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The Future Tense To Be – Learn the Lingala Language

The future tense Conjugating verbs in the future tense in Lingala is easy, provided you remember your pronouns and your verb infinitives.

It still involves a combination of the subject pronoun and the infinitive of the verb, but there is no letter dropping. The infinitive root stays intact and the appropriate subject pronoun is simply placed at the front.

So for kozala, this becomes:

Lingala			English
na+kozala	nakozala	(nah-koh-ZAH-lah)	I will be
o+kozala	okazala	(oh-koh-ZAH-lah)	you will be
a+kozala	akozala	(ah-koh-ZAH-lah)	he/she will be
to+kozala	tokozala	(toh-koh-ZAH-lah)	we will be
bo+kozala	bokozala	(boh-koh-ZAH-lah)	you will be (plural)
ba+kozala	bakozala	(boh-koh-ZAH-lah)	they will be
e+kozala	ekozala	(eh-koh-ZAH-lah)	it will be

As with the distinctive ‘kee’ sound at the end of every past tense verb form, you’ll soon be able to recognise the subject pronoun and ‘ko’ at the beginning and the much different ‘ah’ sound at the end of the verb to help make sense of the lobi yesterday-tomorrow conundrum.

Source

https://lobalingala.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/23042014-loba-lingala.pdf

Other Lessons

• Verb to be
• The Past Tense To Be
• Gender
• Past progressive tense
• Personal pronouns
• POSSESSIVES
• Conjugation To Have
• Present progressive tense
• Simple present tense
• Create simple sentences in the negative
• Irregular verbs – koya – to come
• Prepositions
• Plurals
• Time adverbs
• Subject pronouns