ABSTRACT

Notes on the dialogue 1 To express 'I went and came back' it is better Amharic to say

tfcK +o*t\hti-hejje tamallaskw rather than the literal rh»^ h*T •f*<w»/W>h* hedkunna tamallaskw. The form /h,E is another gerundive like those we met in the last lesson. We shall look at gerundives in greater detail in a later lesson.