• IPA^(key): /ta/

-ta-

1. (with a class prefix and a verb)without ...ing

   kĩiniĩ gĩtaita ―something upside downwithout leaking

   Mũndũ ũtathiaga oigaga no nyina ũrugaga wega. ―One whodoes not travel says only his mother is a good cook.

• “-ta-” in Benson, T.G. (1964).Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 423. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

From-taka(“to want”).Doublet of-taka-.

• (Unguja standard)IPA^(key): /tɑ/
• (Kimvita)IPA^(key): /t̪ɑ/

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In Kimvita, the pronunciation becomes/t̪ʰɑ/ when preceded byn-.

-ta-

1. will,positive and negative future tense marker

   Near-synonym:-taka-(“relative positive future tense marker”)

   watakwenda ―theywill go

   sitakisoma ―Iwill not read it

• (before/o/)-to-
• (before/e/)-te-

Potential cognate withKikuyu-ta-(“"without" infix”),Herero-ha-(“negative infinitive infix”),Kwanyama-ha-(“negative infinitive infix”) andChichewa-sa-(“negative infinitive infix”).

• IPA^(key): /ta/

-ta-

1. negative marker:
   1. negative relative marker
   2. negative infinitive marker
   3. negative subjunctive marker
   4. (with suffix-e)negative remote past marker

ti- is used for all other negative tense–aspect–mood constructions.

• Kaji, Shigeki (2007),A Rutooro Vocabulary‎^[1], Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA),→ISBN, page315

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