Wakati wa kuitumia
Siku ya Jumapili, unapohitaji dawa na duka lako la kawaida limefungwa.
Sentensi kwa Kiswahili (“Ninatafuta duka la dawa lililo wazi Jumapili.”)
Katika “Ninatafuta duka la dawa lililo wazi Jumapili.”, ‘-na-’ ya ‘Ninatafuta’ inaonyesha kitendo kinachoendelea. ‘Lililo wazi’ ni kirejeshi kinachokubaliana na ‘duka’ (ngeli ya LI).
- Ninatafuta
- kitenzitafuta · nafsi: ya kwanza umoja · wakati: uliopo (-na-) · 'ni-' + '-na-' + 'tafuta' = I am looking for; '-na-' ni sasa hivi
- duka
- nomino'duka' = shop, ngeli ya LI-YA
- la
- kihusishi'la' = of, kwa 'duka'
- dawa
- nomino'duka la dawa' = pharmacy
- lililo
- kitenzi-li · ngeli: LI · umbo: kirejeshi (-lo) · 'li-' + '-li-' + '-lo' = lililo, 'ambalo liko'
- wazi
- kivumishi'wazi' = open
- Jumapili
- nomino ya pekee'Jumapili' = Sunday, bila kihusishi
Sentensi kwa Kiingereza (“I'm looking for a pharmacy open on Sunday.”)
Kwa Kiingereza, ‘I'm looking for’ (I am + -ing) ni kitendo kinachoendelea, na ‘open on Sunday’ inafuata nomino.
- I'm
- ufupishobe · wakati: uliopo · nafsi: nafsi ya kwanza · idadi: umoja · 'I am' kwa kifupi
- looking
- kitenzilook · umbo: umbo la -ing (kinachoendelea) · kitenzi 'looking', umbo la -ing
- for
- kihusishikihusishi 'for'
- a
- kibainishikibainishi 'a'
- pharmacy
- nominonomino 'pharmacy' = duka la dawa
- open
- kivumishikivumishi 'open' = wazi
- on
- kihusishikihusishi 'on'
- Sunday
- nomino ya pekeenomino ya pekee 'Sunday'
Kinachobadilika kutoka lugha moja hadi nyingine (Kiswahili × Kiingereza)
Kiingereza kinatumia ‘am’ na ‘-ing’; Kiswahili ‘-na-’ tu. Kiingereza kina ‘pharmacy’; Kiswahili ‘duka la dawa’ (duka la madawa).
Mfano wa mazungumzo
— I'm looking for a pharmacy open on Sunday.
— Ninatafuta duka la dawa lililo wazi Jumapili.
— The one at the hospital is open all day.
— Lile la hospitalini liko wazi siku nzima.