Xhosa lemmas, categorized by their part of speech.

• Category:Xhosa adjectives: Xhosa terms that give attributes to nouns, extending their definitions.
• Category:Xhosa adverbs: Xhosa terms that modify clauses, sentences and phrases directly.
• Category:Xhosa conjunctions: Xhosa terms that connect words, phrases or clauses together.
• Category:Xhosa determiners: Xhosa terms that narrow down, within the conversational context, the referent of the following noun.
• Category:Xhosa ideophones: Xhosa terms that evoke an idea, especially a sensation or impression, with a sound.
• Category:Xhosa interjections: Xhosa terms that express emotions, sounds, etc. as exclamations.
• Category:Xhosa morphemes: Xhosa word-elements used to form full words.
• Category:Xhosa multiword terms: Xhosa lemmas that are a combination of multiple words, including idiomatic combinations.
• Category:Xhosa nouns: Xhosa terms that indicate people, beings, things, places, phenomena, qualities or ideas.
• Category:Xhosa particles: Xhosa terms that do not belong to any of the inflected grammatical word classes, often lacking their own grammatical functions and forming other parts of speech or expressing the relationship between clauses.
• Category:Xhosa phrases: Xhosa groups of words elaborated to express ideas, not necessarily phrases in the grammatical sense.
• Category:Xhosa prepositions: Xhosa adpositions that are placed before their objects.
• Category:Xhosa pronouns: Xhosa terms that refer to and substitute nouns.
• Category:Xhosa relatives: Xhosa terms that give attributes to nouns, acting grammatically as relative clauses.
• Category:Xhosa verbs: Xhosa terms that indicate actions, occurrences or states.