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This comprehensive book is intended for university students and anyone interested in learning Standard Swahili grammar as spoken in the East African Community of Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda. On completing this book, the reader will be able to read, write and converse in Swahili with confidence.
List of contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments and Dedication
1. About the Swahili Language
2. The Alphabet, Pronunciation, and Common Mistakes
3. Personal Subject Prefixes, Personal Pronouns and
Their Negations
4. Swahili Greetings
5. Present and Future Tenses and Their Negations
6. Simple Past and Past Perfect Tenses and Their Negations
7. The Swahili Noun Class System: M-/WA- and M-/MI-
8. Swahili Noun Classes: JI-/MA- Class and KI-/VI- Class
9. Swahili Noun Classes: N- and U- 81
10. Swahili Noun Classes: PA- and KU- and Noun Class Agreement
11. Object Infixes
12. Possessives
13. Adjectives
14. Demonstratives
15. Comparatives and Superlatives
16. Question Words, Phrases and Statements
17. The Verbs 'To Be,' 'To Have' and 'To Be in a Place'
18. Numbers
19. More About Swahili Numbers
20. Telling the Time in Swahili
21. Days, Months, and Dates in Swahili
22. Adverbs
23. Passive Form of the Verb
24. Stative Form of the Verb
25. Causative Form of the Verb
26. Prepositional Form of the Verb
27. Reciprocal Form of the Verb
28. Relatives-The amba- Relative, Relative Infixes
and General Relative
29. Relatives-Manner, Time and Place
30. Imperatives Verbs and Their Negations
31. -KA- Tense and Negation
32. Conditional Tenses: -nge-, -ngali- and -ki- Tenses and Their Negations
33. Additional Tenses and Their Negations
34. Prepositions and Conjunctions
35. Common Swahili Questions and Answers
36. Interjections, Idiomatic Expressions and Impersonal Subjects
37. Subjunctives
38. Diminutive, Augmentative and Collective Nouns
39. Direct and Reported Speech
40. Swahili Proverbs
41. Appendix: Important Charts
42. Swahili Vocabulary Dictionary
About the Authors
About the author
By Oswald Almasi; Michael David Fallon and Nazish Pardhan Wared
Summary
This comprehensive book is intended for university students and anyone interested in learning Standard Swahili grammar as spoken in the East African Community of Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda. On completing this book, the reader will be able to read, write and converse in Swahili with confidence.
