The main person or actor of a sentence is the subject .
A subject concord is a slightly changed noun prefix.
A subject concord is added to the beginning of a word.
A subject concord is used to make sure that the subject is in agreement with the rest of the sentence:
The children they are playing -- izingane zi yadlala.
The food it is delicious -- ukudla ku mnandi.
The singer he/she is singing a song -- umculi u yacula iculo.
The author he/she is writing a book -- umbhali u yabhala incwadi.
The object is the person or thing that is not the main subject of the sentence (obviously. )
An object concord is a slightly changed noun prefix.
An object concord is added to the middle of a word.
We use object concords together with or in place of an object:
We do not see him/her (our teacher) -- asi m boni (uthisha wethu)
I respect it (the Earth) -- ngiya wu hlonipha (umhlaba)
A pronoun can replace the subject of a sentence.
We call this a subject concord .
A subject concord appears at the beginning of a word.
I am talking -- mina ngi yakhuluma
You are talking -- wena u yakhuluma
He/She is talking -- yena u yakhuluma
We are talking -- thina si yakhuluma
You all are talking -- nina ni yakhuluma
They are talking -- bona ba yakhuluma
A pronoun can replace the object of a sentence.
We call this an object concord .
An object concord appears in the middle of a word.
You see me -- wena u ya ngi bona.
They see you -- ba ya ku bona.
We see him/her -- si ya m bona.
He/She sees us -- yena u ya si bona.
I see you all - ngi ya ni bona.
You all see them -- ni ya ba bona.
To create a possessive pronoun we do the following:
1. Identify the noun that belongs to someone.
My dog (inja)
Your shoes (izicathulo)
2. Take the concord of the noun (not the noun prefix).
Dog -- i n ja
Shoes -- i zi cathulo
3. If the concord has only one letter, change it. If the concord has more than one letter, drop the last vowel.
i -- changes to y
zi -- drops to z
4. Add this new prefix to the possessive root word .
My dog -- inja y ami
Your shoes -- izicathulo z akho
