"Jina lake ni Emilian."
Translation:His name is Emilian.
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"Her name is Emilian" marked incorrect. -- Shouldn't this be accepted? I thought Emilian must be a female name.
I'm sorry. I didn't noticed one of the contributor is Emilian mbassa, and he is a man.
Thank you Emilian, hope you don't mind. I fell into a prejudice bias. Now that I think of it, It totally could be a man's name :)
Later the hint was extented to "Emilian (male name)". Hence, the (word by word) translation of "jina lake" can be only "(the) name his" and not "(the) name her". (8-Jul-2018)
Also the correct answer from what I saw is just to type the answer again in Swahili. That was my mistake ^^
Technically his or her should both be correct as yeye has no gender associated with it.
Based on the "hover over" guidance, "lake" in this sentence appears to represent a singular or plural third person pronoun. Is there any clue given in the sentence (via spelling) that would indicate what gender the noun or pronoun represents?
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As far as I know, in Swahili nouns and pronouns do not have gender so there is no way you can tell the gender. In the case of our example sentence you will only know from the name of the person that they are male or female.
Just a note for the "hover over" guidance for Kiswahili "lake": It states English "his, her, hers". For "lake" these all are singular possessive pronouns with regard to the "owner" = "he, she" as well as with regard to the noun owned which is of the JI/MA noun class (like "jina"). "his, her" from the hint are possessive pronouns and "his, hers" are substantival possessive pronouns (in English:... is his, ... is hers). I'm not familiar with the rules for the direct translation of the latter into Kiswahili. (8-Jul-2018)
I'm kenyan and i thought i'd try this for fun. We normally say "Jina yake" not "Jina lake"
Her name is Emilian should be accepted us an answer "Jina Lake" could mean anything Between Male and Female Thus it is wrong for it to only allow "His name is Emilian"
how comes "Emilian is his name" is wrong? but in the "what is your name" the words were in the same sequence
So, in Swahili there are no diphthongs, but the origin of the name Emilian is in Romance languages that do have diphthongs. Are the "i" and the "a" in this name pronounces as one or two syllables?
Well, either you made a mistake you didn't notice or it's a glitch. If it was just a glitch, report it. Or if you think you made a mistake, explain what you did.
"What is your name" translates into "(je,) Jina lako ni nani?" (8-Jul-2018)
Why doesn't we use a "yeye" here? Perché non usiamo un "yeye" qui? 為什麼我們不在這裡使用“yeye”？ Wèishéme wǒmen bùzài zhèlǐ shǐyòng “yeye”?
Tafadhalini tumieni jina jingine, kama wataka kufwatilia hali ya kijinsia. Kwa mfuano Sauda, Janethi, Paulina(kike) Erasto, Wily, Chuma(kiume)
I don't even hear the "n" at the end. So I keep spelling it Emilia. But spelling someone's name shouldn't be required to learn a language unless if it's an Asian language
