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"Tunaomba ndizi na ugali tafadhali!"
Translation:We are asking for bananas and ugali please!
April 6, 2017
14 Comments
vtopphol
14
That seems ok to me too. Only reason I could think of is that in this setting it seems like the polite way to ask for something at e.g. a restaurant, and the most natural way to do this in English is to use the phrase "we would like".
arembe1
176
We would like, or we ask for, or we request are equal in English and all work here - I used we request - either that was wrong or stiff porridge was wrong for ugali - I used stiff porridge only because in the immediately previous question that was given as the correct translation of ugali