menyeka

Swahili

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɛˈɲɛ.kɑ/

Verb

-menyeka (infinitive kumenyeka)

1. Stative form of -menya: to be peeled, to be stripped (of skin, peel…)
   • 2004, Pius B. Ngeze, Kilimo bora cha muhogo‎^[1], Tanzania Educational Publishers, →ISBN:

     Hii ni kwa sababu wakati huo maganda yake humenyeka kwa urahisi.

     This is because at that moment its peel is easily stripped.

2. to toil
   • 2022, Muungano wa Tanganyika na Zanzibar: Chimbuko, Misingi na Maendeleo, Serikali ya Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania, →ISBN:

     Jibu likawa "watumwa" wa kumenyeka kwenye mashamba ya karafuu na minazi Zanzibar pamoja na mashamba ya malighafi ughaibuni […]

     The answer was then "slaves" who toiled in the fields of cloves and coconuts in Zanzibar as well as in the fields of raw materials abroad […]

Conjugation

Conjugation of -menyeka
Positive present -namenyeka Subjunctive -menyeke Negative -menyeki Imperative singular menyeka
Infinitives
Positive kumenyeka Negative kutomenyeka
Imperatives
Singular menyeka Plural menyekeni
Tensed forms
Habitual humenyeka Positive past positive subject concord + -limenyeka Negative past negative subject concord + -kumenyeka
Positive present (positive subject concord + -namenyeka) Singular Plural 1st person ninamenyeka/namenyeka tunamenyeka 2nd person unamenyeka mnamenyeka 3rd person m-wa(I/II) anamenyeka wanamenyeka other classes positive subject concord + -namenyeka
Negative present (negative subject concord + -menyeki) Singular Plural 1st person simenyeki hatumenyeki 2nd person humenyeki hammenyeki 3rd person m-wa(I/II) hamenyeki hawamenyeki other classes negative subject concord + -menyeki
Positive future positive subject concord + -tamenyeka Negative future negative subject concord + -tamenyeka
Positive subjunctive (positive subject concord + -menyeke) Singular Plural 1st person nimenyeke tumenyeke 2nd person umenyeke mmenyeke 3rd person m-wa(I/II) amenyeke wamenyeke other classes positive subject concord + -menyeke
Negative subjunctive positive subject concord + -simenyeke Positive present conditional positive subject concord + -ngemenyeka Negative present conditional positive subject concord + -singemenyeka Positive past conditional positive subject concord + -ngalimenyeka Negative past conditional positive subject concord + -singalimenyeka
Gnomic (positive subject concord + -amenyeka) Singular Plural 1st person namenyeka twamenyeka 2nd person wamenyeka mwamenyeka 3rd person m-wa(I/II) amenyeka wamenyeka m-mi(III/IV) wamenyeka yamenyeka ji-ma(V/VI) lamenyeka yamenyeka ki-vi(VII/VIII) chamenyeka vyamenyeka n(IX/X) yamenyeka zamenyeka u(XI) wamenyeka see n(X) or ma(VI) class ku(XV/XVII) kwamenyeka pa(XVI) pamenyeka mu(XVIII) mwamenyeka
Perfect positive subject concord + -memenyeka "Already" positive subject concord + -meshamenyeka "Not yet" negative subject concord + -jamenyeka "If/When" positive subject concord + -kimenyeka "If not" positive subject concord + -sipomenyeka Consecutive kamenyeka / positive subject concord + -kamenyeka Consecutive subjunctive positive subject concord + -kamenyeke Object concord —
Relative forms General positive (positive subject concord + -menyeka- + relative marker) Singular Plural m-wa(I/II) -menyekaye -menyekao m-mi(III/IV) -menyekao -menyekayo ji-ma(V/VI) -menyekalo -menyekayo ki-vi(VII/VIII) -menyekacho -menyekavyo n(IX/X) -menyekayo -menyekazo u(XI) -menyekao see n(X) or ma(VI) class ku(XV/XVII) -menyekako pa(XVI) -menyekapo mu(XVIII) -menyekamo Other forms (subject concord + tense marker + relative marker + -menyeka) Singular Plural m-wa(I/II) -yemenyeka -omenyeka m-mi(III/IV) -omenyeka -yomenyeka ji-ma(V/VI) -lomenyeka -yomenyeka ki-vi(VII/VIII) -chomenyeka -vyomenyeka n(IX/X) -yomenyeka -zomenyeka u(XI) -omenyeka see n(X) or ma(VI) class ku(XV/XVII) -komenyeka pa(XVI) -pomenyeka mu(XVIII) -momenyeka
Some forms not commonly seen in modern Standard Swahili are absent from the table. See Appendix:Swahili verbs for more information.