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"Her name is Emilian" marked incorrect. -- Shouldn't this be accepted? I thought Emilian must be a female name.
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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)
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?
"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”?
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.
Why isn't he is named emilian accepted? I'll admit that it's klunkier, butt isn't it also correct?
Jina lake ni Emilian.
(name - his/her (Ji/Ma class sg.) - is - Emilian(male))
has only one translation:
His name is Emilian.
Anaitwa Emilian.
(he/she is called - Emilian(male))
may be the sentence that fits your proposed translation of:
He is named/called Emilian.
I'm kenyan and i thought i'd try this for fun. We normally say "Jina yake" not "Jina lake"
"Lake ni" actually means "but". My mum is Kenyan and told me that it is incorrect.
Tafadhalini tumieni jina jingine, kama wataka kufwatilia hali ya kijinsia. Kwa mfuano Sauda, Janethi, Paulina(kike) Erasto, Wily, Chuma(kiume)
