Caribbean Hindustani [ edit ]
dhuku
money
dhuku
Romanization of ꦝꦸꦏꦸ
From Afrikaans doek .
dhúku class 5 (plural madhúku class 6 )
head tie
Borrowed from Arabic ذَاقَ ( ḏāqa , “ to taste ” ) .[ 1]
-dhuku (infinitive kudhuku )
to taste
Conjugation of -dhuku
Positive present
-na dhuku
Subjunctive
-dhuku
Negative
-dhuku
Imperative singular
dhuku
Infinitives
Imperatives
Tensed forms
Habitual
hudhuku
Positive past
positive subject concord -li dhuku
Negative past
negative subject concord -ku dhuku
Positive present (positive subject concord -na dhuku)
Singular
Plural
1st person
ni nadhuku/na dhuku
tu nadhuku
2nd person
u nadhuku
m nadhuku
3rd person
m-wa(I/II)
a nadhuku
wa nadhuku
other classes
positive subject concord -na dhuku
Negative present (negative subject concord -dhuku )
Singular
Plural
1st person
si dhuku
hatu dhuku
2nd person
hu dhuku
ham dhuku
3rd person
m-wa(I/II)
ha dhuku
hawa dhuku
other classes
negative subject concord -dhuku
Positive future
positive subject concord -ta dhuku
Negative future
negative subject concord -ta dhuku
Positive subjunctive (positive subject concord -dhuku )
Singular
Plural
1st person
ni dhuku
tu dhuku
2nd person
u dhuku
m dhuku
3rd person
m-wa(I/II)
a dhuku
wa dhuku
other classes
positive subject concord -dhuku
Negative subjunctive
positive subject concord -si dhuku
Positive present conditional
positive subject concord -nge dhuku
Negative present conditional
positive subject concord -singe dhuku
Positive past conditional
positive subject concord -ngali dhuku
Negative past conditional
positive subject concord -singali dhuku
Perfect
positive subject concord -me dhuku
"Already"
positive subject concord -mesha dhuku
"Not yet"
negative subject concord -ja dhuku
"If/When"
positive subject concord -ki dhuku
"If not"
positive subject concord -sipo dhuku
Consecutive
kadhuku / positive subject concord -ka dhuku
Consecutive subjunctive
positive subject concord -ka dhuku
Some forms not commonly seen in modern Standard Swahili are absent from the table. See Appendix:Swahili verbs for more information.
^ Kees Versteegh (2011 ) The Word in Arabic [1] , volume 62 , Brill , page 218 : “An important piece of evidence for this thesis is the form in which Arabic weak verbs were borrowed in Swahili (Schwarz 2004: 74): dhuku (< Arabic ḏāqa, imperative ḏuq) ‘to taste’; ”