magħad
Maltese
Etymology
From Arabic مَضَغَ (maḍaḡa) with metathesis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /maːt/
- IPA(key): /maˤːt/ (archaic)
Verb
magħad (imperfect jomgħod)
- to chew
Conjugation
- The perfect tense is highly archaic and not part of contemporary standard Maltese. It is replaced with kien + imperfect.
conjugation of magħad
| 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 | mgħadt | mgħadt | magħad | magħdet | mgħadna | mgħadtu | magħdu | ||
| imperfect | nomgħod | tomgħod | jomgħod | tomgħod | nomogħdu | tomogħdu | jomogħdu | ||
| imperative | omgħod | omogħdu | |||||||