"Misumari yangu"

Translation: My nails

[finndj]

What kind of nails are these? Are they the nails you hammer in, or the ones on your fingers?

[bwana-b]

Nail that you hammer. (Finger) nail is ucha, plural kucha.

[AGreatUserName]

Am I have a brain freeze? What noun class uses "k" for the plural?

[DiegoJaviUnlam]

Here is kucha:

Noun

ukucha (u class, plural kucha)

1) nail (fingernail or toenail)

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

[AGreatUserName]

Ah. That makes a lot more sense. Do you know if some people shorten the singular to "ucha" or if bwana-b made a typo?

[DiegoJaviUnlam]

I think some words are shortened (perhaps if there is no confusion with the word meaning when people use them in colloquial conversations), but I do not know if this is that case.

[juju633416]

Hammer

[nahuatl1939]

where can i find the declensions of the possesives ? langu - wangu - yangu - lake - wake - wako - wenu etc ? thanks

[TseDanylo]

Is msumari the singular?

[calliopecrashed]

According to the notes on the lesson page, yep. Google translate also confirms it.

[bwana-b]

Yes, almost 100% when something is mi- in the plural it is m- in singular.

[danielmokmad]

The only exception is that some words are mw- in the singular and mi- in the plural, but that's only when there's a vowel (e.g. mwavuli and miavuli, or umbrella/umbrellas)

[MugodaSimo]

But why is "yangu" used here not "wangu"

[JediJian]

It is plural: My nails (yangu), my nail (wangu)

[Bu22LightYear]

Wangu is plural therefore it would be our nails

Yangu is singular making it my nails

[maat_heru]

Does anyone know why plurals would taught/introduced before singular words

[ErfanRezamand]

Misumari is arabic loanword of مسمار

[JohnnyP.Co]

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