How to use demonstrative pronouns in Zulu

How to use demonstrative pronouns in Zulu

You want to learn how to use demonstrative pronouns in Zulu? You've come to the right place! Scroll down and see the short Zulu lessons complete with useful examples. This house, that house... we make learning Zulu demonstrative pronouns easy for you.

Zulu demonstrative pronouns : this

Demonstrative pronouns are used with nouns to make them more specific. The English demonstrative pronoun 'this' has various forms in Zulu. The various forms are 'le', 'lo', 'leli' and 'lesi'.

Examples

le ncwadi
this book
le ndoda
this man
le ndlu
this house
lo muntu
this person
leli tafula
this table
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Step 6 : Zulu demonstrative pronouns

Demonstrative pronouns are used to refer to specific objects and their locations. In English, this would be the words this and these to refer to objects which are near and that and those to refer to objects which are further away. Using the nouns incwadi, isihlalo and umnyango (book, chair, door) which you learned in Step 3, learn to use the demonstrative pronouns with each of these nouns (this book, that chair, these doors). You can scroll to the top of this page to see a short lesson about Zulu demonstrative pronouns including useful examples. After you've learned to use the Zulu demonstrative pronouns with the nouns incwadi, isihlalo and umnyango and the plural nouns izincwadi, izihlalo and iminyango you can move on to Step 7 (Zulu adjectives).

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