Chichewa Verbs

Question 1

kusowa

Answer 1

to be missing

Question 2

kuthandiza

Answer 2

to help

Question 3

kugwira

Answer 3

to catch, grab, hold, touch

Question 4

kumva

Answer 4

to hear

Question 5

kuchoka

Answer 5

to leave, go away

Question 6

kulira

Answer 6

to cry

Question 7

kugula

Answer 7

to buy

Question 8

kukwatira

Answer 8

to marry

Question 9

kuli

Answer 9

to be

Question 10

Kukumana

Answer 10

To meet

Question 11

Kuchita

Answer 11

To do

Question 12

Kulonjera

Answer 12

To greet

Question 13

Kulonjerana

Answer 13

To greet each other

Question 14

Kukulira

Answer 14

To be too big for; to grow up

Question 15

Kuchokera

Answer 15

1. To come from
2. Depart from
3. Emanate from
4. Derive from

Question 16

Kubadwa

Answer 16

To be born

Question 17

kukwatibwa

Answer 17

to be married (a woman)

Question 18

Kukwatira

Answer 18

To marry (a man marries)

Question 19

kukwatiwa

Answer 19

to marry (a woman marries)

Question 20

Kukwatirana

Answer 20

To get married (to one another)

Question 21

Kukwatiranso

Answer 21

To remarry
or
To be marriageable

Question 22

kukwatitsa

Answer 22

1. to get married
2. marry (perform a wedding service)
3. graft (one tree onto another)

Question 23

Kukwatula

Answer 23

1. Remove something
2. Snatch
3. Bring back
4. Prune

Question 24

Kukwatulidwa

Answer 24

To be raptured

Question 25

Kudzipereka

Answer 25

To volunteer/To serve

Question 26

Kukulunga

Answer 26

To wrap/wind/wind round/swathe

Question 27

Kuthira

Answer 27

To pour

Question 28

Kuthirira

Answer 28

To water/irrigate/pour

Question 29

Kutseka

Answer 29

To close

Question 30

Kutsekula

Answer 30

To open

Question 31

Kuseka

Answer 31

To laugh

Question 32

Kulima

Answer 32

To farm

Question 33

kupalira

Answer 33

To remove the grass/weed

Question 34

Kupalirista/kupalitsa

Answer 34

To weed

Question 35

Kuzula

Answer 35

To pull up by the roots/uproot/gather/pluck a fowl/extract

Question 36

kulowa

Answer 36

to enter

Question 37

kuyankhula

Answer 37

to speak

Question 38

kukhala

Answer 38

to sit, stay, live

Question 39

kuwuza

Answer 39

to tell

Question 40

kudandaula

Answer 40

to worry

Question 41

kulimbikitsa

Answer 41

to encourage

Question 42

kuchedwa

Answer 42

To be late

Question 43

kudula

Answer 43

To cut/be expensive

Question 44

Kuyiwala

Answer 44

To forget

Question 45

kuyimbe

Answer 45

To sing

Question 46

kuphatikiza

Answer 46

To include

Question 47

kudzera

Answer 47

To pass through

Question 48

kupempha

Answer 48

To request

Question 49

kudalitsa

Answer 49

To bless

Question 50

kunyamuka

Answer 50

To start off

Question 51

Kumvetsa

Answer 51

to understand

Question 52

kujeda

Answer 52

to gossip

Question 53

kumaliza/kutsiriza

Answer 53

To finish

Question 54

Kuyamba

Answer 54

To start/begin/be first

Question 55

Kufunsa

Answer 55

To ask/inquire

Question 56

Kuthokoza

Answer 56

To thank

Question 57

Kubwera

Answer 57

To come

Question 58

Kuyambitsa gulu

Answer 58

To start a club/group

Question 59

Kuwotcha

Answer 59

To burn

Question 60

Kuwotchera

Answer 60

To weld

Question 61

Kuphika

Answer 61

To cook

Question 62

Kuyendetsa

Answer 62

To drive

Question 63

Kukwera

Answer 63

To ride/climb

Question 64

Kuwuluka

Answer 64

To fly

Question 65

Kutopa

Answer 65

To be tired

Question 66

Kugona

Answer 66

To sleep

Question 67

Kugonetsa

Answer 67

To put to sleep

Question 68

Kupanda

Answer 68

To be without

Question 69

Kumenya

Answer 69

To beat

Question 70

Kuvuta

Answer 70

To be difficult

Question 71

Kufa

Answer 71

To die

Question 72

Kupha

Answer 72

To kill

Question 73

Kumwalira

Answer 73

To die for

Question 74

Kunena

Answer 74

To say

Question 75

Kukumbikira

Answer 75

To remember

Question 76

Kukumbutsa

Answer 76

To remind

Question 77

Kudziwa

Answer 77

To know

Question 78

Kuganiza

Answer 78

To think

Question 79

Kulemba ntchito

Answer 79

To hire

Question 80

Kufotokoza

Answer 80

To explain

Question 81

Kupanga

Answer 81

To make/invent

Question 82

Kufera

Answer 82

To die for

Question 83

Kukula

Answer 83

To grow

Question 84

Kukukira

Answer 84

To grow from a place (to grow up

Question 85

Kugwada

Answer 85

To kneel down

Question 86

Kuchotsera

Answer 86

To subtract

Question 87

Kutsitsa

Answer 87

To lower, offload

Question 88

Kuchepetsa

Answer 88

To reduce

Question 89

Kucheza

Answer 89

To chat