| Nazali kosilisa yango | I’m finishing it |
| Esili | It’s finished |
Note that in the two examples, the word –sil– and –silis– are both used, two new words for our vocabulary, meaning to finish and to cause to finish.
In Lingala the word –silis– is not normally used with something that is inanimate. This is because an inanimate object doesn’t finish something, it itself is finished. Whereas a person could cause something to finish.