Noun Prefixes - Grammar- Class 7 - How to speak isiZulu - Beginner Zulu Lessons - Grammar

[@dmd5060]

Hi Teacher Thando,I hope you are well. You know strange or interesting enough, just now before i typed this, i was speaking with one of my res mates ngesiZulu after watching this video while having breakfast, and i was somewhat calm nd confident nd i was speaking quite well, i was surprised because it’s almost like it was happening subconsciously nd I was literally hearing myself speak....it was cool

[@ZuluLessonswithThando]

Dichaba, this is such great news! Thank you so much for letting me know! There's more grammar coming this week. Do let me know when you encounter challenges, so I can assist.

[@dmd5060]

Thank you very much, I will definitely start taking proper notes of where I struggle nd will inform you. I’ll also tell my Zulu housemates to speak with me more in Zulu, and that I’m systematically learning it from one of the Greatest Teachers of all time, Thando😅

[@ZuluLessonswithThando]

☺Oh, ngiyabonga Dichaba

[@vincentvanwyk5522]

Great video thanks. Perhaps in the future you could do a short dialogue with a friend in zulu?

[@ZuluLessonswithThando]

Thank you (Ngiyabonga) Vincent. Will work on that.

[@tafadzwamwedzi]

But i have a question though For words like ukhetho and ubuhlalu, things like elections and beads in some instances can be counted so please, kindly clarify what you mean when you say its uncountable do you mean its not countable in Zulu only or its not countable even in English?

[@ZuluLessonswithThando]

Sawubona. I'm not referring to English. only in isiZulu. Those nouns are uncountable nouns. YOu can force and put a number on them, but you can't make them plural or singular. The word remains the same, whether there's one bead or 100 beads. For example, Ubuso (the face), in isiZulu, there is no plural for that word. YOu can say "Ubuso obuthathu." (3 faces), but you can't make the noun (the word) itself plural, note that it is still the same, ubuso. No matter how many.

[@tafadzwamwedzi]

@@ZuluLessonswithThando yessss i can see now Thank you so much!❣

[@kangwachewe697]

So ubuthongo is the same as ukulala/lala and isela is the same as utsotsi?

[@ZuluLessonswithThando]

Yebo. As for utsotsi, I'm not quite certain what language it is, but let's use the ones that are isiZulu: Isela and isigebengu.

[@kangwachewe697]

@@ZuluLessonswithThando I actually got utsotsi from you because if you look back at your video for Sounding The Alphabet ,under S you said utsotsi for thief

[@ZuluLessonswithThando]

I’m not saying it’s not used. I’m telling you a word you’d rather use.

[@tafadzwamwedzi]

@@ZuluLessonswithThando Tsotsi you would mainly find it in my native language which is Shona But thanx for the lessons though! I have followed through all the lessons from class 1 up to 7 Very helpful indeed! Thank you!😅❣🔥

[@simthandilemanyathi2116]

Sawbona mamThando, Can I get asistence please. I would like to know why ulaka would be an example of these nouns when you said the prefixes were ub- and ubu- ? Thanks

[@ZuluLessonswithThando]

Sawubona Simthandile. There are nouns that are pronounced and written without certain prefixes, but when we go back in history, we find they had those prefixes. There are others here like: utshwala, utshani. When we use them in a sentence, the subject concord will be the same as those starting with 'ubu and ub'.

[@khwezipheks]

yoh this was actually helpful lol

[@ZuluLessonswithThando]

Oh! That's great Khwezi!

[@succswealth6037]

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