Editing Comorian languages (section)

=== Verbs ===
Comorian languages exhibit a typical Bantu verb structure. 
{| class="wikitable"
|+Comorian Verb Structure
!Slot
!1
!2
!3
!4
!5
!6
!7
!8
|-
|Content
|Verbal preprefix (pre)
|Subject Marker (SM)
|Tense-Aspect-Mood
|Object Marker (OM)
|Root
|Extension
|Final Vowel
|Suffix
|}
Although there is only one form of the subject marker for personal plural subjects and for subjects belonging to the classes 3-18.
{| class="wikitable"
|+Subject Pronouns<ref name=":3">{{cite journal |last1=Full |first1=Wolfram |title=Two past tenses in Comorian: morphological form and inherent meaning |journal=Swahili Forum |date=2001 |volume=8 |pages=49–58 |url=https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-91542 |access-date=2024-02-24 |archive-date=2024-03-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240306034800/https://ul.qucosa.de/landing-page/?tx_dlf&#91;id&#93;=https%3A%2F%2Ful.qucosa.de%2Fapi%2Fqucosa%253A11537%2Fmets |url-status=live }}</ref>
!
!Set 1
!Set 2
!Set 3 
(Shingazija and Shimwali only)
|-
!1sg
|''ni-''
|''tsi-''
|''-m-''
|-
!2sg
|''u-''
|''hu-/u-''
|''-o-''
|-
!3sg
|''a-''
|''ha-/a-''
|''-u-''
|-
!1pl
| colspan="3" |''ri-''
|-
!2pl
| colspan="3" |''m-/mu-''
|-
!3pl
| colspan="3" |''wa-''
|}
In Proto-Sabaki, the 2sg and 2sg subject markers were ''*ku'' and *''ka'', respectively. However, the ''*k'' was weakened to ''h'' in Shingazija and further to ''Ø'' in all other dialects.<ref>{{cite journal |id={{INIST|6144169}} |last1=Nurse |first1=D |title=The Proto-Sabaki Verb System and its Subsequent Development |journal=The Proto-Sabaki Verb System and Its Subsequent Development |date=1983 |volume=5 |pages=45–109 }}</ref> 

Verbs can be negated by adding the prefix ''ka-''. However, occasionally other morphemes of the verb may take on different meanings when the negative prefix is added, such as in the following example, where the suffix ''-i'', usually the past tense, takes on the present habitual meaning when it is in a negative construction.

{{Interlinear|ri-dy-i nyama|1PL-eat-PST meat|We ate meat
}}{{Interlinear|ka-ri-dy-i nyama|NEG-1PL-eat-PRES.HAB.NEG meat|We don't eat meat
}}
The present progressive uses the prefix si-/su-, the future tense uses tso-, and the conditional uses a-tso-.There are two past tense constructions in Comorian. <ref name=":2" />The first of these is the simple past tense, which uses the structure SM-Root-Suffix 1. 

The second is the compound past, using the structure SM-''ka'' SM-Root-Suffix 1. <ref name=":3" />
{{Interlinear|tsi-ka tsi-hu-on-o|1sg.NOM-PST 1sg.NOM-2sg.ACC-see-FV|I(sg) saw you(sg)
| abbreviations = FV:final vowel
}}