"Karibu"

Translation: Welcome

[DiegoJaviUnlam]

Etymology (karibu)

From Arabic قَرِيب ‎(qarīb). The sense "you're welcome" is a calque from the English.

Interjection

karibu (plural karibuni)

1) welcome!

2) come in!

3) you're welcome! (response to being thanked)

From Wiktionary: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/karibu

[ddbeachgirl]

Thank you for clearing up my question :) lingots para ti :)

[DiegoJaviUnlam]

¡Muchas gracias! I just hope everyone can find enough help with the vocabulary and grammar. I think repeating lessons on every unit is also a good method to understand better the grammar.

Here, a video with more useful greetings:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D71qoCSLNlo

Enda salama! (Go safely!) ;)

[ddbeachgirl]

Agreed. Sometimes I get the feeling that many want to blast through the tree as quickly as possible, but to really remember words, it has to be repeat, repeat, repeat :)

Also, gracias for the link, enjoyed it very much, and will look for more, particularly since the audio is still in process. The pronunciation of SW is quite intuitive, so missing audio not so much of a problem as other languages might be.

Asante sana! (Thank you very much)

[dcassevans]

Repeat, but NO AUDIO, so it is impossible to tell if we are.repeating incorrectly!!!!

[Luz857106]

Correct! I need to hear the correct pronunciation and I can't

[florentissima]

Thank you !

[Gazelle1596]

*Nenda salama. (Imperative of kwenda is irregular; just as kuja --> Njoo.)

[Drasher]

Where's the stress in "Karibu"? My gut action is to read it as caribou, with the first syllable stressed, but I'd assume otherwise it's stressed as kaRIbu.

[likes2hike]

The stress in Swahili is almost always placed on the second-to-last syllable of a word, so kaRIbu is correct. There are only a few exceptions, most of which are loan words.

[JustinRasm1]

Karibu means "close" or "near" so in this sense it literally means "come near." Its use as "you're welcome" (e.g. as a response to "asante") is a derivative of it's use in English and in many places other responses are preferred.

[Cocio_16]

Now I know I'm going to learn this language for real.

[TseDanylo]

This reminds me of a board game called "Caribou" that I played when I was little.

[grey236]

Reminds me of just Caribou in general :P

[RyanOkushi]

Yeah, it looks like it'd be pronounced like "caribou."

[BorisBreuer]

Karibu kwa Zombo.com.

[ClionaJoyce]

any chance this is also used to invite people to eat?

[JustinRasm1]

Yeah, "karibu chakula" - "welcome to the food."

[ClionaJoyce]

Ah! thank you

[ShitakiHero23]

Is the ch pronounced like charm or chem lab?

[JustinRasm1]

As in charm. Kiswahili is completely phonetic so all uses of the ""ch" will be that sound and the "chem" sound will always be a "k."

[Eric191568]

So whats the proper response for "asante"?

[WOUANGRE]

This looks like garibu in Moore (language of Mossi Men in Burkina) meaning beggar

[Aviasilas]

Still no sound