"Sisi hatujambo."

Translation: We are fine.

[DiegoJaviUnlam]

Etymology (hatujambo)

Contraction of hatuna + jambo

Interjection

Hatujambo.

1) We are fine.

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

[PeterOnkan]

True, the word "sisi" is rarely used, though it's still correct

[dreifius]

And hatuna should mean we don't have, correct? But which part is what?

[PeterOnkan]

"Hatujambo" combines two words "hatuna" which translates to "we don't have" and "jambo" to mean "any matter" (which is usually in the negative sense) combining the two basically means 'we are fine'

[JordanOsr]

Why does this -jambo require the pronoun "Sisi," but the others can stand alone?

[Dalaryn]

It's used politely when beginning a conversation, but aren't used after. They technically aren't needed.

[LiveKindly]

Would the sisi at the start make the translation closer to "We're fine in ourselves?"

[Landofblacks]

Why is there 2 ways to say we are fine? And how am i syppost to know the diffrence?