Concord Revision #1

Molo, mfundi! Unjani namhlanje? Ndiyathemba urayithi!

Hello, student! How are you today? I hope you’re well!

Let’s revise some of the grammar foundations we’ve been exploring:

• Subject Concords
• Copulative Concords (and Kukho and Khona too!)
• Possessive Concords
• Object Concords
• Adjectives and Numbers
• Locatives and Prepositions

How about we try out some sentences that make use of all the above? C’mon, I believe in you! Feel free to use the vocabulary lists, if you need help.

Imibuzo

Guqulela esiXhoseni (translate into Xhosa):

1. The three small boys eat their bread at the river.
2. I sweep my big room in the morning.
3.  The beautiful man gives us many fruit.
4. It is my grandmother’s dog’s food!
5. Our tall trees are shaking a lot.

Translate into English (Guqulela esiNgesi):

6. Izilwanyana (animals) ezisixhenxe ezikhulu ziyabaleka emva kwentaba endala.
7. Abaqhubi abalithoba bayalinda ngeCawe ebusuku.
8. Asiyomilenze yam!
9. Ayikho mali ngoku! Uxolo, mhlekazi!
10. Ndithenga umbane wenu evenkileni ngoLwesine.

Iimphendulo

1. Amakhwenkwe amathathu amancinci atya isonka sabo emlanjeni.
2. Nditshayela egumbi lam elikhulu ekusasa.
3. Indoda entle iyathinika iziqhamo ezininzi.
4. Kukutya kwenja kamakhulu wam!
5. Imithi yade yethu ingcangcazela kakhulu.
6. The seven big animals are running behind the old mountain.
7. The nine drivers wait on a Sunday night.
8. They are not my legs!
9. There’s no money today! Sorry, sir!
10. I buy your (pl.) electricity at the shop on Thursday.