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Syntactically, Swahili is largely Verb complex-object<ref> http://www.nvtc.gov/lotw/months/september/swahili.html#stru</ref>. Because Swahili is an [[agglutinative]] language, the subject and verb combine through prefixes and suffixes, creating the Verb complex.
Syntactically, Swahili is largely Verb complex-object<ref> http://www.nvtc.gov/lotw/months/september/swahili.html#stru</ref>. Because Swahili is an [[agglutinative]] language, the subject and verb combine through prefixes and suffixes, creating the Verb complex.
An aspect of Swahili and other Bantu languages that may be surprising to speakers of English and other European languages is that grammatical markers (such as pluralization), are often prefixes rather than suffixes. Thus "kitu" means "man", while "vitu" means "men".