"Where is the death certificate?"

Translation: Cheti cha kifo kiko wapi?

[KathyKerns]

Why not .... ni wapi?

[9EatOXTh]

You know how in Spanish to be can be ser or estar. This is kind of like that. When talking about where something is you don't use ni, but you use -ko, -po, or -mo. More information here: https://www.duolingo.com/skill/sw/Locatives/tips-and-notes (Make sure Swahili is your active language, otherwise the link won't work.)

[SaraEltahir]

What is "Kiko" for? Why doesn't it accept "Cheti cha kifo wapi?"

[jmulrow]

The sentence needs an "is" to connect "where" and "birth certificate. In this case were saying "birth certificate, IT IS where?" Kiko = it is