Past participle: obdut; mobdi
Noun from verb:
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Imperative
Verbs conjugated like obda
Etymology
Borrowed from Sicilian obbidiri, ubbidiri and/or Italian obbedire, ubbidire, both from Latin oboedire. The Maltese imperfect tense looks like a native form, whence the Semitic (alternative) past participle. The regularisation of the past tense into *beda was hindered by the unrelated beda (“to begin”). See: Italian '
obbedire', Latin '
oboedio'.
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