Wikiendi huu

Wikiendi hii,

Wikiendi hii sikufanya mambo mengi sana. Jana kulikuwa na jua sana kwa hiyo nilisoma kitabu changu nje. Leo kuna mvua. Nilikwenda mkahawani (mgahawani*) kusoma Kiswahili na kunywa kahawa. Rafiki yangu ambaye nilisoma naye **chuoni** Edinburgh alikuja (aliwasili) Geneva leo. Nilifurahi sana kumuona kwa sababu ilikuwa ni mwaka mmoja tangu tumeonana. Yeye anatokea Hungaria lakini anafanya kazi Uskoti. Hivi sasa ni mjamzito.

Hello Kiwi_rach,

Your Swahili is quite impressive. But just to shine some light on a few mistakes on your original notebook post, the most important ones anyway:

1. 'sikufanya' is the negation of 'nilifanya'. So while 'nilifanya' means 'I did', 'sikufanya' is the opposite of that, meaning 'I did not'

2. 'ilikuwa' means 'it was' but ' kulikuwa' means 'there was'. So while in English the weather is described as 'it was sunny, it was etc..' in Swahili we say 'there was..' instead. So 'kulikuwa na jua kali' which translated to English would be 'it was very sunny' but quite literally means 'there was a hot sun'

3. Mgahawa/mkahawa- They are both correct but just know that 'mgahawa' is used much much more than 'mkahawa'. Just so you don't get confused.

4. Ana mimba vs Ni mjamzito: The former is deemed not quite polite or respectful when used for people. It can however be just used in a kind of very informal fashion. Also mostly for animals. While they both correctly translate as 'she is pregnant', the *context of saying 'ni mjamzito' is deemed more appropriate as it means 'she is expecting'.

Endelea kujifunza. Kila la kheri! :D

Asumile.

Wikiendi huu

Wikiendi hii

Jana kulikuwa na jua nyingi kwa hivyo nilisoma kitabu changu nje.Leo kuna mvua.Nilikwenda mkahawa kusoma Kiswahili na kunywa kahawa.Rafiki yangu ambaye nilisoma naye chuoni Edinburgh aliwasili kutoka Geneva leo.Nilifurahi sana kumuona kwa sababu ilikuwa mwaka mmoja tangu tuonane.Yeye anatoka Hungaria lakini anafanya kazi Uskoti.Sasa ana mimba.

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