"Jamila anafua nguo."

Translation: Jamila washes clothes.

[DiegoJaviUnlam]

Verb (-fua)

-fua (infinitive kufua)

1) to beat (against); to launder

2) to husk

3) to forge

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

[Ollie-Benson]

Thanks!

Put 2 ## signs at the front of the sentence/word to make it bolder/a heading, in case anyone wanted to know. :-)

[Aria487]

This name also exists in Arabic, جميلة /Jamila/ (or it can be read /Jamilat/ in context), and is female nominative case, meaning "beautiful".

[John00625]

Yes, Swahili has lots of Arabic loan words and names :)

[PlasoMathe]

I wrote "Jamila is washing the clothes" and it says it's not correct.

[AGreatUserName]

Did you report it?

[FrankNsabi]

That's how I also think

[phb2013]

Can the Swahili words for "washing" and "cleaning" be used as synonyms - as in cleaning/washing the bucket, and cleaning/washing clothes?

[ElMeuNom]

I believe kufua is always for washing clothes.

[piguy3]

"kufua" does seem to refer to a specific method of washing, but it also has other meanings: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fua#Swahili

[JudithJane]

I answered "Jamila is cleaning clothes" and they did not accept cleaning.

[JurekKolas]

How come ANAFUA is she washes but NANAFAGIA is I am sweeping (in the previous question)?

[piguy3]

Would this also be the standard translation for "Jamila does (the) laundry"?

EDIT: "to do laundry" is accepted for "kufua nguo," so I'm thinking the answer is "yes" and have reported it

[CeeCeeSong]

what is the "pl" tile that keeps coming up?? It hasn't been used yet, but it's been there lots of times. I'm confused!

[Ollie-Benson]

I think that's for "plural" = "pl". You can just ignore it.

[Mht.be]

Can we just leave Jamila and her mother alone ?
It's all so gender normative and that shouldn't be how we learn a language...