-w(a)passive derivational extensionkulawwato be come out ofkupikwato be cookedkupikirwato be cooked forkusekezwato be made to laughkuhonezwato be healedkusolwato be taken / marriedkusoleswato be taken / married too muchkuzengwato be builtkuzengerwato be built for / to be used to buildOn some verbs the form is -igw(a), apparently used to break up difficult consonant clusters.In Chizigula, the passive suffix can be added to virtually all transitive, benefactive, instrumental, and causative verbs but also even to some intransitives -- if the meaning makes sense in context.
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