Kifuliiru verb conjugator

The Kifuliiru verb conjugator documents how finite verb forms are built for a verb lemma across tenses, persons, and often polarity (affirmative / negative / interrogative).

What you get

• Kifuliiru surfaces — the actual verb forms learners read and speak.
• Optional glosses — English, French, and Kiswahili columns for the same person and tense (for comparison, not morpheme-by-morpheme translation).

Inputs and outputs (conceptual)

What goes in

• One verb (Kifuliiru lemma, root, irregular flag, optional class hints).
• Conjugation rules (mood, tense, person, pattern template).
• Optional paradigm helpers for gloss columns.

What comes out

• A table of forms, e.g. “I work / you work / …” in Kifuliiru plus glosses.

How a single form is built

1. Select tense and person (and mood if applicable).
2. Load the pattern for that slot (prefix + root + extensions, or irregular table).
3. Apply subject concord where the pattern expects it (Na-, Wa-, A-, … aligned with pronoun paradigms).
4. Apply negative or question morphology if requested.

Irregular verbs bypass the regular template and use stored exceptions.

Relationship to other topics

• Building Kifuliiru sentences uses conjugated verbs to fill the verb slot, then adds nouns and adverbs.
• The verb lexicon supplies lemmas; conjugation supplies inflected forms.

For readers without the codebase

If you remember one idea: conjugation = rules × verbs. Improve quality by fixing patterns or verb roots, not by collecting random sentences.