KwaunobvaMutauroChidudziramuiti (Relative)
Mutauro
Chidudziramuiti (Relative)
The Relative Concord
Tsanangudzo
Chidudziramuiti chinodudzira muiti wechiitiko, chichibatanidza mutsara mumwe nomumwe zita rawuri kutsanangura. Chinoumbwa netaridzamuitirwi/taridzamuiti, chiratidzanguva, mudzi wechiito, uye nzvowera yokupedzisira, senge 'wandakaona' (wa- + -nd- + -aka- + -on- + -a), 'Munhu wandakaona ndiTaurai.'
In English
The relative concord marks who or what performed an action, linking a clause back to the noun it describes. It is built from a subject or object marker, a tense marker, the verb stem, and the final vowel, e.g. 'wandakaona' ('whom I saw') in 'Munhu wandakaona ndiTaurai' ('The person I saw is Taurai').