Asking in isiNdebele May I or Let us with the Subjunctive Mood in Ndebele

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Kulungile, lamhla let us look at if you may want to know how to ask "May I?" For example if we want to say "May I take this?" we could say "Ngithathe lokhu?". This is using the subjunctive mood and can be used in the future or present tenses in isiNdebele. Another useful expression is adding "Ake" in front of a subjunctive verb, to ask nicely, for example "Ake sihambe" for "Please, let us go". You can read more in the Lessons Tab.

Other uses in the subjunctive mood are:

asihambe "let's go", 

akubuye ungisize "please return to assist me",

Ake uthathe lokhu, budi "please take this, brother",

Ungathathi lokho "Do not take that" (Notice the -nga- as explained in the Lessons tab),

bafana, buyani lingisize "boys, come and help",

gezisa lokhu kodwa ngiyacela, ungagezisi lokho "wash this but please I am asking do not wash that".

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