"Ana upole mzuri"

Translation: He has a good gentleness

[Nertez]

What? Are we now putting random words together?

[Julianfshpearson]

The English translation does not make sense.

[vtopphol]

This sounds strange. I guess it's possible to speak like this if your name is Yoda.

[vtopphol]

On second thoughts, that would be "Good gentleness he has".

[5vZSXEt5]

Exactly, get your Yoda grammar right first!

I still don't understand how everybody in the galaxy speaks perfect English, except Yoda and Jarjar Binks. Maybe they learned it on duolingo

[5vZSXEt5]

Terrible English. On the other hand, if you translated it in a proper sounding way, ("he is a person of great gentleness", or sth like this) , nobody could ever guess the translation.
Duolingo is based on translations , which is nice and useful, but teaching common Swahili expressions that can't be properly translated is a problem

[EdwardThor2]

Come on, Duolingo, we know you're free, we know you're a great asset... but really...

[RBBusari]

Open your minds. You'll learn more!

[justlittlenikki]

Is it mzuri instead of uzuri because theres no u- prefix or because they're describing the gentleness of a person (which uses m-)?

[Karin313650]

No, this is not possible! Do I really have to write that in order to keep going?!

[RudolfJan]

You never would say this in English. If this is acceptable in Swahili, it should be translated like this:

He/she is gentle