Chapter 20 Swahili
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| -cheza | play
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| daktari/ma- | doctor
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| dawa | medicine
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| fulani | so-and-so, certain; used when the name of a person is unknown.
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| homa | fever,malaria (N-)
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| jambo/mambo | matter, thing, affair
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| lazima | necessity, obligation
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| mpira/mi | ball
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| -piga | hit
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| -piga sindano | give injection (lit. hit needle)
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| -pima | measure,examine
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| pole | slowly, gently, softly, quietly (often reduplicated polepole); also used as expression of empathy or sympathy.
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| sindano | needle
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| ugonjwa/ma- | sickness (cf. mgonjwa/wa- 'sick person')
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| -cheka | laugh
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| ghafula | suddenly (also kwa ghafula)
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| hadithi | story (N-)
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| hamu | desire (N-)
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| hivyo | those things referred to, such things
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| -ishia | finish up (cf. kwisha 'to finish')
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| kobe | tortoise (N- animate)
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| -kubali | agree, accept
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| kuliko | more than
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| lo! | more than
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| -maliza | finish
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| mashindano | competition (cf. -shindana 'compete')
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| mbio | speed;race
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| mjanja/wa- | clever person
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| mwendo/mi- | way, manner of going,pace
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| -ona lo | be surprised, be astonished (lit. see, feel astonishment)
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| -pita | pass
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| polepole | slowly slowly
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| -pumzika | rest
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| samahani | pardon me, excuse me, forgive me
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| -shinda | overcome, conquer, win, surpass, pass (an exam),etc.
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| -shindana | compete with one another, compete
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| -sikia | hear
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| -sikiliza | listen
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| sungura | hare
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| -tangulia | go first
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| taratibu | order, orderliness, care, carefulness
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| usingizi | sleep (noun; often used fater the berb -lala 'sleep')
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