"Ninakuja"

Translation:I come

February 23, 2017

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https://www.duolingo.com/profile/Drasher

Good to know that I'm still 12 enough to laugh at that.


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/BenConway6

I wonder if it has any double meaning in Swahili like in English


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/CharlesMun575650

Yes it does. Many don't know what you're asking, yes the interaction of Swahili & English is so much people will know...


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/DiegoJaviUnlam

The form "kuja" is the infinitive of -ja.

Etymology (-ja)

From Proto-Bantu *-jìja. Compare Zulu -za.

Verb

-ja (infinitive kuja)

1) to come

2) going to (followed by an infinitive, future, or subjunctive verb) /edit**

(See the affirmative conjugation chart in the link below)

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

**Edit

Note: Now we can see that the stem verb ja can be used as an auxiliary verb.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:Swahili_auxiliary_verbs


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/NaomiKamau

Ninakuja should be I am coming in English.

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