-pepetana (infinitive kupepetana )
to compete with another in a sport or game
2013 June 8, “Uganda yafufua safari ya Brazil”, in BBC Swahili [1] :Uganda sasa imesalia na mechi mechi mbili na imepangiwa kuchuana na Angola tarehe kumi na tano mwezi huu kabla ya kupepetana na Senegal tarehe 6 Septemba mwaka huu katika uwanja wa Leopold Senghor. (please add an English translation of this quotation)
2019 June 4, Pascal Kwesiga, “Four Nights In Zuena”, in pascalkwesiga.com [2] , archived from the original on 27 June 2019 :
Conjugation of -pepetana
Positive present
-na pepetana
Subjunctive
-pepetane
Negative
-pepetani
Imperative singular
pepetana
Infinitives
Imperatives
Tensed forms
Habitual
hupepetana
Positive past
positive subject concord + -li pepetana
Negative past
negative subject concord + -ku pepetana
Positive present (positive subject concord + -na pepetana)
Singular
Plural
1st person
ni napepetana/na pepetana
tu napepetana
2nd person
u napepetana
m napepetana
3rd person
m-wa(I/II)
a napepetana
wa napepetana
other classes
positive subject concord + -na pepetana
Negative present (negative subject concord + -pepetani )
Singular
Plural
1st person
si pepetani
hatu pepetani
2nd person
hu pepetani
ham pepetani
3rd person
m-wa(I/II)
ha pepetani
hawa pepetani
other classes
negative subject concord + -pepetani
Positive future
positive subject concord + -ta pepetana
Negative future
negative subject concord + -ta pepetana
Positive subjunctive (positive subject concord + -pepetane )
Singular
Plural
1st person
ni pepetane
tu pepetane
2nd person
u pepetane
m pepetane
3rd person
m-wa(I/II)
a pepetane
wa pepetane
other classes
positive subject concord + -pepetane
Negative subjunctive
positive subject concord + -si pepetane
Positive present conditional
positive subject concord + -nge pepetana
Negative present conditional
positive subject concord + -singe pepetana
Positive past conditional
positive subject concord + -ngali pepetana
Negative past conditional
positive subject concord + -singali pepetana
Perfect
positive subject concord + -me pepetana
"Already"
positive subject concord + -mesha pepetana
"Not yet"
negative subject concord + -ja pepetana
"If/When"
positive subject concord + -ki pepetana
"If not"
positive subject concord + -sipo pepetana
Consecutive
kapepetana / positive subject concord + -ka pepetana
Consecutive subjunctive
positive subject concord + -ka pepetane
Some forms not commonly seen in modern Standard Swahili are absent from the table. See Appendix:Swahili verbs for more information.