Chapter 2 Grammar

Question 1

How are things here?

Answer 1

Habari za hapa?

Question 2

Here are my grandparents.

Answer 2

Hawa hapa ni bibi yangu na babu yangu.

Question 3

Here’s my father.

Answer 3

Huyu ni baba yangu.

Question 4

This is my friend.

Answer 4

Huyu ni rafiki yangu.

Question 5

Welcome to my home.

Answer 5

Karibu nyumbani.

Question 6

I’m glad to see/meet them.

Answer 6

Nimefurahi kuwaona.

Question 7

I like Tanzania a lot.

Answer 7

Ninapenda sana Tanzania.

Question 8

Where does your friend come from?

Answer 8

Rafiki yako anatoka wapi?

Question 9

What is your friend’s name?

Answer 9

Jina za rafiki yako ni nani?

Question 10

Demonstratives in the M-Wa class: this, these, that, those

Answer 10

huyu, hawa, yule, wale

Question 11

This is Ali. That is Lela.

Answer 11

Huyu ni Ali. Yule ni Lela.

Question 12

Those are Ali and Lela.

Answer 12

Wale Ali na Lela.

Question 13

Here are my mother and father.

Answer 13

Hawa ni mama yangu na baba yangu.

Question 14

Those are children.

Answer 14

Wale ni watoto.

Question 15

Possessive endings: my, your, his/her, our, your (pl.), their

Answer 15

-angu, -ako, -ake, -etu, -enu, -ao

Question 16

Are these your children?

Answer 16

Hawa ni watoto wako?

Question 17

That is our teacher.

Answer 17

Yule ni mwalimu metu.

Question 18

Are these your all’s parents?

Answer 18

Hawa ni wazazi wenu?

Question 19

These are our friends.

Answer 19

Hawa ni marafiki metu.

Question 20

Her husband speaks Swahili.

Answer 20

Mume wake anasema Kiswahili.

Question 21

How do you conjugate the negative present tense?

Answer 21

(1) The -a ending changes to an -i
(2) Omit the -na-
(3) Add h or ha- to all stems except mimi

Question 22

Conjugate kutoka in the negative present tense.

Answer 22

Mimi sitoki, wewe hutoki, yeye hatoki, sisi hatutoki, nyinyi hamtoki, wao hawatoki

Question 23

I don’t study.

Answer 23

Mimi sisomi.

Question 24

Why don’t you study?

Answer 24

Kwa nini wewe husomi?

Question 25

She doesn’t come from Los Angeles.

Answer 25

Yeye hatoki Los Angeles.

Question 26

We don’t like English.

Answer 26

Sisi hatupendi Kiingereza.

Question 27

I don’‘t like Los Angeles.

Answer 27

Sipendi Los Angeles.

Question 28

You all don’t sleep.

Answer 28

Nyinyi hamlali.

Question 29

They don’t live in Uganda.

Answer 29

Wao hawaishi Uganda.