"Mwalimu wa darasa anakuja kesho"

Translation: The class teacher is coming tomorrow

[Pietro_Gallo]

why anakuja and not atakuja?

[Joel158879]

Atakuja works too and is probably more proper. It's the same way we might say "I am coming tomorrow" which really means "I will come tomorrow."

[clh335763]

The former English sentence could mean that you are coming right now while the latter can't though; what are the tenses we label them as again? Is it because Swahili doesn't distinguish between tenses that strictly (it only has li-, na-, me-, ta- did I miss out something) and thus different tenses in English might translate into the same in Swahili?

[adammurad]

The teacher is coming tomorrow

[Ben837613]

And why aren't they here now?