Editing Chewa language (section)

===Object-marker===
An object-marker can also optionally be added to the verb; if one is added it goes immediately before the verb-stem.<ref>Maxson (2011), pp.26ff.</ref> The 2nd person plural adds {{lang|ny|-ni}} after the verb:
*{{lang|ny|ndí-ma-<u>ku</u>-kónda}} 'I love you' ({{lang|ny|ndi}} = 'I', {{lang|ny|ku}} = 'you')
*{{lang|ny|ndí-ma-<u>ku</u>-kónda-<u>ni</u>}} 'I love you' (plural or formal)

The object-marker can be:
*Personal: {{lang|ny|-ndi-}} 'me', {{lang|ny|-ku-}} 'you', {{lang|ny|-mu-}} or {{lang|ny|-m'-}} 'him, her', {{lang|ny|-ti-}} 'us', {{lang|ny|-wa-}} or {{lang|ny|-a-}} 'them', 'him/her (polite)'.
*Impersonal: {{lang|ny|-mu-}} (class 1), {{lang|ny|-wa-}} (class 2), {{lang|ny|-u-}} (class 3 or 14), etc.
*Locative: e.g. {{lang|ny|m'nyumbá mu-ku-<u>mú</u>-dzíwa}} 'you know the inside of the house';<ref>Maxson (2011), p.64.</ref> but usually a locative suffix is used instead: {{lang|ny|nd-a-oná-<u>mo</u>}} 'I have seen inside it'
*Reflexive: {{lang|ny|-dzi-}} 'himself', 'herself', 'themselves', 'myself', etc.

When used with a toneless verb tense such as the perfect, the object-marker has a high tone, but in some tenses such as the present habitual, the tone is lost:<ref>Downing & Mtenje (2017), pp. 143, 162.</ref>
*{{lang|ny|nd-a-<u>m'''ú'''</u>-ona}} 'I have seen him'
*{{lang|ny|ndí-ma-<u>mu</u>-óna}} 'I usually see him'

With the imperative or subjunctive, the tone of the object-marker goes on the syllable following it, and the imperative ending changes to ''-e'':<ref>Downing & Mtenje (2017), pp. 142, 145.</ref>
*{{lang|ny|<u>ndi</u>-p'''á'''tse-ni mpungá}} 'could you give me some rice?'
*{{lang|ny|<u>ndi</u>-th'''á'''ndízé-ni!}} 'help me!'
*{{lang|ny|mu-<u>mu</u>-th'''á'''ndízé}} 'you should help him'