"Tunazoea kucheza"

Translation: We are getting used to playing

[Garry917152]

I had "We get used to dancing." I thought dancing and playing were the same word. Am I missing something here?

[SilasWolfe]

nope. not that i know of. might be an error. report it

[viviene285262]

Yeah

[DeborahvBeek]

Not native english. Could it not be We are getting used to play?

[Catriona28475]

No, it has to be "playing".
("Get used to" is a set phrase, usually followed by a noun or, as in this case, a gerund, the "-ing" form of the verb acting as a noun.)

[SeKu3060]

what if we wanted to say "we are used to playing", how would we say that?

[DesmondAllen]

'We get used to playing' is not accepted. How would that be written?

[DavidLamb53073]

Yes, I wondered the same thing. I have come across other sentences where only the present continuous tense is accepted.

[RockTombeuse32]

Yeah I'm going to need a little explanation from someone in the know here.

[brjaga]

About what specifically? Kuzoea means to get used to something, and here it's tu- "we" + -na- present + -zoea "get used to", and kucheza means to dance or to play.

[AGreatUserName]

Just add the name of a sport after it. Tunazoea kucheza soka = We're getting used to playing soccer. (Maybe they'd never played it before and it seemed really exotic in the beginning.)

[geert.barbier]

...to play should be perfectly ok for a habitual activity

[Justine189009]

My answer should be accepted

[DavidLamb53073]

You really need to say what your answer was, otherwise nobody can comment helpfully, either to agree with you that your answer was correct, or to point out a mistake you hadn't noticed that caused it to be marked wrong.