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Twakoze kazi.	'we work.' 'We worked...(sometime today)'	[hodiernal]
Naboonye....	'I see.' 'I saw...(sometime today)'	[hodiernal]
Nkoze....	'I've just done...' 'I did...(sometime today).'	[immediate]
Baasomye....	'They've just read...' 'They read...(sometime earlier today).'	[hodiernal]
Basomye....	'They've just read...' 'They read...(sometime earlier today).'	[immediate]

The hesternal or 'yesterday', tense differs from the hodiernal in having a tone on the subject prefix.

Choose the appropriate time expression, and state whether each of the following Verb forms is HESTERNAL or HODIERNAL:

Baáboonye ikí?	'What did they see	$\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\ \end{matrix}}\right.}$	(today) (before today)	$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$	?'	[HESTERNAL]
Baaboonye iki?	&nsbp;					[HODIERNAL]
Mwaariiye ikí?	'What did you (pl.) eat	$\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\ \end{matrix}}\right.}$	(today) (before today)	$\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\ \end{matrix}}\right.}$	?'	[HODIERNAL]
Baévuuyehe?	'Where did they come from	$\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\ \end{matrix}}\right.}$	(today) (before today)	$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$	?'	[HESTERNAL]

The immediate tense may be used in talking about the immediate future, but verbs that refer to more remote future actions are characterized by the prefix /—zoo—/.

State whether each of these verbs in IMMEDIATE, or (non-

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