"Your name is Rehema"
Translation:Jina lako ni Rehema
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I wish the hovers on the English words showed "Jina lako" for "your name" instead of just "-ako" for "your" and "jina" for "name."
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It accepts lake and lako interchangeably, telling me I've made a typo. How am I supposed to learn the difference.. :(
(yes, I did report it)
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Put the word/s you want to hear in the search box of Forvo, e.g.: https://forvo.com/word/mimi_ni.../#sw If they have a pronunciation, you will hear it.
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Once it is out of beta, they should have added pronunciation. Swahili is a pretty phonetic language, so you shouldn't have too much trouble once you hear it a few times.
If the downvote was because you think it's not correct, then do some reading. I have this information both from my experience in speaking with friends from Kenya and Uganda, and also from different courses and articles. Here is a good one that talks about both Bantu languages in general and specifically about Swahili: https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/24561/1/gibson-variation-in-bantu-copula-constructions_OUP.pdf The part about copula dropping is on page 9.