Language/Amharic/Grammar/Negative-Imperatives

Negative Imperatives in Amharic

You have already worked with the imperative, or command, form of the verb. To form the negative imperative form (“don’t go”, “don’t say”, “don’t eat”), simply add the prefix atï- to the imperative form.

Don't hesitate to look into these other pages after completing this lesson: “to be” and “to have”, Direct and Indirect Object Affixes, Complex Sentence & Pluralizing.

Source

https://www.livelingua.com/peace-corps/Amharic/Amharic%20Peace%20Corps%20Language%20Manual-2015.pdf

Other Lessons

• Definite direct objects in the present and future tense
• Questions
• Negative Present Future Tense
• “to be” and “to have”
• Negation
• Personal pronouns
• Simple Sentence
• Compound sentence
• Pluralizing
• The Past Perfect Tense