Comments on: Request for Swahili native speakers http://learnswahili.net/request-for-swahili-native-speakers/ Learn Swahili Language Thu, 10 Mar 2011 02:14:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: lamek http://learnswahili.net/request-for-swahili-native-speakers/comment-page-1/#comment-512 lamek Tue, 04 Nov 2008 01:55:09 +0000 http://learnswahili.net/request-for-swahili-native-speakers/#comment-512 hi groeg, am from kenya n i think i can b of some help. 1n 2 r correct bt the third one is wrong. it translates into Halima can b read! it is either halima reads the bk (1)or the bk can b read(2). 5 means the ship can b sunk n is therfore correct. "meli zinazamishwa" means the ship are being sunk. 7 is similar to no. three. while someone can sleep(6), a person can't b slept so 7 is wrong. Njumba is a word for a big house, a bangalow, while nyumba is used for a normal house. "ungua" is more appropriate in this case than "waka" which means "alight". Both 9(house is on fire) and 10(house is burning) are correct. that word order, where the subject comes last, is acceptable in swahili bt it is very tricky n has a lot of exceptions that even natives do struggle with it. avoid it if u can n just stick to the simple subject-verb order! in the examples u have given u r talking abt a place so "pa" should b used which means 11 n 13 r correct bt 12 n 14 r wrong. in case of a two-word sentence of a verb n a subject, in almost all cases the verb comes last which means 15, 16 n 17 r all wrong. 18(it is accessible),19(it is openable)n 21(it can b slept on) r correct . 20 simply means "it is sleeping". hi groeg,
am from kenya n i think i can b of some help.
1n 2 r correct bt the third one is wrong. it translates into Halima can b read! it is either halima reads the bk (1)or the bk can b read(2).
5 means the ship can b sunk n is therfore correct. “meli zinazamishwa” means the ship are being sunk.
7 is similar to no. three. while someone can sleep(6), a person can’t b slept so 7 is wrong.
Njumba is a word for a big house, a bangalow, while nyumba is used for a normal house. “ungua” is more appropriate in this case than “waka” which means “alight”. Both 9(house is on fire) and 10(house is burning) are correct.
that word order, where the subject comes last, is acceptable in swahili bt it is very tricky n has a lot of exceptions that even natives do struggle with it. avoid it if u can n just stick to the simple subject-verb order! in the examples u have given u r talking abt a place so “pa” should b used which means 11 n 13 r correct bt 12 n 14 r wrong.
in case of a two-word sentence of a verb n a subject, in almost all cases the verb comes last which means 15, 16 n 17 r all wrong.
18(it is accessible),19(it is openable)n 21(it can b slept on) r correct . 20 simply means “it is sleeping”.

]]> By: اري http://learnswahili.net/request-for-swahili-native-speakers/comment-page-1/#comment-511 اري Mon, 03 Nov 2008 18:09:59 +0000 http://learnswahili.net/request-for-swahili-native-speakers/#comment-511 Hi Groeg, Apparently, there are not many Swahili (native) speakers on this forum...try contacting them here: http://www.mylanguageexchange.com/Search.asp?selX3=43&selX6=1&selCountry=null&txtAgeMin=&txtAgeMax=&submit1=Search<br><b>References : </b><br> Hi Groeg,

Apparently, there are not many Swahili (native) speakers on this forum…try contacting them here:
http://www.mylanguageexchange.com/Search.asp?selX3=43&selX6=1&selCountry=null&txtAgeMin=&txtAgeMax=&submit1=Search
References :

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