"See you later Emilian"

Translation: Tutaonana baadaye Emilian

[RudolfJan]

Tutaonana. Whe I first saw it, I had a lot of trouble remembering it all.
Now I understand what it really means.
ona comes from kuona, to see
Ta is the future tense
So Tutaona= we will see
The -na suffix representes reciprocal= each other
Awesome to understand a bit of the Kiswahili grammar.

[TyrionLee]

What about "Baadaye Emilian"?

[RinnyJ]

It seems like they make the distinction between "later" and "see you later".

[Maike207809]

Baadaye Emilian was accepted when i put it in.

[CeeCy47]

That means later Emilian

[pablopublico]

"-onana" ("to see each other, meet") is the reciprocal form of "-ona" (to see; to feel), from Proto-Bantu *-bóna ("to see; to find" [Phuthi and Swazi "-bóna"; Xhosa and Zulu "-bôna"]).

[josedopatrocinio]

Thanks

[roggling]

What is the difference between tutaonana baadaye and tutaonana tena?

[RudolfJan]

baadaye=later
tena=again

[ph.9gjp8N]

So Badaaye is just "later" and Tutoanana is "see you later." Cool!

[Onyut]

I need to practice speaking Kiswahili with someone.Thanks

[9zcthOq9]

Does anyone else not have the pronunciation for this? I'd love to know how to pronounce it.

[Reggie_Law]

Glad to see "tuonane baadaye" is accepted as well.