Morphology 1
English nouns
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boy, boys
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boy's; boys'
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box, boxes; loss, losses
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party, parties
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child, children; foot, feet; sheep, sheep
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index, indices; automaton, automata
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bad, badness; develop, development; love, lover
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child, childhood; friend, friendship
Inflectional and derivational morphology
Swahili nouns
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mtu 'man', watu 'men'; mnyama 'animal', wanyama 'animals'; Mwingereza 'British person', Waingereza 'British people'
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mti 'tree', miti 'trees'; mji 'town', miji 'towns'
, mwezi 'moon, month', miezi 'moons, months'
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kiti 'chair', viti 'chairs'; kisu 'knife', visu 'knives';
chumba 'room', vyumba 'rooms'
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jicho 'eye', macho 'eyes'; sanduku 'box', masanduku 'boxes'
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simu 'telephone', 'telephones'; paka 'cat', 'cats'; nyumba 'house', 'houses'
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ukuta 'wall', kuta 'walls'; uma 'fork', nyuma 'forks'
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nyumbani 'in/at house', mjini 'in/at town' (but not mijini 'in/at towns' or with other plurals)
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mbaya 'bad', ubaya 'badness'; kuendelea 'develop', maendeleo 'development'; kupenda 'love', mpenzi 'lover'
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mtoto 'child', utoto 'childhood'; rafiki 'friend', urafiki 'friendship'
Stemming
Morphological analysis
