Serge Obolensky, Debebow Zelelie, and Mulugeta Andualem

“ Amharic, the official language of the Ethiopian Empire, is spoken natively by perhaps six million people in a small but populous area of the country which includes the capital, Addis Ababa. A member of the Southern Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic family of languages, Amharic is steadily gaining importance as it picks up additional speakers through the spread of communications and education within Ethiopia. ”

“ Verb: Present Perfect 126 11.4
Verb: Past Perfect 127 11.5
Verb: Imperfect (Past) 128
Drills 129
Narrative 132 Unit 12
Basic Sentences 133 Note 12.1
Telling Time 136 12.2
Verb: Jussive 136 12.3
Verb: Imperative 140 12.4
Relational Affix /ıyy (ə) -/ with nouns 144 12.5
Relational Affix /ıyy (ə) -/ with verbs 144 12.6
Relational Affix /s (ı) -/ 145 12.7
/abro/ 'both', 'together' 147
Drills 148
Narrative 153 Unit 13
Basic Sentences 155 Note 13.1
Relational Affixes /l (ı) -/ and /- (ı) ll (ı) -~- (ı) llə-/ 158 13.1.1
/l (ı) -/ with Short Imperfective 158 13.1.2 ”

“ Postpositions /wisT/ and /lay/ combined with prefixes /b (ə) -/ or /i-/ 52 5.7
Suffixes /-iyye/ and /-iyyo/ to nouns 53 5.7.1
Definite Suffixes /-iyyew/ and /iyyewa/ 53 5.8
Numerals; Ordinals 53
Drills 54
Narrative 55 Unit 6
Basic Sentences 57 Note 6.1
Relational Prefix /y (ə) -/ 59 6.2
Verb: Infinitive 60 6.3
Verb: Imperfective 61 6.4
Verb Classification 63 6.4.1
Regular Three-Radical Verbs 63 6.4.2
Regular Two-Radical Verbs 65 6.5
Verb: Notation 65 6.6
Postposition /gar~gara/ combined with prefix /k (ə) -/ 65 6.7
Use of /k (ə) -...bəfit/ and /k (ə) -/...bəhwala/ 66 ”