Amharic grammar

Amharic grammar is more regular than its reputation: a handful of patterns, reused everywhere. Each page below teaches one of them with real, reviewed examples — script, pronunciation and English side by side.

Verb conjugationAn Amharic verb is a sentence in miniature: who is acting, and when, live inside the word itself.
Past tenseThe past tense is where Amharic gets pleasantly short: the helper endings drop away and you are left with the root plus a small personal suffix — -ku for I, nothing extra for he, -ech for she..
NegationAmharic wraps a verb to negate it: al- goes on the front, -m on the back, and the verb inside slims down.
To be & to haveThe most frequent verb in Amharic barely feels like a verb: new (“is”) and its family sit quietly at the end of the sentence and make every description, introduction and question work.

More patterns — pronouns, the future tense, commands — are added as each new set of examples passes review.

Grammar sticks when it arrives in sentences

The free course introduces each of these patterns inside lessons — met in context, drilled with exercises, brought back in review.

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