When to use it
Use it when booking a holiday stay and you want a pool and internet.
“I'm looking for a hotel with a pool and wifi.” · The sentence in English
In “I'm looking for a hotel with a pool and wifi.” ‘with’ attaches the features and never changes.
- I'm
- contractionbe · tense: present · person: first · number: singular · contraction of "I am"
- looking
- verblook · form: -ing form · "am looking for" is an action happening now
- for
- prepositionpreposition; "look for" means "search"
- a
- determinerindefinite article
- hotel
- nounnoun
- with
- prepositionpreposition
- a
- determinerindefinite article
- pool
- nounnoun; a swimming pool
- and
- coordinating conjunctioncoordinating conjunction
- wifi
- nounnoun
“Ninatafuta hoteli yenye bwawa la kuogelea na wifi.” · The sentence in Swahili
In “Ninatafuta hoteli yenye bwawa la kuogelea na wifi.” ‘yenye’ (having) starts with ‘y-’ to agree with ‘hoteli’. ‘bwawa la kuogelea’ (pool for swimming) is a swimming pool.
- Ninatafuta
- verbtafuta · person: 1st singular · tense: present (-na-) · still choosing a hotel
- hoteli
- noun'hotel', N class
- yenye
- preposition'having, with'; y- agrees with hoteli
- bwawa
- noun'pond, pool'
- la
- preposition'of', for bwawa
- kuogelea
- verbogelea · form: infinitive (ku-) · 'to swim'; bwawa la kuogelea = swimming pool
- na
- coordinating conjunction'and'
- wifi
- noun'wifi', from English
What changes from one language to the other · English × Swahili
English ‘with’ is fixed; Swahili ‘yenye’ changes by noun class, and there are no articles.
Example conversation
— Ninatafuta hoteli yenye bwawa la kuogelea na wifi.
— I'm looking for a hotel with a pool and wifi.
— Hoteli hizi mbili za pwani zina vyote viwili.
— These two on the coast have both.