"He is Dutch"
Translation:yeye ni mholanzi
February 22, 2017
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In the M-Wa noun class, the prefix "m-" is used with singular nouns, while the prefix "wa-" is used with plural nouns. For example, with Dutch people:
"He is Dutch." → He is singular, so you use the prefix "m-".
Yeye ni mholanzi.
"They are Dutch." → They is plural, so you use the prefix "wa-"
Wao ni waholanzi.
With the pronoun "you", things get slightly more different. It depends if you are talking to one person, or more than one person. Wewe is the word for "you". Ninyi is the word for "you all".
You are a child.
Wewe ni mtoto.
You all are children.
Ninyi ni watoto.