jongħos

jongħos

Maltese

Alternative forms

• għonos (rare colloquial past tense with metathesis)

Etymology

From the imperfect tense of Arabic نَعَسَ‎ (naʿasa).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈjɔnɔs/
• IPA^(key): /ˈjɔnɔˤːs/ (archaic)

Verb

jongħos (imperfect only)

1. to be sleepy; to doze off; to fall asleep inadvertently

Conjugation

• In contemporary standard Maltese, this verb is defective and has no perfect forms. The latter can be replaced with forms of kien + imperfect.

conjugation of jongħos

	singular					plural
	1st person	2nd person	3rd person m	3rd person f		1st person	2nd person	3rd person
	jien(a)	int(i)	hu(wa)	hi(ja)		aħna	intom	huma
perfect	kont nongħos	kont tongħos	kien jongħos	kienet tongħos		konna nonogħsu	kontu tonogħsu	kienu jonogħsu
imperfect	nongħos	tongħos	jongħos	tongħos	nonogħsu	tonogħsu	jonogħsu
imperative		ongħos				onogħsu

Related terms

• nagħas