2nd pers. waxaa + aydin + waxaydin
waxaa + aad = waxaad
3rd pers. waxaa + ay = waxay
3.2.1. The usage of the SP waxaa with or without a short subjective pronoun depends upon which member of the sentence is its logical predicate (rheme). There are two possibilities:
1) If the subject is a logical predicate it follows the verbal predicate, and a short subjective pronoun never joins the SP waxaa:
(264) Cigaal Shiidaad waxaa u soo gurgurtay xaggiisa wiil yar oo uu dhalay oo afar ilig oo yaryari ay u soo baxeen – A little son for whom four small teeth had just come through crept up to Igal Shidad.
2) If any other DFR is a rheme, the subject precedes the verb and the SP waxaa adjoins the short subjective pronouns obligatorily:
(265) Wiil-Waal wuxuu qabay dhowr haween oo mid uu dhowaan guursaday – Wiil-Waal had several wives, one of whom he had married recently.
Sentences with the SP waxaa and the particle weeye (var. waaye, weeyaan – see 1.6.4) are an exception:
(266) Niyadaydu waxaa weeye inaan socdaal ku maro Afrika – I want [lit.: My desire is] to make a trip to Africa.
3.2.2. If the subject is not a logical predicate (rheme) it adjoins (where this is possible) a morphological marker of the subject:
(267) Ninkaasi/u wuxuu damcay inuu iibiyo xoolihiisa oodhan – This man intended to sell all his stock.
The presence in a sentence of a substantive subject is not obligatory:
(268) Waxay tegeen magaalo kale oo suldaan kale uu u taliyo – They went to another town which was governed by another sultan.
3.3. The particle waxaa and the agreement of the predicate with the subject
The agreement of the predicate with the subject in sentences with the SP waxaa and the word order depend upon which of its components the sentence particle is concerned with.
3.3.1. If waxaa marks any member of the sentence besides the subject (the subject is not the rheme) the agreement occurs according to the “complete” type, which is characterised by the maximum distinction between persons, genders and numbers, as with the SP waa. In this case the normal word order is as follows: the subject/ waxaa + a short subjective pronoun/ the verbal predicate/ the member of the sentence which is the rheme:
(269) Odeyaashu waxay caddeeyeen in loo baahan yahay in nabad la gaaro – The elders announced the necessity of establishing peace.
An inverted formation of this sentence is also possible: waxaa + a short subjective pronoun/ the verbal predicate/ the subject/ the rheme:
(270) Waxay caddeeyeen odeyaashu in … etc.
The SP waxaa with a short subjective pronoun always precedes the predicate though not always immediately; objects, adverbial modifiers of time, place and so on can be placed between them:
(271) Laanqayrta Casi waxay dadka baahan u geysaneysaa kaalmo degdeg ah – The Red Cross is delivering urgent aid to needy people;
(272) Axmed wuxuu maalintii dambe igu martiqaaday tuuladii uu ku noolaa – Next day Ahmed invited me to the village in which he lived;
(273) Ardo ka kala socotay dalal badani waxay Moosko ku yeesheen shir cilmibaaris ah – Students from many countries have held a scientific conference in Moscow.
3.3.2. If the SP waxaa marks a subject (i.e. the subject is a rheme) the predicate agrees with it according to the “clipped” type. But in comparison with the agreement by the SP baa emphasising a subject, here a special form is retained only by the 3rd person feminine singular of all types of verbs (except the attributive verbs and the irregular verbs ahaan – ‘to be’, lahaan – ‘to have’ and la’aan – ‘not to have’, all personal forms of which are the same in the Present Tense):
Present General Tense