Present Simple Tense

 

GRAMMAR  REFERENCE 

1. The present simple tense: form 

I  You  We  They	like    play	football
He  She  (It)	likes    plays

In the third person singular we add-s to the infinitive. 

Ne veten e trete njejes ne i shtojme foles baze  -s. 

There are some exceptions.When the verb ends in  -ss, -sh, -ch, or –o, we add es. 

Por ka disa perjashtime. Kur folja mbaron me –ss, -sh, -ch, ose – o, ne i shtojme es. 

      Examples 

miss         misses,  wash          washes,  catch          catches,  go          goes. 

When the verb ends in –y,we change the-y to –ies. 

Kur fojla mbaron me –y, ne nderrojme –y ne – ies. 

     Examples 

hurry          hurries 

Note  also: have          has 

Gjithashtu vereni  : have          has 

To make negatives we use: 

Subject + don’t or doesn’t + infinitive. 

Per formen mohore perdorim: 

Kryefjale + don’t ose doesn’t + folja baze 

    Examples 

I don’t live near here. 

He doesn’t work in a bank. 

Note: in negatives and questions we use the infinitive(‘live’ , ‘work’) of the verb.There is no –s on the end in the third person singular. 

Vereni: ne fjalite mohore dhe pyetese ne perdorim formen baze te foljeve (‘jetoj’ , ‘punoj’). Nuk  i shtojme foljes –s ne veten e trete njejes. 

    Examples 

She doesn’t live here.  NOT     She doesn’t lives here. 

Does he work here?       NOT   Does he works here?