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rahisi
- third-person singular past indicative of rahista
rahisi
- inflection of rahi:
- second-person singular possessive form of nominative/genitive singular
- second-person singular possessive form of nominative/accusative plural
Borrowed from Arabic رَخِيص (raḵīṣ, “inexpensive”).[1]
rahisi (invariable)
- easy (requiring little skill or effort)
- Antonym: -gumu
- cheap, inexpensive
- Antonym: ghali
- simple
-rahisi (infinitive kurahisi)
- to cheapen
- (Can we verify(+) this sense?) to make easier
Conjugation of -rahisi
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Positive present
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-narahisi
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Subjunctive
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-rahisi
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Negative
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-rahisi
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Imperative singular
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rahisi
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Infinitives
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Imperatives
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Tensed forms
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Habitual
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hurahisi
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Positive past
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positive subject concord + -lirahisi
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Negative past
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negative subject concord + -kurahisi
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Positive present (positive subject concord + -narahisi)
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Singular
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Plural
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1st person
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ninarahisi/narahisi
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tunarahisi
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2nd person
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unarahisi
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mnarahisi
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3rd person
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m-wa(I/II)
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anarahisi
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wanarahisi
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other classes
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positive subject concord + -narahisi
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Negative present (negative subject concord + -rahisi)
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Singular
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Plural
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1st person
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sirahisi
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haturahisi
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2nd person
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hurahisi
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hamrahisi
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3rd person
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m-wa(I/II)
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harahisi
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hawarahisi
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other classes
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negative subject concord + -rahisi
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Positive future
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positive subject concord + -tarahisi
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Negative future
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negative subject concord + -tarahisi
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Positive subjunctive (positive subject concord + -rahisi)
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Singular
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Plural
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1st person
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nirahisi
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turahisi
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2nd person
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urahisi
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mrahisi
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3rd person
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m-wa(I/II)
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arahisi
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warahisi
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other classes
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positive subject concord + -rahisi
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Negative subjunctive
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positive subject concord + -sirahisi
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Positive present conditional
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positive subject concord + -ngerahisi
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Negative present conditional
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positive subject concord + -singerahisi
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Positive past conditional
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positive subject concord + -ngalirahisi
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Negative past conditional
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positive subject concord + -singalirahisi
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Perfect
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positive subject concord + -merahisi
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"Already"
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positive subject concord + -mesharahisi
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"Not yet"
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negative subject concord + -jarahisi
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"If/When"
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positive subject concord + -kirahisi
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"If not"
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positive subject concord + -siporahisi
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Consecutive
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karahisi / positive subject concord + -karahisi
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Consecutive subjunctive
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positive subject concord + -karahisi
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Some forms not commonly seen in modern Standard Swahili are absent from the table. See Appendix:Swahili verbs for more information.
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- ^ Baldi, Sergio (2020 November 30) Dictionary of Arabic Loanwords in the Languages of Central and East Africa (Handbuch der Orientalistik; Erste Abteilung: Der Nahe und der Mittlere Osten; 145), Leiden • Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 118 Nr. 1057