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the3lusive
925
If someone were to ask you where is the item, you could say "katika chumba". But if you were asked where you are, you say "chumbani".
the3lusive, I disagree - it depends on the whole sentence order - if you want to say "I am in my room." you might say either "Nipo chumbani kwangu." or "Nakaa katika chumba changu." but since the concordance changes, it can make it complicated (esp. with relativeclauses), so "katika" would often be preferred in such cases, even by mother tongue speakers.
DiegoJaviUnlam
1750
Preposition
katika
1) in
2) on; upon
3) out of
4) off
5) among
6) in the middle of (doing an action)
From Wiktionary:
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/katika
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:Swahili_prepositions