“How do I make a complaint at the hotel?” in Swahili: “Nitawasilishaje malalamiko kwa hoteli?”

When to use it

Use it when something in your hotel room is broken and you want to know whom to tell.

“How do I make a complaint at the hotel?” — The sentence in English

In “How do I make a complaint at the hotel?” ‘make a complaint’ is verb plus noun, and ‘How do I’ opens the question.

How

adverbquestion word asking about the way or manner

do

auxiliary verbdo · tense: present · auxiliary that makes the question

I

pronounpersonal pronoun, always written with a capital letter

make

verbmake · form: base form (infinitive without "to") · "make an appointment" and "make a complaint" are fixed expressions

a

determinerindefinite article

complaint

nounnoun

at

prepositionpreposition of place

the

determinerdefinite article

hotel

nounnoun

“Nitawasilishaje malalamiko kwa hoteli?” — The sentence in Swahili

In “Nitawasilishaje malalamiko kwa hoteli?” the whole ‘how will I submit’ is one word, ‘Nitawasilishaje’. ‘malalamiko’ (complaint) is a MA-class noun often used in the plural form.

Nitawasilishaje

verbwasilisha · person: 1st singular · tense: future (-ta-) · ni- + -ta- + wasilisha 'submit' + -je 'how'

malalamiko

noun'complaint(s)', MA class

kwa

preposition'to'

hoteli

noun'hotel'

English × Swahili: What changes from one language to the other

Four English words, ‘How do I make’, become one Swahili verb, ‘Nitawasilishaje’.

Example conversation