"Hii ndiyo hadithi alitusoma"

Translation: This is indeed the story he read

[JamesTWils]

What is the function of the -tu- infix here?

[likes2hike]

-tu- is the object infix for "us." The translation should be the story he read "to us." Report it next time.

[AGreatUserName]

But wouldn't it then need to be the applicative form "alitusomea"??

[deactivated user]

Yes, it would.

[Joel158879]

yes

[JamesTWils]

Just had to get a second opinion that I was tight to report it.

[deactivated user]

I think the Swahili sentence has a couple of problems I will not go into here, but I have reported it.

[JamesTWils]

If you are going to come onto the discussion forum, you really should tell us what the problems you see are. If you don't want to, just report it.

[Arhelion]

Doesn't the verb need some sort of a relative pronoun: a story WHICH she read?

[Cognocto]

The Hadith is a Muslim text. Would the word hadithi be used in non-Muslim settings?

[Tyler171]

Yes, hadithi is used to mean story in Swahili, unrelated to religion

[JamesTWils]

Well, the Arabic word simply means tradition. Swahili is a lingua franca developed in the context of the Islamic East Africa trade, though, so it is filled with Arabic words having to do with Islam.