymes: -eba
- Syllabification: be‧ba
beba f (plural bebas)
- female equivalent of bebo
beba
- inflection of beber:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
From Proto-Bantu [Term?].
-beba (infinitive kubeba)
- to transport, carry
- (Congolese Swahili, Maniema, Lubumbashi) to take
Conjugation of -beba
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Positive present
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-nabeba
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Subjunctive
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-bebe
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Negative
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-bebi
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Imperative singular
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beba
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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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hubeba
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Positive past
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positive subject concord + -libeba
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Negative past
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negative subject concord + -kubeba
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Positive present (positive subject concord + -nabeba)
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Singular
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Plural
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1st person
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ninabeba/nabeba
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tunabeba
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2nd person
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unabeba
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mnabeba
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3rd person
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m-wa(I/II)
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anabeba
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wanabeba
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other classes
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positive subject concord + -nabeba
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Negative present (negative subject concord + -bebi)
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Singular
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Plural
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1st person
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sibebi
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hatubebi
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2nd person
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hubebi
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hambebi
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3rd person
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m-wa(I/II)
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habebi
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hawabebi
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other classes
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negative subject concord + -bebi
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Positive future
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positive subject concord + -tabeba
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Negative future
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negative subject concord + -tabeba
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Positive subjunctive (positive subject concord + -bebe)
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Singular
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Plural
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1st person
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nibebe
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tubebe
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2nd person
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ubebe
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mbebe
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3rd person
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m-wa(I/II)
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abebe
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wabebe
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other classes
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positive subject concord + -bebe
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Negative subjunctive
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positive subject concord + -sibebe
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Positive present conditional
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positive subject concord + -ngebeba
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Negative present conditional
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positive subject concord + -singebeba
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Positive past conditional
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positive subject concord + -ngalibeba
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Negative past conditional
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positive subject concord + -singalibeba
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Perfect
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positive subject concord + -mebeba
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"Already"
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positive subject concord + -meshabeba
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"Not yet"
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negative subject concord + -jabeba
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"If/When"
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positive subject concord + -kibeba
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"If not"
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positive subject concord + -sipobeba
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Consecutive
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kabeba / positive subject concord + -kabeba
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Consecutive subjunctive
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positive subject concord + -kabebe
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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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beba
- to bear
Borrowed from English paper.
bébà
- paper
- Synonyms: ìwé, tákàdá