Verbs:Present is the 5th skill (assuming read left to right) in the language tree for the Swahili language on Duolingo. It has 6 lessons.
Grammar Notes[]
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Lessons[]
Lesson 1[]
- kucheza = to play
- kulala = to sleep
- kupika = to cook
- kusoma = to read
- kutembea = to walk
- kuamka = to wake up
- ninacheza = I am playing
- ninapika = I am cooking
- unacheza = you (sg.) are playing
- unalala = you (sg.) are sleeping
- unapika = you (sg.) are cooking
- anacheza = he/she is playing
- anatembea = he/she is walking
- anaamka = he/she wakes up
- anasoma = he/she is reading
Lesson 2[]
- kukimbia = to run
- kwenda = to go
- kuandika = to write
- ninapenda - I like/love
- ninafika = I am arriving
- unaenda = you (sg.) are going
- anakimbia = he/she is running
- anaandika = he/she is writing
- tunafika = we are arriving
- tunaandika = we are writing
- mnakimbia = you (pl.) are running
- mnaenda = you (pl.) are going
- mnafanya = you (pl.) are doing
- wanafanya = they are doing
- wanaamka = they are waking up
Lesson 3[]
- kufikiri = to think
- kurudi = to return
- kujibu = to answer
- kujaribu = to test
- ninafikiri = I think
- ninajibu = I answer
- ninajaribu = I test
- ninahitaji = I need
- unafikiri = you (sg.) think
- anarudi = he/she returns
- anahitaji = he/she needs
- wanafikiri = they think
- mnarudi = you (pl.) return
- mnahitaji = you (pl.) need
- tunajibu = we answer
Lesson 4[]
- kuja = to come
- kula = to eat
- ninakuja = I come
- ninakula = I am eating
- unakuja = you (sg.) come
- anakuja = he/she comes
- anakunywa = he/she drinks
- tena = again
- tunakuja = we come
- tunacheza = we are playing
- mnakuja = you (pl.) come
- mnakunywa = you (pl.) drink
- wanakuja = they come
- sili = I don't eat
- siandiki = I don't write
- sichezi = I don't play
- sinywi = I don't drink
- sipendi = I don't like
Lesson 5[]
- siendi = I am not going
- sipiki = I don't cook
- sihitaji = I don't need
- huchezi = you (sg.) do not play
- hulali = you (sg.) don't sleep
- hupiki = you (sg.) don't cook
- husomi = you (sg.) don't study/read
- hanywi = he/she does not drink
- hajibu = he/she does not reply
- halali = he/she doesn't sleep
- hapendi = he/she doesn't like
- hahitaji = he/she doesn't need
Lesson 6[]
- hatunywi = we don't drink
- hatuhitaji = we don't need
- hatupendi = we don't like
- hamlali = you (pl.) don't sleep
- hamli = you (pl.) don't eat
- hamchezi = you (pl.) don't play
- hamsomi = you (pl.) don't read
- hampiki = you (pl.) don't cook
- hawapendi = they don't like
- hawaji = they don't come
- hawafiki = they don't arrive
- hawaandiki = they don't write
- hawasomi = they don't read
References[]
| Swahili | |
|---|---|
| Swahili Skills | Introduction • Greetings 1 • Greetings 2 • People • Verbs:Present • Chores • M/Mi • Food • To Have • Verbs:Present 2 • Ki/Vi • N/N • Ji/Ma • Adjectives • Numbers • Commands • Clothing • Questions • U/N • Verbs:Present 3 • Animals • Shopping • Past • Time • Future • Past 2 • Body • Passive Verbs • Locations • Weather • Adverbs and Conjunctions • Object Inf. • Transport • Prepositions and Conjunctions • Adjectives 2 • Emotions • Demonstratives • School • Colors • Places • Conditional • Prep. Verbs • Medicine • Sports • Piga • Subjunctive • Spiritual • Politics • Reflexive Verbs • Science • Tourism • Causal Verbs • St. Verbs • Negative Conditional • Habitual • -Ka- • Conditional 2 • Holidays • Adverb Grammar • Relatives • Conditional Past • Comp. • Speech • Pluperfect • Participle • |