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English to Swahili
Translating words and phrases from English into the Swahili language of East Africa.
714 Questions
What does friendly mean in Swahili?
Correction; mwema is a form of the adjective -emameaning good or nice . The mw- prefix is a singular form for a person or animal, so mtu mwema is "a good man." N.B. -- A Standard English-Swahili Dictionary by the University of Oxford gives -pole, -ema, and -zuri as meanings for "friendly" but they don't really have such one-to-one meanings in Swahili. A friendly person may very well be described as mtu mpole mtu mwema, or mtu mzuri, but in all cases they mean he or she is a good or nice person. He or she wouldn't necessarily be friendly, but might well be.
The noun mchamgamfu by itself can mean a friendly person: loquacious, happy, talkative, gets along well with people, etc. A friendly act would be kitendo cha kirafiki. He treats everyone as a friend, Anawafanyia watu wote kama rafiki.
Rafiki = friend.
How do you say thank god i found you in Swahili?
Asante mungu nimekupata wewe
>CLARIFICATION: The question is unclear: is the speaker thanking God because he found God or thanking God because he found another person?
If thanking Him for finding Him, the first answer is correct Swahili but not very idiomatic. The word wewe (you) is not needed (you as object is contained in the verb), and a Swahili-speaker would almost never use it except for particular emphasis. Second, although Ahsante, Mungu, is correct, it is more likely that a person would say in prayer "Nakushukuru, Mungum kwamba nimekupata. It's even more likely that a person would say God found him, so: Nakushuru, Mungu, kwamba umenipata.
If for finding a person, it would be Namshukuru Mungu nimekupata (there are several verbs that might be used here: Namshukuru Mungu nimekuona, tumekuonana, nimekukuta, tumekutana).
How do you say splat in Swahili?
"Splat" is an onomonopoeic word describing the sound something, say a human head, makes upon smacking the pavement after a fall from the 75th floor. The head would make the same sound in Swahili.
How do you say 'I love you' in the four languages of Switzerland?
There's actually no such language as Swiss. Switzerland has 4 official languages: German, French, Italian, and Romansh. Please specify which language you want to translate into.
What is the Swahili word for thank you?
Ahsante or Shukrani. (Ahsante is often spelled asante but standard coastal Swahili spells and pronounces it ahsante. In the Swahili of eastern Congo, the word is aksante.)
People often use the verb kushukuru: nakushukuru(I thank you), tunakushukuru (we thank you). If thanking more than one person, it becomes tunakushukuruni or tunawashukuru. The form of the word ahsante also changes when thanking more than one person: ahsanteni, e.g., Ahsanteni kwa kuninigia kura(thanks to all of you for voting for me).
How do you say louder in Swahili?
"Louder" as increase the volume: Ongeza sauti (increase the sound), Tunaomba sauti kubwa zaidi (bigger, that is, louder, sound, please).
"Louder" as a comparative: A ina sauti kuliko B, A has more sound than B (loose trans.; a direct translation would be: A is loud in a place where there is also B or where A and B are the same place, A is loud; comparatives and superlatives are not as straightforward as in English and require some study).
How do you say thank you love in Swahili?
You can say "Asante, penzi" in Swahili to express "thank you, love".
How do you say pure in Swahili?
No single word. The adjective -tupu used means "only" in most contexts; it also means "empty." (chupa tupu: empty bottle)
Examples:
Maziwa matupu: nothing but milk, only milk.
Dhahabu tupu: nothing but gold, only gold.
How do you spell white in Swahili?
In Swahili and all languages using the roman alphabet you spell white w, h, i, t, e.
The word for "white" in Swahili is -eupe, which varies to agree with the noun it modifies. Examples:
White person, mtu mweupe
White people, watu weupe
White car, gari jeupe
White table, meza nyeupe
The English word "white" is often used in Tanzania as a nickname for a light-skinned African, e.g., Hu jambo, White? (How are you, White?)
How do you say welcome to our school in Swahili?
To one person: Karibu shuleni kwetu.
To more than one person: Karibuni shuleni kwetu.
The consonants are pronounced as in English, the vowels as in Spanish or Italian. The stressed syllable is the next-to-last one (the penultimate syllable).
How do you say 'best regards' in kiswahili?
In Swahili, you can say "salamu za dhati" to mean 'best regards'.
What does the word wa mean in Swahili?
"wa" is a prefix in Swahili used to indicate plural possessive. It is typically added to nouns to show that they belong to multiple people.
How do you write thirty in Swahili?
Thirty is written with a 3 and a 0, or T-H-E-L-A-T-H-I-N-I.
Thirty = Thelathini (30)
What dowecall an oasis in Swahili?
One British Swahili expert Alhajj Suddy Kigamba mentioned Oasis as Chimbe or chimbu or Ngama in southern dialects
